Wingtra’s New Drone Sets Benchmark in Precision Mapping

Swiss drone producer Wingtra this week introduced the launch of the WingtraOne PPK (Post-Processed Kinematics) mannequin. Working with photogrammetry software program supplier Pix4D and PPK supplier Septentrio, the corporate says it might now present orthomosaics mapping and 3D fashions “with an absolute accuracy down to .4 inches.”

Several trade sectors – mining, building, surveying and telecommunications – depend on aerial mapping and 3D modeling to diagnose downside areas or survey terrain for growth of recent tasks.  Deploying drones supplies a less expensive and safer possibility over manned flight.

The WingtraOne PPK is a hybrid drone – a mixture of fixed-wing and multi-rotor – and launches as a vertical take-off and touchdown plane.

“Vertical take-off and landing means hands-free operation and a smoother ride for the on-board sensors,” CTO of Wingtra CTO Armin Ambühl mentioned in a press launch. “Secondly, efficient flying in fixed-wing mode means far greater coverage than any comparable multirotor.”

Ambühl added that the brand new mannequin can cowl 320 acres in a one-hour flight – about 240 soccer fields. Explaining PPK, he defined: “PPK computes ultra-precise geolocations for each image by combining the GNSS data with correction data from a nearby reference receiver.”

“Our unique VTOL technology has already helped us establish a firm ground in the market with applications ranging from cadastral surveying of Africa’s largest Uranium mine to digital elevation modelling of Alpine locations,” COO Maximilian Boosfeld mentioned.

“With the combination of VTOL capability and the PPK, we see a clear advantage over the current aerial surveying solutions. I believe that WingtraOne will generally replace fixed-wings in large coverage mapping missions in the near future as we have just set the new industry benchmark in drone photogrammetry.”

In September, the corporate partnered with data-imagery distributor Precision Capture to develop Wingtra’s U.S. market footprint.

Earlier this 12 months, Swiss engineering agency Cavigelli Ingeniuere AG employed Wingtra to map Lumnezia, a Swiss Alpine valley, forward of plans to put in a 20-turbine wind farm in the distant, usually inaccessible area.

“The transport, the flight preparation, the flight planning, the takeoff process, and the data transfer were very easy and convincing [sic],” Cavigelli engineer Thomas Arpagaus mentioned of the venture. “Thanks to the use of a drone, we were able to greatly reduce the costs for the surveying and evaluation of the original site for the design work. The tight project planning could be kept due to the fast and flexible data acquisition.”

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