Stories from the field
Customer stories, updates and background on automated drone surveying. How companies survey their own stock, earthworks and batches with AiroMap.
How a drone gets into a company
Buying a survey system is the easy part. Whether it gets used is the real question. How BK Ingenieurs took it up company-wide instead of as a trial.
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'We estimate it' is no longer an answer
What is on your yard was an internal number for a long time. Increasingly you have to be able to prove it, and that is not only coming from your accountant.
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Drone survey or GPS rover: they do not measure the same thing
A GPS rover is accurate about points, a drone about shapes. Why that difference decides which tool fits which survey question, and why you use both.
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What do you need in order to fly yourself?
The assumption is usually a pilot licence and a week-long course. In reality you need nothing under 250 grams, and one online theory exam above it.
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Surveying in house or outsourcing it?
Where outsourcing runs into trouble in practice, what surveying yourself actually demands, and from what frequency it becomes worth bringing in house.
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How often should you survey your stock?
Most companies survey once a year, for the accountant. Why monthly or even weekly delivers more, and how to work out which frequency fits your yard.
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How AVG surveys six sites across two countries four times a year
Six yards in the Netherlands and Germany, one employee, one day per quarter. How AVG surveys its entire stock, and why comparability matters more there than any single measurement.
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AP04 batch inspection by drone: making every inspection consistent
Why two samplers on the same batch arrive at different results, and how a digitally computed sampling grid and volume take that variation out.
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Surveying earthworks by drone: from baseline survey to handover
How a drone survey works on an active site, what you can measure in each project phase, and where the line sits between this and a surveyor's work.
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Stockpile management by drone: how it works and what it delivers
Most yards do not know exactly what is lying there. How a drone survey captures your stock to the centimetre, what it delivers, and when it pays for itself.
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How does drone 3D mapping work? Photogrammetry and accuracy explained
From overlapping photos to a measurable 3D model. What photogrammetry is, why there are two kinds of accuracy, and what to expect without RTK, with RTK and with ground control points.
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AVG invests in technology: a new drone for accurate stock measurement
AVG bought a drone and the software to go with it from MRR Drones, and now surveys the stock across all its sites itself every quarter. A real step towards stock management they can rely on.
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