The use of UAV’s (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles) in the utility industry has been growing. AltaGas Utilities has been an early adopter of UAV technology and they continue to utilize it for project planning, reconnaissance, engineering analysis and gas leak detection. This presentation will cover previous flights performed by AUI with both rotary drone and fixed wing UAV aircraft. The processes of flight planning, permitting, flying, data processing and data applications will be explained in detail. The final flight deliverables include high resolution aerial photography, LiDAR point cloud topographic data and geothermal data, all of which will be presented. Additionally, AltaGas Utilities will touch on their 3D station scanning project using the Trimble VX 3D scanner.
