How Drone Road Survey Technology Is Changing Highway Development

Road surveying is an integral part of economic development, connectivity, and urbanization. With the growing size of urban centers and complexity of transport infrastructure, there is a need to use precise and effective methods of surveying during planning, construction, maintenance, and inspection of the road infrastructure. Standard road surveying could require considerable manpower, equipment, and time resources, but modern innovations allow doing it faster and much easier with the help of unmanned aerial drones.

Drone road surveying is performed with the use of unmanned aerial systems fitted with specialized equipment such as high-resolution cameras, GPS, LiDAR sensors, etc. All the data gathered during the survey can then be turned into various types of digital maps, 3D models, elevation models, and others.


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