Construction, mapping and surveying

Managing Drone Operations in the Cloud: Watch Again

How breaking free of Word document templates and Excel spreadsheets will transform your drone operations management and flight planning admin. Overview: Whether you’re a solo operator just starting out or a large Enterprise business with a either a dedicated drone team or a dispersed group of part-time operators – or any size business in-between –…

GeoBusiness 18-19 May 2022

We’re much looking forward to seeing Members, Prospective Members and those wanting to know more about how the drone industry operates in the Geospatial world at GeoBusiness 2022. The event will be at ExCel, London, co-located with Digital Construction Week. Come along and see both shows! The show will be of particular interest to anyone…

CPD: Aerial data capture including deployment of LiDAR

by ARPAS-UK, in conjunction with Connected Places Catapult Learn about the practicalities of drone operations and how sensor-based drones can provide benefits to your project Surveyors, engineers and built environment professionals are faced with a growing portfolio of advanced technology, including drone-enabled sensors. In this online CPD learning session, Michael May, Operation Director at Flythru,…

Survey accuracy utilising drones – WATCH AGAIN

by ARPAS-UK, in association with Connected Places Catapult In this session, explore how using technology like orthomosaics, contour lines and point clouds mosaic images can be amassed and 3D models can be created. Drones seem to have the potential to revolutionise numerous areas of our lives, but today their biggest disruption is in the field…

Brent Cross Town introduces new drone software to improve efficiency of surveys at £7bn North London scheme 

Brent Cross Town, a joint venture between Argent Related and Barnet Council, is using Site Scan drone flight management and image processing software from ARPAS-UK Member, Esri UK to improve the efficiency of groundworks surveys and how it communicates progress of the new neighbourhood. The software is being used to create 3D point clouds, textured meshes, video and 360-degree panoramas,…

Surveying and construction sector showcases innovations from drones and sensors sectors

If you’re planning to get to ExCel, London for the in-person events at GEOBusiness and Digital Construction Week (24-25 November 2021), there’s a wide choice of drone related sessions and presentations to choose from. There is still time to register for these co-located events. ARPAS-UK will be represented by many members and the exec team….

Drones central to £7.8m plan to transform UK rail network

New funding for innovative work on the UK’s rail network has been allocated to help them become more efficient, greener and cleaner. The £7.8m allocation will be shared between a number of projects to help achieve this ultimate objective. As part of the announcement from Innovate UK and the Department for Transport, it outlines how…