Wind Turbine Repairs and Monitoring
Wind turbine repairs and monitoring require large amounts of skilled labor, which makes it expensive and time consuming. UAV technology offers the ability to monitor multiple turbines continuously. They can also be used to perform repairs much quicker than human personnel, while ensuring the safety of your workers.
Agriculture
UAVs offer significant opportunities to boost agricultural operations, especially large operations. UAVs can help with surveying, mapping, seeding, pest control, deliveries and logistics. We have consulted with researchers from UC Davis to assist in large scale projects for grape growers that would have been too difficult or costly with terrestrial or manned aerial operators.
Energy and Construction
The use of UAS can improve energy and construction before the start of a project. UAVs can assist with surveying, 2D mapping, and 3D mapping to help you plan for a build long before the shovels hit the dirt. They also offer security, surveillance and monitoring around the clock and from a bird’s eye view to reduce your liability and exposure. Furthermore, UAVs operate in difficult environments that would put humans at great risk.
Parcel or Goods Transportation
UAV technology offers the next evolution in the transportation of goods. UAVs can physically carry parcels and goods over great distances and difficult terrain. They can also make sure that your goods arrive safely and securely. UAV technology has been used for supply chain management and to track goods on rail and on roads as they make their way across the country.
Smart Mapping and Thermal Imaging
Surveying, mapping and imaging in even the most difficult terrains and over the greatest distances, are simple with UAV technology. UAVs can be fitted with the latest sensors to render 2D maps, 3D maps, thermal detection, or a multitude of other images. We have consulted with government agencies regarding the 3D mapping of complex installations.
Pipeline Monitoring, Oil and Gas Security
Safety is a paramount concern for all energy projects. UAVs can provide around the clock monitoring on land or sea from the air. Whether your operation is offshore or in remote locations, UAVs provide a way to monitor and secure large tracts of pipelines, powerlines or other types of infrastructure.
Law Enforcement Applications
The size and scope of law enforcement operations are becoming more complex and challenging. UAV technologies offer opportunities for surveillance, crowd control, and planning to keep law enforcement personnel and the citizens they protect safe in the most difficult of situations. Law enforcement entities across the nation and around the globe are using UAVs to act as a force multiplier and maintain order over great distances.
Wildlife Management & Monitoring
Wildlife management and monitoring takes place over great distances and can require significant human capital to perform efficiently and effectively. UAVs provide the ability to track wildlife populations through state of the art surveillance technologies around the clock and in places where humans cannot follow. They also allow for intervention of animal and plant populations in difficult terrain at a moment’s notice.
Pollution Monitoring
UAVs offer the most sophisticated detection platforms available to monitor radiation and/or other pollutants that pose great risk to personnel, civilians, and manned aircraft. Each UAV can be fitted with the latest advanced sensor technology that can detect any number of harmful substances over great distances and from the safety of a computer terminal.
Wildfire Detection and Monitoring
Wildfires are growing larger and more frequent across the globe, stretching firefighting personnel thin and posing great risk to people, homes and businesses. UAVs offer the ability to detect and monitor wildfires in the most remote terrain. They can also be used in conjunction with manned aircraft as payload platforms to deliver the items firefighters on the ground need to be safe and extinguish the flames.
TV Broadcast Relay
UAV technology can help expand the scope, quality, and flexibility of live TV broadcasts. News organizations and government agencies can use UAVs to cover live events from safe distances, especially those events that are on the move. In Israel, Aerostar technology was used to enhance coverage of elections on Channel 2 and was used to monitor candidates as they raced across the nation in their vehicles.
Emergent Uses
The applications for UAV technologies and UASs are increasing by the day. If you have an idea of how UASs can improve your organization, speak with us and we can find a way to make it a logistical reality.
Fly Legal: Get FAA Approved, Improve Performance and Reduce Risk
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for the registration of all Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Whether your drone application is public, civil or model, you need to register your aircraft with the FAA. It is also important to understand the nuances regarding FAA, state and local regulations that keep your UAS program running in compliance. We can help you navigate these overlapping and complicated regulatory regimes.