VAP's Volume Metrics Drone Scan Services 

Unlock the power of Victoria Air Photos and Survey RPAS technology for real-time volume of your stockpiles or cuts in Victoria, the Vancouver Island or the Lower Mainland, BC. See Video here.

 No Land Surveyors, or costly ground laser techs needed!  

• > We can provide an extremely fast, accurate and cost-effective method to analyze volumes and provide timely reports. 
• > Our professional, survey grade, DSLR, RTK camera (ZP1) & RPAS (M300) ensure the best results possible for drone photogrammetry and Volume Metric Techniques. 
• >  We safely fly the drone over stockpiles and aggregate cones instead of sending a crew to traverse dangerous sites. See Video
• >  Site management can track their inventories and site progress faster, safer and in a more reliable way!
• >  With customizable inventory reports for stockpiles, we can give everyone-from production supervisors on site, to auditors at the head office the data they need to make mission-critical decision faster.
• >  Access 2D, 3D and DSM files on cloud based software for easy sharing and enjoy a high-resolution colorized visualization of the inventory.

 

Why Drones for Volume Metrics?

• Surveying stockpiles with drones is significantly faster and less obtrusive to daily processes than traditional base-and-rover methods. In fact, everything we do at Victoria Air Photos and Survey  is intended to make surveying workflows—and, thus, all earthwork operations—more efficient.
• The benefits of optimizing reporting and reconciliation operations aren’t isolated. We’ve found that, once our customers settle into a drone surveying and reporting workflow, they have more flexibility to start leveraging the highly accurate maps for higher-value analysis.
• Streamline every stage of a site's lifecycle, including  the reclamation process by having more relevant reports early on.
• In short it is easy to see the value accurate stockpile measurements and smarter inventory reporting brings to every corner of a mining or aggregate business. 

Accuracy and legal considerations.

• Get accurate results without the larger expence and wait times of a BC Land Surveyor company. Using our professional grade drone systems, sensors and RTK, we can obtain very high grade results. Data results can be measured, verified and tested with verified stockpiles to ensure quality control.

 

Summary:

• ► Using drones to calculate stockpile measurements makes it easy to compare your current stockpile volumes to previous surveys and track site progress.
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• ► You can also compare stockpile surveys to a final grade design file to calculate how much material you still need to add or remove.
  
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• ► With geo-referenced images captured by a drone flying above your worksite, you can use photogrammetry to generate a 3D map of your site with measurements accurate to 1/10ft (3cm).
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• ► Easy to use software means you can take a variety of measurements, including areas, distance, and stockpile volumes.
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• ► Using drones to measure stockpiles is quickly becoming a go-to surveying workflow for earthwork sites around the world.
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 Video on Volume Metric Workflows