Commercial drones in Aggregates
Accurate stockpile surveys from turnkey drone solutionsCommercial drones in Aggregates
Accurate stockpile surveys from turnkey drone solutions
Designed for:
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VOLUME SURVEYS
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BLAST PLANNING
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
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TERRAIN MAPPING
Significant improvement to Health & Safety
Data acquisition time & survey cost greatly reduced
LESS EXPENSIVE & MORE INTUITIVE PROCESS
FEASIBLE TO CONDUCT DAILY INVENTORY CHECKS
INCREASES SURVEY PRODUCTIVITY BY UP TO 5X
A faster, safer and more cost-effective way to manage your stockpiled inventory
Move away from an inefficient and hazardous surveying workflow to one that brings intelligent automation to the fore and takes all of the heavy lifting off your teams’ shoulders.
Deploy our highly scalable, turnkey drone solutions to accurately monitor changes in volume, mass, and ultimately the book value of your stockpiled inventory, all with your trained operator well away from hazardous areas of the site.
PERCENT MORE COST-EFFECTIVE
TIMES FASTER DATA COLLECTION
Why mining drones make sense for the quarry industry?
Traditional surveying methods include skilled surveyors clambering around hazardous areas of a site with expensive terrestrial surveying equipment like GNSS rovers, Total Stations, or 3D laser scanners.
The process is inherently dangerous, inefficient and not at all scalable for enterprises with multiple sites.
Conversely, our drone solutions bring high levels of automation throughout the entire process: from data collection right through to accurate computation of volumes and mass of any stockpile, meaning the process can be completed quickly and most importantly; safely! Cloud computing and storage means your IT infrastructure doesn’t need to do any of the heavy lifting and subject matter experts and finance personnel can interact with the data remotely.
Why mining drones make sense for the quarry industry?
Traditional surveying methods include skilled surveyors clambering around hazardous areas of a site with expensive terrestrial surveying equipment like GNSS rovers, Total Stations, or 3D laser scanners.
The process is inherently dangerous, inefficient and not at all scalable for enterprises with multiple sites.
Conversely, our drone solutions bring high levels of automation throughout the entire process: from data collection right through to accurate computation of volumes and mass of any stockpile, meaning the process can be completed quickly and most importantly; safely! Cloud computing and storage means your IT infrastructure doesn’t need to do any of the heavy lifting and subject matter experts and finance personnel can interact with the data remotely.
Drone solutions that deliver accurate stockpile surveys
A combination of precise global positioning of the drone, millions of pixels of positional data, and intelligent analytics software combine to deliver a digital 3D reconstruction of the surface of the entire site, including the stockpiles positioned within it.
Once the stockpile areas have been defined, the software takes the height of millions of points across each stockpiles’ digital surface and compares this with either a theoretical model of the stockpile base, or an imported surveyed base, to compute the volume of material in the marked stockpile.
Drone solutions that deliver accurate stockpile surveys
A combination of precise global positioning of the drone, millions of pixels of positional data, and intelligent analytics software combine to deliver a digital 3D reconstruction of the surface of the entire site, including the stockpiles positioned within it.
Once the stockpile areas have been defined, the software takes the height of millions of points across each stockpiles’ digital surface and compares this with either a theoretical model of the stockpile base, or an imported surveyed base, to compute the volume of material in the marked stockpile.
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Advantages of a drone programme
Improved data collection speed
Unlike terrestrial surveys – which require data point collection of each individual stockpile – a single drone flight captures the data required to model every stockpile on the site. Our customers have typically seen that robust data collection can be as much as 8X faster using our drone solutions.
FASTER TIME-TO-DATA
In many cases, quarry teams and finance departments have to wait for weeks to receive the results of a previous survey. Needless to say, stockpile volumes will have changed considerably in that timeframe.
With our turnkey drone solutions, users are able to upload their images and receive the processed data in a matter of HOURS, not weeks!
