A comprehensive range of survey-grade drone services covering surveying, inspections, monitoring, specialist applications, and aerial media production across Ireland.
Drone work in Ireland falls into four broad buckets: surveys (capture ground truth data — orthomosaics, DTMs, point clouds), inspections (visual and thermal defect detection on bridges, roofs, towers, turbines), monitoring (repeat captures that track change over time — construction progress, coastal erosion, stockpiles), and specialist work (LiDAR, ROV, research, niche certifications). If you know your deliverable — a DWG, a GeoTIFF, a defect report, a timelapse — the right service usually picks itself. If you don’t, skim the four categories below and ask us to shortlist.
Three Irish-specific things to know before you brief any drone operator. First, airspace. Most of Leinster and the urban east coast is controlled airspace; flying needs prior ATC coordination and often an IAA Flight Authorisation under EASA Specific Category. A credible operator handles this without charging you for the admin. Second, weather. Ireland gives you roughly 60–70% weather-suitable days annually; we keep schedules flexible and rebook weather cancellations at no cost. Third, data format. Ask for deliverables in ETRS89 / Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) for engineering work, and confirm file types (DWG, DXF, LAS, GeoTIFF) before the flight — importing a point cloud your engineer can’t open is a preventable mistake.
What to ask any operator: IAA licence number, EASA Specific Category approval level (including STS-01 / STS-02 if flying over populated zones), public liability insurance amount (€6.5M is the practical floor for construction sites), and accuracy spec with the processing method behind it. “±5cm” means very different things depending on whether it comes from GPS alone, RTK, PPK, or RTK + physical ground control points. Get it in writing.
Survey-grade aerial data capture and processing for engineering, planning, and construction projects. All surveys include an independently-verifiable accuracy report and deliverables in your preferred coordinate system (typically ETRS89 / Irish Transverse Mercator).
Most of the survey work we do in Ireland falls into three categories. Topographic surveys (also written as topographical surveys) produce contour maps, DTMs, and CAD deliverables for design teams — we deliver to ±5cm using RTK flight positioning and PPK post-processing with physical ground control points. LiDAR surveys are what you ask for when vegetation, bracken, or overhanging canopy blocks the camera; the laser scanning pulse penetrates gaps that photogrammetry can’t. Volumetric work (stockpiles, cut-and-fill) typically ships as an Excel-ready report plus the GeoTIFF the number was calculated from, so your QS can audit it. Accuracy expectations are the same across all three: verifiable against survey-grade ground control, documented in every report.
Safe, efficient, and detailed inspections of structures, buildings, and infrastructure — without scaffolding, cherry pickers, or rope access. All deliverables include an engineer-readable defect report and full-resolution source imagery.
Drone inspection makes sense when access is the bottleneck — a pitched roof, a bridge soffit, a factory chimney, a 120m wind turbine. Our visual imagery is typically 45-megapixel stills (Zenmuse P1) plus 4K video for context. Thermal imaging is a separate layer: we fly a radiometric thermal camera on the same flight to pick up hidden moisture, heat loss, or underfloor heating faults that visual photography will not reveal. For structures that sit above and below waterline (typical for Irish road bridges crossing rivers), we pair the aerial inspection with an underwater ROV survey and produce a single combined report with above-waterline and below-waterline defect maps aligned to the same structure model.
Scheduled aerial surveys to track progress, detect changes, and document assets over time. Each capture uses the same flight plan and same ground control references so comparisons are apples-to-apples.
Monitoring programmes are priced per captured visit, not per deliverable, so clients typically book weekly, fortnightly, or monthly schedules depending on project velocity. The usual pattern on a 12–18 month construction programme: an initial topographic baseline, then monthly orthomosaics and stockpile volumes during the build, then an as-built topographic capture at handover. For coastal or environmental work, the same repeat-capture logic supports erosion rate modelling and habitat change detection, typically quarterly.
Niche applications that require specialist equipment, certifications, or operational expertise beyond standard drone work.
Most of the specialist work comes down to kit and permissions. Solar farm thermal inspections need a radiometric thermal camera and IEC-compliant reporting. Wind turbine blade inspection needs close-proximity flight planning under EASA Specific Category. Heritage recording needs tight minimum-safe-distance planning around unreinforced stone. Underwater ROV surveys need a DeepTrekker DTG3 and a pilot familiar with tidal estuaries. We hold the certifications and own the equipment for all of the above — if your project needs a combination (LiDAR + ROV on a river bridge, say), that’s one contract rather than two subcontractors.
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