Drones excel at taking over jobs that are dark, dirty and dangerous – and mapping the sewerage underground electricity tunnels that lie under a city certainly meet that description. Now, a team from Indonesia has demonstrated that it a drone equipped with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be used to map assets underground. The uses for this technology are many: construction companies who need to identify underground utilities; oil and gas providers who must identify pipeline leaks; or the mapping of open pit mining sites.
This new technology, successfully demonstrated by Terra Drone Indonesia, expands the ways in which drones can help keep workers safe, often while performing a job with improved speed and accuracy.
Dark, Dirty and Dangerous: This Drone Can Map Pipes and Underground Tunnels from Above