I used to think drone surveys were just for show until a guy on a site in Phoenix showed me the data.

Saw a video where they used drones to map out a huge pile of gravel. They got the exact volume in like an hour, which would have taken a survey crew all day. The tech is way past just taking pictures now.

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kimw574mo ago

It's wild how fast this stuff is moving, makes you realize how much of our world just quietly got upgraded without most people noticing.

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paige1666mo ago

We did a stockpile check in Dallas and the drone data was within 2% of the manual survey. It saved us a full day of work.

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barbara_jenkins666mo ago

Wait, they can actually get real data from those things? I always figured it was just fancy pictures for the website. What kind of stuff were they measuring on that Phoenix site?

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