Use of Drones in Environmental Work

Droning is a key tool in the environmental industry in today’s world, and assists many of the services we offer. Some services that utilize drones include projects that require aerial photography, project progression images, habitat mapping, exotic vegetation coverage, site analysis, and sea grass surveys.

Some examples of these uses include:

• Going out before projects begin to establish the best ways to navigate a property. That information can help determine what equipment is needed to gain access for the job; for example, using a swamp buggy due to high water elevations in the area, or chainsaws for heavy vegetation.
• Through photo stitching technology built with the collection of 800+ photos, ETE can provide high quality aerials where fieldwork may not even be needed for a project, such as determining vegetation die off, and can help to delineate FLUCCS (Florida Land Use, Cover Classification System) mapping.
• Progressive photos of a project can be a huge addition to an expansive report, whether it’s a massive construction project or monitoring the health of vegetation within a preserve over multiple years.