Need to safely and quickly check the condition of a roof? We can help.
Surveying a roof conventionally using platforms or cherry pickers can be costly and a breach of the working at height regulations. The modern method of roof inspection utilises drones, which can provide exceptional data that you need from ground level.
Visual Perspectives work alongside building surveyors to undertake detailed surveys and provide high quality photos, videos, and reports. Our drone operators are certified to CAA regulations and carry £5 million insurance to put your mind at rest.
With over 1,500 surveying assignments under our belt, including thermal imaging, topographical surveys, 3D scans and models, and more, you can trust our team to pay attention to every detail of your project.
What Are The Benefits Of Using Drones For Roof Inspections Compared To Traditional Methods?
While traditional roof inspection methods have been the standard for many years, drones are becoming a more efficient, safe, cost-effective, and accurate option for rooftop inspections. Some of the benefits of utilising inspection drones are listed below.
Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys provide a safe and efficient way to inspect rooftops, reducing the need for scaffolding, rope access, or other equipment associated with traditional methods that can be costly and time-consuming to set up.
As a result, Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys eliminate the need for people to be on the roof or work from elevated roof platforms, which can be dangerous…and instead access the data they need with their feet firmly on the ground.
Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys provide access to areas of a roof that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to reach with traditional methods, such as steep pitches or high elevations, or features such as skylights and chimneys.
This enables our inspectors to conduct a more robust and thorough search.
Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys can conduct a roof inspection quickly, reducing the time it takes to complete a job. They can cover a large area in a shorter amount of time than traditional methods and are much quicker than erecting scaffolding or scaling the building using rope access to conduct a manual inspection.
Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys can save time and money by providing a more efficient and accurate assessment of the roof’s condition. They can also reduce the need for scaffolding or other equipment, which can be costly and time-consuming to set up.
Visual Perspectives Drone Surveys can quickly and easily capture high-resolution images and videos, allowing for detailed inspections of the roof and its components.
This can provide a more accurate and detailed assessment of the roof’s condition, and also offer a different and more complete perspective of the roof in one wide-angle shot.
For instance, this high-res image shows areas of this roof which have been damaged in a storm. This sort of record is beneficial for assessing the extent of the repairs and for submitting insurance claims.
Drone Site and Building Mapping
The Technique
Thanks to greater accuracy in drone navigation systems, computing performance and onboard photographic sensors, aerial photogrammetry by drone is highly performant and enables precision drone mapping, whatever the size and configuration of the terrain.
Easier and cheaper than using imagery from a manned aircraft, drone photogrammetry provides professional-grade material for aerial surveys and inspections, enabling centimeter precision scaling, and measurement of distances, surface areas, and volumes.
Drone mapping from photogrammetry also allows us to easily create 3D models that can be rotated over 360 degrees on all axis to achieve a unique point of view of the photographed buildings, artwork, structures, quarries, bridges, roads, etc…
Visual Perspectives frequently uses aerial photogrammetry to gain higher zooming capabilities for surveyors in need of high-precision imaging of the inspected assets. Many industry sectors are using drone photogrammetry, such as:
- Construction
- Agriculture
- Landscaping
- Roofing
- Insurance claims
- Solar
- Mining
- Energy
- Telecommunications
2D Drone Mapping Survey
To get a high-definition aerial picture of the area, allowing us to zoom in to cm scale details, we fly the drone at a low altitude (40m in the example below) following a pre-defined path, taking automatically pictures of the zone. This is the definition of photogrammetry. The application then reconstructs the whole area, providing an ultra-high resolution scalable picture available in GeoTIFF, jpeg, and pdf, las, xyz, dxf/shp, obj, rcp.
