After the invention of drones, aerial photography is no longer an expensive event for the select few. Nowadays, anyone can order this service from Culver Aviation. Our UAVs quickly fly over large areas, after which our processing team transforms the data into orthophotos of high accuracy and quality.
The first photograph of the surface of the earth from the air was taken in 1858. Practically at once this method of information collection moved into the field of service of military and industrial complex: aerial photography was used for creating maps and scouting.
But the military's monopoly on the creation of images of airplanes quickly came to an end. Already in the 1930s the technology was used in agriculture and geology. Aerial photography is used more and more, the more the range of possibilities expands.
Who Culver Aviation shoots for:
- Large agricultural holdings and farmers
The company provides surveying for the agricultural industry - identifying the exact contours of the field for space estimation as well as the surface area of plots with a large altitude difference.
We also provide the service of monitoring the state of the estate by means of NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. For this purpose the drone makes a flight with a multispectral camera. Depending on the set camera parameters the photo will show poorly sown areas, the level of vegetation growth, the center of fungal diseases. Monitoring will help to take the right management decisions.
- construction workers, geologists, archeologists.
These clients live a better life orthophotomaps - plans of the area, created by cross-linking photos from a drone. They allow you to identify the status and clear intervals of the construction / exploration / production area and calculate the amount of work. For example, by using aerial photography can be up to 10% accurate in determining the volume of materials that are located on the construction site.
- mapping companies.
Locality mapping is a reliable way to gather information about the area and objects. Thanks to Culver Aviation drones, large areas can be covered in no time.
- utilities.
Aerial photography helps in passportization of roads. This method of surveying locality allows to identify the condition of the cover and the territory adjacent to the highways. A similar terrain survey is used to determine the condition of pipelines and other long objects.
- forestry
Remote sensing allows effective monitoring of the forest cover. Forest reserves can estimate the area, find the epicenter of a fire or a place of an illegal virus infestation.
- Territorial communities and cadastral services
As in the agricultural sector, aerial photography makes it possible to clearly define the area of land and assess its condition. This is necessary when planning buildings or landscaping.
How does Culver Aviation
For monitoring of large areas Culver Aviation uses a self-developed UAV SKIF designed in a "flying head" scheme, for investigation of high altitude objects - the copters of their own design.
All the company's drones feature high-precision 60 MP cameras whose matrices are capable of producing images at a resolution of 1 cm per pixel. The images are so clear that it allows you to smell mushrooms in the cauldron or see the cracks in the plaster of the building.
For most surveys, this ability to work in such a way is not necessary. For example, the distribution capacity of 3 cm per pixel is sufficient for crop condition monitoring, 10-15 cm per pixel for map creation. That is why the technical parameters of the task, to the level of separation performance of the snapshots, accuracy and compliance with state standards, are changed depending on the purpose of the research.
After a survey of the territory and collected information analysis, the customer receives the analytical report in a friendly format.
Advantages of Culver Aviation
One of the largest fleet of UAVs in Ukraine. It allows you to quickly perform even large-scale surveys. For example, one aircraft can fly over 6000 hectares per shift, and a large fleet of these devices - to monitor areas of a hundred thousand hectares. Such a task is not possible for companies with a small fleet or operators who use only copters. Fleet also ensures that the work is done in time: when the equipment goes for maintenance, it is replaced.
The speed of information processing. This indicator is from several years to several days, depending on the technical task - the accuracy and quality of snapshots. Due to the use of airplanes in the field phase Culver Aviation shortens the time of aerial photography.
Ability to work by request. Unlike orbital monitoring of the Earth with the help of satellites, the aircraft allows you to get the necessary information faster. If there is a need to negligently conduct monitoring, you do not have to wait for the satellite to pass over the area.
Accuracy of information. Culver Aviation provides 100 times greater accuracy than satellites.