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Austars Model
Advanced VTOL & Fixed-Wing UAVs | State-Of-The-Art Technologies for Unmanned & Autonomous Aircraft
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TEKEVER
Fixed-Wing UAV Systems: Modular VTOL, Long-Range Maritime UAV, Tactical ISR UAS
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Ascent AeroSystems
Compact, American-Made, All-Weather Drones Designed To Fly When Others Can’t, No Matter The Mission
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Volatus Aerospace
Drone Technology Supplier & Drone Service Provider for Public Safety, Transportation & Training
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Altus LSA
Innovative Turnkey UAS Solutions for Mission-Critical Civilian & Defense Applications
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Inspired Flight
Professional, US-Made Multirotor Drones for Commercial & Government Applications
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Edge Autonomy
Long-Endurance Fixed-Wing & Hybrid VTOL UAVs | UAV Payload Camera Systems | Power Systems
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ISS Aerospace
Autonomous Drone Design, Manufacturing and Operations For Wide Area Actionable UAS Intelligence
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Fly Dragon Drone Tech
Long-Range Fixed Wing Drones, VTOL Airframes, Tandem-Wing UAV & Sprayers | Ground Stations, Drone Generators & Drone Motor Kits
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Performance Drone Works (PDW)
High-Performance Autonomous Drones for Mission-Critical Civilian & Military Applications
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Xer Technologies
Heavy-Duty, Heavy Payload Drones for Industrial Inspections, Public Safety and Search & Rescue
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Cannon Dynamics
Customizable, Long-Range Fixed-Wing Drones - Twin-Wing Design Heavy Lifting Drones
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Phoenix Flight Industries
Innovative Hydrogen-Powered UAV Systems & Hydrogen Refueling Services
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Copterworks
Cutting-Edge USA-Made Helicopter & Multirotor UAVs for Demanding Industrial Applications
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Nearthlab
AI-Powered Autonomous Drone Solutions for Public Safety, Defense, and Industrial Inspection
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Arctic Horizons
Cutting-Edge Unmanned Aerial Systems & Counter-Drone Technologies for Government & Defense Applications
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FlyingBasket
Commercial Heavy-Payload Drones for Heavy-Lift Cargo Transportation & Logistics
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Alpha Unmanned Systems
Helicopter UAVs: Rotary Wing Drones for Maritime, Naval & Security Operations | UAS GCS
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Woot Tech Aerospace
Commercial Drones for Delivery, Surveying, Agriculture, Security & Mapping - Target Drones - UAS GCS
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T-DRONES
Industrial Multirotor Drones, Long-Endurance Fixed Wing VTOL UAVs, & High-Energy-Density Li-ion Batteries
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DeltaQuad
Fixed Wing VTOL UAV for Autonomous Mapping, Surveillance, Inspection and Cargo Applications
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WISPR Systems
Customizable, Industrial Quadcopter Drone for Aerial Mapping, Surveying & Inspections
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SwissDrones
Long-Range Autonomous Helicopter Drone for Inspections, Surveillance, Search & Rescue, and Monitoring
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CHC Navigation
GNSS Positioning & Navigation Systems, Mobile Mapping UAV LiDAR & Unmanned Surface Vehicles
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Black Swift Technologies
Autonomous UAS, Research & Inspection UAVs for Industrial Inspection, Survey & Mapping
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Acecore Technologies
Professional Drones, Quadcopters, Multirotors & Hexacopters for Cinematography, Survey & Inspection
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Survey Grade UAV & Drones
Topographic Survey Drones
Topographical surveys make highly precise measurements of both natural and manmade features within a given area, including water features, vegetation, buildings and asset stockpiles. A survey drone may use LiDAR or photogrammetry payloads to take these measurements, which are converted by processing software into highly accurate orthophotos, contour maps, 3D models and other outputs.
Drone topographical surveys may be used to plan new construction, correctly place new infrastructure and utilities, and calculate the volumes of stockpiles. They may also be used to aid urban planning and disaster management planning – for instance, a drone survey-derived digital terrain model could be used to simulate flooding or fires.
What is Drone Surveying?
Drone surveying uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to perform aerial surveys for a wide variety of topographic applications. Survey grade UAVs offer a number of benefits to commercial and professional users. They provide significant cost savings as they are cheaper than manned flight surveying options. Quicker and more efficient, survey UAVs can rapidly cover a wide area and provide real-time or short lead-time imagery for faster decision-making.
Drones for Surveying
Survey drones may be fixed-wing, single-rotor (helicopter) or multirotor, with each platform having its own advantages and disadvantages.
Multirotor systems are able to hover in place, providing greater manoeuvrability, and have VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) capabilities. They are usually limited to battery power, which means that they have short flight times and ranges, although it is possible to equip some systems with hydrogen fuel cells that boost endurance.
Helicopter UAVs share the hovering and VTOL advantages of multirotor drones and are typically powered by combustion engines, giving them longer flight times. They are however more complex systems that require more maintenance.
Hitec Xeno FX Fixed Wing Mapping sUAS
Fixed-wing drones usually have a longer flight endurance than multirotor systems, and so can perform larger surveys in a single flight and carry heavier payloads. However, they require a runway in order to take off and land, and may also need specialised launching equipment.
Hybrid VTOL fixed-wing drones combine the VTOL capabilities of multirotor drones with the longer flight endurance of fixed-wing UAVs making them highly suited to surveying applications.
UAV Surveying for Precision Agriculture
UAVs can be used in precision agriculture to capture data in order to analyse soil, monitor crop health and irrigation, check for the presence of pests, and many other applications. Specialised RGB, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and NIR (Near Infrared) sensors can be attached to a UAV to produce maps that aid farmers in crop management and decision-making.
