Drone inspection of power lines and telecom towers across the UAE. On a line, the towers, conductors, insulators, dampers and fittings are photographed close enough to see a cracked shed or a corroded fitting, without a climbing team and without taking the line out of service. On a mast, every antenna, radio unit and dish is recorded without sending a rigger up.
The conventional options are a climber working up each structure, a helicopter pass, or binoculars from the ground. The first is slow and puts someone at height on a live asset. The second is expensive and gets you one angle. The third finds nothing that is not obvious.
How we fly a line
Two passes, doing different jobs. A corridor run along the route records the span as a whole — conductor sag, vegetation encroachment, access track condition, anything foreign on the line. Then a structure orbit at each tower captures the fittings from several angles at close standoff, so the crossarm, the insulator string and the dampers are each covered properly rather than caught incidentally.
Positions are recorded with RTK or PPK, so every frame is tied to a coordinate and to a specific structure. Imagery arrives indexed by tower number rather than as an undifferentiated folder, which is the difference between a dataset an engineer can use and one they have to sort first.
Thermal can be flown on the same visit where the brief calls for it. A joint or a clamp running hot under load reads clearly against the surrounding conductor, and the thermal set is delivered against the same coordinates as the visual one.
