TOPODRONE Launches AQUAMAPPER – DRONELIFE

TOPODRONE Launches AQUAMAPPER Airborne Bathymetric Surveying Answer

by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby

At international mapping present INTERGEO this week, LiDAR tools firm TOPODRONE has launched AQUAMAPPER, a UAV-based answer for bathymetric surveying and marine building.  Bathymetric surveying is the underwater equal of topographic surveying, mapping the ground of rivers, lakes and oceans.  The brand new multitasking knowledge gathering gadget has been efficiently deployed alongside TOPODRONE LiDAR ULTRA tools for the airborne surveying of a Romanian freeway building venture to be able to present a digital twin of a scanned space.

The brand new AQUAMAPPER {hardware} integrates with different know-how to type a complete set of photogrammetry, LiDAR and bathymetry surveying options. Upon being mounted to a UAV, AQUAMAPPER gives excessive pace effectivity (as much as 14 km/h) and accuracy. The PPK prepared answer can also be suitable with DJI Matrice 300 RTK. The {hardware} will be deployed for a variety of use instances, together with an open sea bathymetric survey as much as 100m depth, amount survey and calculation of sediments, and periodic upkeep survey of storage swimming pools.

TOPODRONE AQUAMAPPER and LiDAR ULTRA have been deployed in an airborne surveying mission at “Autostrada Sibiu – Pitești, Secțiunea 2: Boița – Cornetu”, a European highway building venture. The venture seeks to assemble a freeway in one in all Romania’s most rugged environments, and incorporates 7 tunnels, 24 bridges and 18 viaducts. The drone LiDAR hall and bathymetric survey was carried out by Romanian firm GRAPHEIN TOPO SA to be able to produce correct maps and present data relating to terrain degree, buildings, roads, energy line networks, cadastral boundaries, and rivers. TOPODRPONE’s LiDAR ULTRA was deployed on board a DJI M300 drone, and was utilized to gather laser scanning knowledge from 100 – 120 meters above the forested terrain, protecting a 32 km lengthy and 400 meters vast hall over the course of 14 flights. On the identical time, AQUAMAPPER {hardware} hooked up to the identical drone carried out a bathymetry survey over 6 river crossings.

“The important thing benefit of the brand new bathymetric tools from TOPODRONE is the power to seize a riverbed with centimeters degree accuracy with excessive pace in absolutely computerized mode and with out utilizing any boat. It permits us to work in laborious to entry and shallow water areas,” mentioned Andrei Sueran, GRAPHEIN TOPO SA. “The identical drone provider can be utilized for each LiDAR & bathymetry surveys. The mix of an echosounder, GNSS and Inertial measurement system helps to get correct outcomes after knowledge put up processing.”

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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.

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