Snow & Avalanche Monitoring

Measuring snow depth around a mountain can be a tedious, challenging job—but is a crucial part of predicting dangerous, often deadly, avalanches.

Typically, this requires manually drilling the snow, which means workers must bring heavy equipment to dig out room-sized cubes throughout the area being measured. Once the cubes are ready, the surveyor can begin measuring, then take the average of measurements from various areas to determine the depth. The cubes must be big enough to comfortably and safely hold the surveyor, and getting them set up is a process that often takes weeks.

Thanks to our LiDAR-equipped UAVs and Helicopters we're able to acquire all the data needed to create accurate digital surface models (DSM) to precisely calculate the depth of the snow.

Forestry

From health analysis and biomass estimation to inventory management, planting campaign planning and impact assessment, foresters are being increasingly turning to UAVs to provide up-to-date data.

Coastal management 

In many countries drones are quickly becoming the default method of assessing coastline. Their digital, comparable datasets are well suited to monitoring an evolving landscape, while their 3D point cloud outputs enable accurate volume calculation, useful for example when conducting beach replenishment programs.