Aerial Survey UAV's First Flight Successfully Helped Hubei Xianning Survey Work

"China Instrument Network Instrument Research and Development" "3, 2, 1, starting ..." At 16:16 pm on April 11th, the Tianbao UX5-HP aerial drone made its first flight at Dazhou Lake in Xianning City, Hubei Province, marking the first flight. Xianning City Planning Bureau officially entered the drone era.

After the Tianbao UX5-HP aerial drone lifted off, it circling briefly and began to measure aerial photography along the set orbit. At 16:43, UAV operations returned, landing smoothly.

According to reports, on January 22, 2016, the City Survey and Mapping Institute completed the procurement and acceptance of the Tianbao UX5-HP aerial drone. Tianbao UX5-HP is one of the most advanced international aerial drones. UX5-HP greatly simplifies the process of aerial photogrammetry for drones and improves aerial surveying efficiency. At the same time, UX5-HP can also process GPS, Glonass, Beidou and Beidou navigation system data, which is of great significance for improving aerial survey accuracy.

“Generally speaking, traditional manual surveying requires a project that lasts one month and can be completed in about 10 days with a drone.” According to Yan Xiaoyun, Dean of the City Survey and Surveying and Mapping Institute, compared with the traditional full-field digital surveying and mapping, no one Aircraft aerial survey has the advantages of convenience, speed, low cost and high efficiency. The workload of internal and external industries is reduced, the allocation of human and financial assets is fully and rationally optimized, and the work efficiency and project profits have been greatly improved. The application of drones can also greatly increase the level of basic surveying and mapping support, and promote the update of basic geographic information data in our city. We will further promote the development of “Digital Xianning” and better serve the economic development of our city. "For example, drones measuring in the air below 800 meters can clearly capture objects one centimeter in size on the ground."

It is understood that in addition to the wider use of urban mapping applications, drones can be used in urban management, energy extraction, emergency rescue, and game production.

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