NORTH ENGLAND POWER STATION SURVEY
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Power GenerationRegion
EuropeCyberhawk was commissioned by a major utility company to provide topographic survey data and volumetric analysis at a coal-fired power station in North England. The large site has numerous stockpiles of various sizes and materials which had to be itemized in the volume report.
Cyberhawk’s two-man team of land surveyor and pilot surveyed the site using a fixed-wing UAV. The entire area was surveyed in a single flight with over 400 aerial images acquired. Using advanced photogrammetric techniques we generated an accurate digital elevation model of the site. This allowed Cyberhawk to accurately calculate the volume of each of the stockpiles.
Our rigorous health and safety regime and flight-planning procedures were approved in advance by the site owner and Cyberhawk worked closely with local Air Traffic Control given the close proximity of a major airport.
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Surveying the stockpiles remotely provided a huge benefit to health and safety by removing the need for ground-based surveyors to work amongst heavy plant on this busy site.
A Digital Elevation Model (DEM), a detailed orthophoto (at 3cm ground resolution) and comprehensive volume report were provided to the client.
OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE INSPECTION IN THE IRISH SEA
Cyberhawk was tasked by a leading offshore wind energy company to carry out close visual inspections of its offshore wind turbines in September 2015. Cyberhawk was chosen due to our previous experience in successfully inspecting onshore turbines and our visual asset management software, iHawk.