How Drone Mapping Helps Plan a New Subdivision

Drone mapping gives a development team a fresh look at a piece of land before anyone draws a single lot line. In South Dakota, where a new subdivision may sit on open acreage or a growing edge of town, that early view matters. It shows what the property looks like right now, not what it […]
How Drone Surveys Calculate Stockpile and Excavation Volume

A gravel pile always looks bigger from the ground than it really is. That trick of the eye has cost contractors real money for years. A pile that looks like 2,000 cubic yards might only hold 1,400. Someone has to get the number right, and it’s usually not the person standing next to it with […]