Aerial view of an earthworks construction site with survey flags

Aerial survey · Mapping · Inspection

Ground truth, captured from above.

DRON flies survey-grade drones over your sites and turns every flight into measured maps, 3D models and inspection reports your engineers can act on—usually within 48 hours.

Flying for teams who build, extract and maintain

  • ARDENT CIVIL

  • Quarrystone

  • KELVIN GRID

  • Portwell

  • Tamsin Rail

  • HALVORSEN

  • Northcape Energy

  • Brakefield Works

  • ARDENT CIVIL

  • Quarrystone

  • KELVIN GRID

  • Portwell

  • Tamsin Rail

  • HALVORSEN

  • Northcape Energy

  • Brakefield Works

About DRON

We are pilots, surveyors and data engineers in one crew. We fly, we measure and we hand you a single source of truth for every site you run.

Certified crews

Licensed pilots and chartered surveyors on every job.

RTK precision

Ground control and RTK on every survey-grade flight.

Your formats

DWG, LAS, GeoTIFF, IFC and plain-language PDF reports.

Survey drone hovering above a quarry

Services

Six ways we put a sensor in the sky.

From one-off topographic surveys to weekly progress flights, every mission is planned around the decision you need to make.

Top-down orthophoto of quarry benches

01

Topographic mapping

Orthomosaics, contours and surface models accurate to a few centimetres.

Aerial view of gravel stockpiles

02

Volumetric surveys

Stockpile and cut-and-fill volumes you can reconcile against invoices.

Drone inspecting a concrete bridge pier

03

Structural inspection

Close-range imagery of bridges, towers and facades without scaffolding.

Aerial view of solar panel rows

04

Thermal & solar audits

Radiometric thermal flights that find failing panels and heat loss fast.

Building under construction seen from a drone

05

Construction progress

Scheduled flights that compare the site against design and last week.

Power line corridor through a forest

06

Corridor & LiDAR

Long linear surveys of power lines, rail and roads, even under canopy.

How it works

From brief to deliverable in four steps.

Drone pilot holding a remote controller on a construction site

01

Scope

We agree the deliverables, accuracy and schedule, then handle permits, airspace and site inductions.

02

Fly

Certified pilots set ground control and fly an automated, repeatable mission with RTK drones.

03

Process

Imagery and LiDAR run through our photogrammetry pipeline and a surveyor checks every output.

04

Deliver

You get maps, models and a short report in the formats your team already uses.

Results that hold up on site

±2 cm

absolute accuracy with ground control

48 h

median time from flight to deliverable

12.4k

hectares surveyed for clients last year

0

lost-time incidents across every mission

Selected work

Flights that changed a decision.

A few recent missions, from a port stockyard audit to a coastline we revisit every quarter.

Highway interchange under construction from above

Civil · Monthly mapping

Highway interchange as-built

Container terminal seen from above

Logistics · Volumetrics

Port stockyard audit

Eroding coastal cliff with a footpath

Environment · Quarterly survey

Coastal erosion monitoring

Earthworks terraces from a drone

Construction · Weekly flights

Earthworks cut & fill

Testimonials

What site teams say after the first flight.

“The volumes matched our weighbridge within half a percent. That changed how we plan blasting.”

Elena Marsh

Site Manager, Quarrystone

“We replaced three days of rope access with one morning of flying, and the report was clearer.”

Daniel Okafor

Asset Engineer, Kelvin Grid

“Weekly flights gave the whole project team the same picture. Fewer meetings, faster calls.”

Priya Natarajan

Project Director, Ardent Civil

FAQ

Questions we hear before every first flight.

Can’t find your answer? Send us your site details and we’ll reply within one business day.

Contact

Tell us about your site.

Share the location, the area and what you need to know. We’ll come back with a flight plan, a timeline and a fixed quote.

Hangar 4, Airfield Road, Denver, CO

We reply within one business day. No spam, ever.

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