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Measurement
and Reports
With Drone
Surveying
November 2018
No matter what industry you’re working
in, measuring and reporting on your
stockpiles is crucial to successful
operations.
in 3D, so you can view your site as it How stockpile volume measurements work
actually is. We make the 3D survey as What drone stockpile measurement software
close to the real world as possible. you need
It’ll come as no surprise, but stockpile Stockpile report costs using drones
measurement and reports account
for the most frequent use case for Before we can get into the ways to use stockpile
drones on worksites. People use drone measurement data to improve efficiency on your
surveying and software to get accurate site and spot problems before they become
expensive, we need to understand how drones and
volumetrics more than anything else. software actually measure your stockpiles, and this
means photogrammetry.
PPK drones are able to accurately geotag and correct PPK stands for “post-processing kinematic.” With PPK when the drone takes a picture. Now that we know
their GPS data. While there are different kinds of GPS capability, the drone geotags X, Y, and Z coordinates to the offset after the fact, the initial, less-than-accurate
correctional processing technology, we’ll be covering each images based on its GPS unit. While this is happening, on-board GPS data is then overwritten, giving precise
PPK here. a base (be it a base station, an AeroPoint, or the CORS geotags for the imagery.
network) on the ground is also recording positional
(If you want to learn more about RTK, check out our information, but with much more accurate triangulation. Due to its ease-of-use and reliability, we recommend
Drone Surveying Explained: From GCPs to PPK ebook.) a PPK workflow for drone surveying on any site—from
After the flight is completed, those two sets of GPS data mines to landfills and every construction site in between.
are matched up using a timestamp, which is recorded
What makes surveying stockpiles with a drone different This accuracy starts with the imagery. Unsurprisingly, Both horizontally and vertically (Z values), drones are
is that it can capture all those irregularities and faithfully drone photos capture significantly more detail than able to capture and render higher resolution data, that’s
renders them in your survey, thus allowing the computer shooting points with a rover. Photos let you see the just as accurate as traditional surveying. And, the better
to calculate the volume of the true shape, not a rough physical details between the individual points. your data is, the better your model. Correctly used,
approximation. drones in conjunction with ground control can produce
3D surveys with 20–50mm accuracy.
Sand
Density
2.50 T/m
Value ($/T)
$14.50/T
Volume (Cut)
2 358.09 m
Tonnage (Cut)
5 895.21 T
Total ($)
$85,480.58
Drone imagery and ground control are only half of the The real value, however, comes with calculating the
puzzle. Your data, no matter how good, is useless unless material properties of your stockpiles. Using that built-in
you can visualize it. That’s where software comes in. calculator you can find out the density of your material
and the dollar value of your stockpile. Easily see how
Beyond the digital model of your stockpiles, you want much money is really sitting in your stockyard.
to make sure that the processing software has tools that
increase efficiency and actually get you the answers you You also want a software that allows you to automate
need from your data. repeated tasks. If you have dozens of stockpiles,
measuring each one can take more time that you’ve
For the Propeller Platform, measuring stockpile volume got. Propeller has automated stockpile detection, which
is simple and quick. To streamline accurate measurement reduces the time it takes to calculate volumes—and thus
and reporting, there are number of templates available to all other measurements—by automatically spotting all
create common measurements you need on site. A few your stockpiles during data processing. So when you’re
of which we touched on above, but beyond that Propeller ready to do some site analysis, you can find all these
allows you to copy measurements to multiple surveys— piles in one fell swoop.
great for piles that don’t move around.
eom-stockpiles-1
Template
EOM Stockpiles
Material Tonnage (Cut)
685.9008
Value ($)
17147.52
From Dataset
Feb 18 2018
To Dataset
0.68
reports using
inventory reporting. Each take only three steps to create
eom-stockpiles-2 EOM Stockpiles Feb 18 2018 Quarry Design Stage 2 16.177
and download. 3A coarse Stockpile Sand 5474.674999999999 79382.78749999999 Feb 18 2018 reference level
3A fine Stockpile Sand 2235.945 32421.202500000003 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 27.813
measurement
stockpile-10 Stockpile 20mm rock 224.226 4484.52 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 4.443
CSV reports include: stockpile-16 Stockpile 10mm rock 386.8362 9670.905 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 5.438
stockpile-17 Stockpile Maganeese 1384.5225 484582.875 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 13.989
Name, description, and any material properties. stockpile-18 Stockpile low grade 5537.375 4429900 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 10.718
software
stockpile-19 Stockpile Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 17.211
All measurement quantities based on how you stockpile-20 Stockpile Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 10.602
created the measurement. stockpile-3 Stockpile Crushed 2088.12 25057.44 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 4.093
stockpile-4 Stockpile stone 1481.57 17778.84 Feb 18 2018 smart volume level 46.086
A link to each individual measurement. stockpile-5 Stockpile Sand 757.4475 10982.98875 Feb 18 2018 reference level
No matter how often you report out on your stock, you A link to each individual measurement.
want to be able to pull those reports without too much
hassle, and have them in the file formats you need. Look And if you’ve added those monetary values to your
for software that provides a range of download options, material, the stockpile’s value will also be listed in these
and allows you to export your raw data. reports for each individual pile.
As we’ve mentioned above, drone While some services are ultra-specific when it comes
to stockpile reporting, those usually charge you by the
surveying costs less than traditional pile. Often they don’t even return visuals, just a report
base-and-rover surveying. It’s more that includes numbers.
affordable hardware-wise. It takes
But cloud-based drone data platforms like Propeller
less time to complete, so you’re not
typically charge per dataset, which, of course, isn’t limited
paying personnel for days or weeks to stockpiles alone. You can survey your whole site for
of work. And when it comes to getting that price and get back an interactive, visual 3D survey.
accessible, accurate data? That can save
Rather than asking how much stockpile reporting costs,
your business on huge write-offs that, in a better question is, “How much does stockpile reporting
the past, have been accepted as the cost with drones save my business?”
of doing business.
With all the advancements in drone surveying over before, you can tighten up operations from financial to-share digital reporting, you can have a visual
the past few years, the drone has become more than a forecasting to supply-chain management to accurate conversation with your team or your boss, and get
novelty, more than a tool—it’s become a profit generator. reconciliation. everyone on the same page with processing platforms
like Propeller.
Today, surveying your stockpiles by drone is quickly These things aren’t feasible with traditional tools,
becoming the industry standard when it comes to but with drone surveying “fluff factors” in inventory Learn more about stockpile measurement and
measuring and reporting on your stock. management can be a thing of the past. reporting on your site today and contact us.
Because you can count on accurate, exact numbers on Updated information about your stockyard is now
Contact us
your stockpiles and get them more frequently than ever available as often as you want to fly. And with easy-