Drone Surveying

Using an enterprise-grade RTK surveying drone, East Coast Drones is able to provide pinpoint accuracy, while mapping with high-resolution RGB. Our services include aerial orthographic mapping, digital surface model mapping, precision control mapping, multispectral mapping and aerial photography. 

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These services are invaluable when identifying issues you might not even be aware off. High resolution maps provide advanced details of your property, saving you time and money and monitoring events such as plant health, erosion, site inspections, asset management and map updates. In addition, having a birds-eye view of your land will afford you greater insight into how to better utilise your resource, which helps you make informed decisions and affect how you plan and manage your work site. 

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Precision Contour Mapping

Water management on farms requires accurate measurements of contours for diverting water flows, building dams and leaky weirs and for irrigation purposes. Autonomous drones can fly large areas with accuracies of 1-2cm in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions if required. The contour maps can be displayed by individual contours at any spacing or as a banded colour visual between contours.

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Aerial Orthographic Mapping

An orthophotograph is an aerial photograph geometrically corrected (“orthorectified”) such that the scale is uniform: the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map. Unlike an uncorrected aerial photograph, an orthophotograph can be used to measure true distances, because it is an accurate representation of the Earth’s surface, having been adjusted for topographic relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt.

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Digital Surface Model Mapping

DSMM represents the earth's surface and includes all objects on it. This can then be used for analysis of say the height of the vegetation and measure the variation in height across a grass paddock, the roughness of a wheat crop surface or difference in growth rates between varieties.