VOLUME CALCULATION BY DRONE

People who works in the construction, Agriculture and mining industry understands importance of volumetric calculation of materials and its directly connected to the success of their industry work.

 

ConventionaL Volumetric calculation:

Process is tedious which involves a detailed manual survey. It involves capturing coordinates, elevation profiling and 3D surface model generation followed by volumetric comparisons for each stockpile. This is time consuming.

Drone : Modern technique for Volume Calculation

Ideally, a stockpile would be something with an easy volume to calculate, like a perfect cone or cube. But in even in good cases, stockpiles are an irregular shape. In this situation Drone Mapping comes in role that captures all the irregularities. Drone involves two primary techniques namely Photogrammetry and LiDAR.

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Significance of Volume Calculation by Drone:-

• Rapid: Manual operations are very slow, subjective and time consuming on the other hand Drones can speed the process up to 10-times faster.
• High Precision: In single flight drone can record thousands of points within the area of Interest (AOI). This is similar to surveys climbing across a stockpile taking thousands of elevation points

 

• High Accuracy: Drone technology can achieve accuracy up to mm in all dimensions i.e. X, Y and Z keeping lesser time and safety, which is much better accuracy than traditional methods.
• Safety: As Drones operated on pre-planned missions so we check all the parameters before take-off. That avoids risk factors and hazardous scenarios.

 

• Cost Effective: As conventional methods takes more time and Manpower with machineries in comparison with Drone Technology which takes lesser time and manpower. That reduces total cost to half.
• High Resolution: Usage of Drone can achieve image Resolution upto 1cm that helps in generation of more detailed maps hence making analysis easier.
• Wide Area: coverage-Drones are capable of covering wide swath of AOI (area of Interest) depending on height of Drone.

• Easy Modelling: Drones make volumetric calculation of stockpiles very easy. As surveying takes lesser time also most part of deskwork is also automatic.
• Periodic Updates: Stockpile calculations helps in decision making about to extract or process more materials to fill their orders.
• Real-time information: The time lag between surveying and surface model generation is less henceforth making all calculation real-time.

Best Software’s for Volume Calculation:

1.Pix4d Mapper

2. Agisoft Metashape