Skyports Drone Services has partnered with HOCHTIEF to provide automated, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) aerial surveying
Surveys will take place at the Rheinbrücke Leverkusen bridge construction site, on the River Rhein, north of Cologne, Germany. Skyports is overseeing its drone missions from its remote operation centre in Madrid, Spain.
For the deployment Skyports has installed a fixed drone-in-a-box system at the construction site. Conducting weekly automated BVLOS drone surveys, the survey data collected will help HOCHTIEF to build a layered picture of how the build is progressing week on week. The bridge is currently under construction and is expected to be completed by 2028.
Skyports said that progress monitoring of the construction site previously was mostly manual and subjective. “Some drone surveys had been conducted, but these were limited, infrequent and required on-site personnel.”
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