UK drone surveying company creates specialized rail solution

UK aerial surveying specialist Plowman Craven has produced a drone data collection solution specifically designed for owners and operators of rail networks across the nation and globe – including lines where physical access to infrastructure isn’t feasible.

Operating from offices in London and Hertfordshire, Plowman and Craven has built up one of the largest infrastructure surveying and inspection businesses in the UK in its over 50 years of work. Of late, that activity has increasingly relied on the considerable efficiencies and advantages that UAV tech provides in mapping and modeling, with the company’s latest development in that evolution being its Vogel Freedom drone platform designed for rail infrastructure clients.

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The company says its Vogel Freedom drone solution solves a lot of the problems rail operators face in carrying out network surveys, especially the traffic…