Drones
Orbital utilizes a fleet of various types and sizes of UAVs such as Drones to support its engineering, construction management, asset integrity and safety services. Some of the applications for which Orbital has successfully deployed Drones to collect data in support of these services are:
- External Visual Inspections per FAA Part 107
- Bridges
- Stacks
- Flares
- Conveyors
- Roofing and Siding
- Transmission Lines & Towers
- Internal Visual Inspections
- Boilers
- Stack Liners
- Vessels and Storage Tanks
- Roof Trusses
- Buildings
- Bins and Hoppers
- Surveys & Topographic Mapping
- Storm Water Runoff Surveying
- Contour Drawing Preparation
- Containment Area Size Validation
- Stockpile Measurement
- Validation of Material Inventory
- 3D Capture
- Photogrammetry
- Dense Point Clouds and CAD Models
- As-Builts
- Environmental Monitoring
- Industrial Event Documentation
- Thermal Imaging
- River Erosion at Docks
- Leak Detection
- Plan Upgrades Based on Environmental Assessment with Drone
- Dispute Resolution Over Impact on Endangered Wildlife
- Right of Way Investigation – Vegetation Infringement
- Validation / Assessing Wildlife Impacts
UAV Inspection
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Inspections combined with Alignment Surveys of Crane Runways Orbital Technical Solutions (OTS) provided Asset Integrity Services with use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and survey equipment. The equipment was used to complete visual...