Reality capture for solar and wind
A solar site needs accurate topography before it is designed, verification while it is built, and thermal inspection once it is producing. All three come off the same aircraft.
Three different questions, one capture platform.
Site selection and racking design depend on grade. Construction depends on verifying that the grade and the layout got built the way they were drawn. Operations depend on finding the underperforming modules and strings before the production report shows the loss.
Those are usually three vendors. They do not have to be. The elevation work is LiDAR, the verification is photogrammetry, and the inspection is radiometric thermal, and all of it flies on the same platform with the same crew.
Across the asset life
- Site topography and grading surfaces
- Drainage and stormwater documentation
- Construction progress and layout verification
- As built comparison against design
- Radiometric thermal scans of arrays in service
- String and module anomaly locations on a site plan
- Vegetation encroachment documentation
- Post storm damage records
How the work phases
Before design
Topographic surface and drainage data dense enough to lay out racking and grading against, delivered in Civil 3D.
During construction
Progress documentation on a repeatable flight plan, with as built comparison against the design surface.
In service
Radiometric thermal flown in the right irradiance conditions, with anomalies located on a site plan your O and M team can work from.
After a storm
Rapid documentation once airspace reopens, compared against the pre storm baseline if we captured one.
Data from delivered work.
What we typically fly for this work.
Common questions.
Can you inspect an operating array without shutting it down?
What conditions do you need for thermal on solar?
Do you deliver anomaly reports?
Start with one site.
Send the boundary and the deliverable you need. We scope it, fly it, and return the data in your format, typically in under seven days.