RICHER DATA FROM MORE REGULAR SURVEYS
As a result of dramatically improved workflow efficiency and intuitive operation, quarry managers and their staff can be trained to collect their own site data at a frequency that is driven by the business needs, not the availability of the surveying department or contractors.
REDUCED SURVEYING COSTS
Our turnkey drone solutions are proven to reduce the total cost per survey by over 75% when compared to an in-house surveying team using traditional methods.
This saving is even more impressive when a business is able to reduce their reliance on outsourced surveying.
Turnkey drone solutions for stockpile surveys
We recognise that Quarry Managers, Surveyors, and Site Engineers don’t have the time to research all of the elements required to establish an effective in-house drone operation. That’s why we’ve created our range of “Get2Work Survey” packages: turnkey solutions, designed to get you and your team up and running quickly and safely.
Get2Work Survey Pro
→ Three spare flight batteries
→ Skycatch Data Hub Enterprise
→ Solution handover
From £6350.00 + VAT
Get2Work Survey Advanced
→ Three spare flight batteries
→ Skycatch Data Hub Enterprise
→ Solution handover day
From £9950.00 + VAT
Get2Work Survey Elite
→ Three spare flight batteries
→ Edge 1 base station + Edge computer
→ Skycatch Data Hub Enterprise
→ Solution handover day
From £16,950.00 + VAT
Turnkey drone solutions for stockpile surveys
We recognise that Quarry Managers, Surveyors, and Site Engineers don’t have the time to research all of the elements required to establish an effective in-house drone operation. That’s why we’ve created our range of “Get2Work Survey” packages: turnkey solutions, designed to get you and your team up and running quickly and safely.
Get2Work Survey Pro - From £6350+VAT
Get2Work Survey Advanced - From £9950+VAT
Get2Work Survey Elite- From £16,950+VAT
→ Three spare flight batteries
→ Edge 1 base station + Edge computer
→ Skycatch Data Hub Enterprise
→ Solution handover day
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Download our Business Case For a Drone Programme whitepaper
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How RAWview can help you
Feasibility & outputs
An initial consultation, designed to get to the very core of your business objectives. We will help you answer the key questions:
- What current challenges you want to resolve with drones
- How you will get the greatest value from your drone data
- How your team will operate safely, responsibly and within the rules
- Who in your organisation will take overall responsibility for your drone operation
Drone technology
An exciting stage, and one where the concept starts to become reality. But, is also a point where costly errors can be made.
To ensure you are investing in the right technology for your intended application, we always explain the reasons for our recommendation, so you have complete peace of mind that the system we supply will always deliver the results you expect.
Drone Pilot training
We are proud to have partnered with one of the UK’s leading drone training organisations.
Our courses are now delivered on a company-by-company basis, allowing us to develop a training plan that is 100% relevant to the work you’ll be doing. Not only will your company and its newly qualified drone pilots be covered from a legal perspective, you can also rest assured that they will have gained unsurpassed levels of knowledge, as well as the practical skills required to fly your equipment with the greatest levels of safety and proficiency.
Finance
Through our partnership with Bluestar Leasing, we can offer a range of flexible and tax-efficient funding solutions to allow your company to spread the total purchase price for any period up to 5 years, meaning we can always supply our solutions at the time that’s right for your business, irrespective of budgetary constraints.
Product handover
Our product handover is a face-to-face installation service, where your RAWview contact comes to your site to setup and activate all the elements of your new drone system and show your team how everything works.
It also provides the ideal opportunity for your team to ask any questions they might have.
Commercial Drone Insurance
RAWview has teamed up with Flock Cover to give our customers access to a range of flexible Commercial Drone Insurance policies.
You can read our comprehensive guide to Commercial Drone Insurance here.
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Unmatched expertise
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Cutting-edge technology
Access to some of the most innovative manufacturers and software developers in the drone industry
Industry insight
In-depth knowledge of drones in your industry
Single point of contact
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Making it easy
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