With all of the hype in the industry about what drones can offer it is very important that the service provider you chose is providing accurate data that you expect and they are claiming they can do. I have seen too many times that there are great salesmen and a lot of money put into marketing but the actual product doesn't live up to what they promised. 

 

General Knowledge

• Surveyor

• Geospatial knowledge about coordinate systems and projections

• Equipment (quality of drone/ sensor)

• General knowledge of equipment and procedure

• Can set ground control points (GCP) to georeference data and create quality checks after the project is processed

• Post-processed the images in-house and not with an app based program. There is no human interaction with these so they can't add GCP's or clean the data. 

• Geospatial reference the data. Put the project in a usable coordinate system in which your other data or designs are in

• Deliver products in formats that are easily usable by company or consultants

• Mapping background

• Knows what a DSM is

• Knows what a DTM is

• Volume calculation history

• Mine planning and analysis background

• MSHA certified

 

What deliverables can they offer

• Orthorectified mosaic image (a distortion-free image of the project area)

• DSM

• DTM

• Contours in dwg. shp. formats

• Point clouds

• Professional final map products

  • Corporate meetings

  • Site planning meetings

  • Permit acquisition/renewal

  • Office or job trailer

 

Do they offer consulting services that use the data that they produce?