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Aerial Inspection of Automated Shipping Yards

By Mike Ball / 03 Nov 2021

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Phase One has released a case study showing how its medium format camera has been used as part of a drone-based inspection solution for airborne inspection of railway-mounted automated storage cranes, reducing the downtime that would be required by manned ground inspection. The solution combines the DJI M600 Pro drone with the Phase One Industrial iXM-100 medium format camera.

The case study covers:

  • How the drone solution achieves a large image width of 7.7 m with a resolution of up to 1 mm
  • The advantages of this new method over traditional surveying methods
  • How the system adapts the flight path of the drone depending on the current position and velocity of the cranes
Posted by Mike Ball Mike Ball is our resident technical editor here at Unmanned Systems Technology. Combining his passion for teaching, advanced engineering and all things unmanned, Mike keeps a watchful eye over everything related to the unmanned technical sector. With over 10 years’ experience in the unmanned field and a degree in engineering, Mike’s been heading up our technical team here for the last 8 years. Connect
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