Delair, along with one of its regional resellers, Frontier\nPrecision, announced that Wood has adopted the Delair UX11 high-performance UAV\nfor its work in site planning and asset management in mining and quarry\nprojects in the western US. Wood – a global leader in the delivery of project,\nengineering and technical services to the energy, industry and built\nenvironment sectors – is initially deploying the drone to do high accuracy, 3D\ntopographic surveys and materials quantification for mineral mining in Idaho\nand Wyoming. It is the first fixed-wing UAV Wood has deployed in the Western\nUS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor the scale of the projects we are performing, and the\naccuracy required, adopting the Delair UX11 was a logical choice. Its\nlong-range capabilities allow us to cover areas not feasible with other data\ncollection methods like hover craft drones or by foot, so it reduces the cost\nand time involved. It integrates well with our existing work flows, and\nfeatures such as the PPK function deliver additional benefits in terms of the\nprecision and flexibility required in challenging environments,\u201d said Greg\nMeinecke, Technical Services Manager at Wood. \u201cWe have received excellent\nsupport from Frontier Precision and Delair in helping us deploy our first\nfixed-wing UAV missions and are already seeing results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wood is deploying the drone in remote areas where its heavy\ncivils team is performing extensive excavation and site preparation for phosphate\nmining activities, a project covering more than 200 acres. Of critical\nimportance for operations is an ability to precisely quantify the volume of\nmaterials being removed to ensure a high degree of accuracy in planning and\ninvoicing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wood turned to the Delair fixed-wing UAV to deal with the\nscale of the terrain that needed to be surveyed, as well as the challenge of\ntaking measurements in an active mine site area, including the safety hazards\nof having personnel on the ground in rough terrain and around large, moving\nequipment. Flying at 400 feet above the project areas and often at times using\nbeyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight plans, Wood technicians were able to\nuse the precision data collection features of the Delair UX11 to acquire large amounts\nof highly accurate imagery that could be processed to generate detailed\ntopographical reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are able to get surveys covering large tracts of land\ndone in a very short amount of time, so it ends up being much more cost\neffective for us and the client. More importantly, we can provide the mine\nowners a great deal of confidence in the accuracy of the work being performed\nand the quantities of resources involved. In the end, everyone agreed on the\nmaterial quantities as the technology is very reliable,\u201d Meinecke noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frontier Precision worked alongside Wood\u2019s engineering and\nfield experts to evaluate the Delair drone, and ensure it met the firm\u2019s\nrequirements, including integration with other important tools the firm uses\nsuch as AutoCad, Trimble Business Center, and the Pix4D photogrammetry suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wood\u2019s team noted the ease of use of the Delair UAV,\nespecially given this was their first experience with fixed-wing flying. The\nfirm was able to train several pilots who specialize in different types of\nprojects, and expects to deploy the drone on other infrastructure, mining and\nconstruction projects around the US. The team also noted the Delair UX11\u2019s\nembedded global shutter camera as well as its PDK (post processed kinematic)\ncapabilities as key to ensuring greater precision in its data collection. With\nPPK, GPS data from both on-board and off-board systems can be matched after the\nmission, providing higher degrees of accuracy of the images collected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Delair UX11 UAV, introduced commercially last year, is\none of Delair\u2019s top-of-the-line drones. The fixed-wing drone is an innovative\nhardware-software platform that provides highly accurate images for\nsurvey-grade mapping, with on-board processing capabilities and real-time,\nlong-range control via 3G\/4G cellular networks or radio links. The platform\u2019s\nenhanced centimeter-level precision along with its efficient operational\ncharacteristics make it the most cost-effective solution for large area\nsurveying and mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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