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You fly it. We turn it into something your client keeps.

Your pilots already capture far more than a folder of stills and a flyover film can carry. We take footage you have already flown and turn it into a measured 3D record, with what is on the site counted and read, and a link your client opens on a phone. It goes out under your name, not ours.

A petrochemical plant rebuilt in 3D and seen from the air, its storage spheres and two crawler cranes picked out in the viewer
A petrochemical plant rebuilt from drone clips, with thirteen storage vessels sized and two crane booms placed in 3D. Our own build on stock footage, labelled on screen.

The problem you already know.

A flight sells once. You hand over stills and a film, the client watches it, and the job is finished. Almost nothing you captured reaches them in a form they can measure, share with their own board, or come back to in six months.

What we make from it.

Four things, and a client can open all of them from one link.

A measured 3D record

The site rebuilt from your footage so heights, spans and areas can be read off it, with the margin on every figure written on the page beside it rather than left for the client to assume.

What is on it, counted

Antennas, poles, plots, buildings and build stages read off the model by software and then confirmed one by one by a person, against close crops of your own photographs.

A register beside the 3D

The table your client already keeps, put next to the model it describes: which units are sold, which plots are built, which assets were found and on what date.

A link, not an app

It opens in a browser on a phone. No install, no account and nothing for your client’s IT department to approve.

The same plant with its storage spheres shown as translucent volumes, each labelled with a sample fill level
The fill levels, the buried lines and the floor plans in this view are samples and say so on screen. The sphere sizes are measured.
A power line pole rebuilt in 3D from a drone orbit, seen from above through the trees around it
One pole off a drone orbit, rebuilt and read part by part. Flown by Airweb’s drone pilot network, and checked against the drone’s own LiDAR.
Apartment block roofs rebuilt in 3D from a drone survey, inside an asset register
A block of flat roofs from one drone survey, turned into an asset register with work orders against each item. Flown by Airweb’s drone pilot network. The work orders and contractors in it are examples and say so on screen.

Your name on it, ours off it.

The viewer carries your brand and your colours, and your own domain where you want it. Where a client would rather see both names we co-brand, and the caption says which part is whose. What we do not do is go round you to your client.

The evidence, and whose it is.

Every figure here is published somewhere you can open and check. Where we have no figure, we say that instead.

  • A guyed mast flown by a partner’s pilots came back as 34 panel antennas across five mount levels, each with its own height and facing, and a mast height of 94.1 m to about one per cent either way. Read by software first, then confirmed level by level by a person.published by us on case-study-telecom-mast.html.
  • On a power line pole, the median gap between our 3D and the drone’s own LiDAR was 8 cm, over 143,547 points compared, with nine points in ten inside 28 cm. That is the check, published, rather than a claim about accuracy.published by us on case-study-power-line-pole-record.html.
  • A commercial roof came off one routine crosshatch flight, with 292 of 293 photos placed in the 3D and a typical roof height of 6.8 m. Scale came from the drone’s own positioning rather than ground control, so the figures are a guide of about three to five per cent and the page says so beside them.published by us on case-study-commercial-roof-record.html.
  • A tower being stripped for demolition was kept as a dated record across 8 visits, with the strip-out line at 39 m on the 12 June record and 684 m³ of debris on the podium roof, published with its range rather than as one confident number.published by us on case-study-demolition-site.html.
  • The plant in the picture above went from nine clips and 412 frames to a finished 3D in one hour thirty-seven minutes, on a single desktop graphics card. Turnaround is usually what a partner asks about second, after accuracy.published by us on case-study-petrochemical-plant-record.html.
  • We have no published figure for what this adds to a drone company’s invoice, because we have not run enough of them to have one worth quoting. We would rather say that than put a number on it.our own books.

How it runs.

You fly it

A routine flight, flown the way you already fly. Tell us the question the client actually wants answered and we will say before you go up whether the flight you are planning will carry it.

We rebuild it and read it

The reconstruction, the measurements and the counts, each one checked by a person against your own photographs before it goes anywhere near your client.

You deliver it

A link under your brand, with every figure carrying its margin, and us behind you if the client asks something technical.

What makes footage reconstruct

  • Overlapping stills beat a smooth video almost every time, and a routine crosshatch is usually enough.
  • Fly the dull sides too. A face nobody filmed is a face nobody can measure, and it is always the one the client asks about.
  • Standard positioning reconstructs perfectly well. What it will not do is settle a boundary, and we say so on the page rather than let a client assume otherwise.
  • Send us one flight you have already done before you promise anything to anybody. That is what the free review is for.

Questions we get asked.

Do I need RTK or ground control?

Not to get a usable record. Scale from the drone’s own positioning gives figures good to a few per cent, which is enough to plan access, count what is there and compare two dates. RTK or ground markers tighten it, and where a client needs survey-grade numbers we say so instead of stretching what we have.

Whose footage is it?

Yours. It stays yours, and so does the client. We work behind you, and we will sign that.

Can it carry my brand instead of yours?

Yes. That is the normal arrangement. Your brand, your colours, and your own domain where you want it.

What can you actually measure from a flight?

Heights, spans, footprints, areas, clearances, volumes of material on the ground, and counts of things that repeat, like antennas, poles or plots. Every figure is published with its margin.

How long does it take?

It depends on the size of the site and what is being read off it. Send a flight through and we will tell you for that job rather than quote an average that fits nobody.

What does it cost me?

Partner terms are agreed per relationship rather than off a rate card. Where we quote a starting figure it sits on the page for that service, and that is where a conversation about yours begins.

Get a free review.

Send us one flight you have already done. We will tell you what comes off it, and what does not, before either of us promises a client anything.