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Professional drone guides — page 13

EU regulations, real prices, mission preparation: concrete answers before commissioning a drone service.

• Marina pontoon inspection by drone: method, regulations, priceSunken floats, corroded cleats, overheating quayside pedestals: what a drone documents on marina pontoons without a diver or downtime. Method, coastal regulations, 2026 prices.
• Business park (ZAE) inventory by drone: method, priceFrench law requires public authorities to keep an inventory of their business parks, updated regularly. What drones bring: orthophotos, actual land use, vacancy, roof potential. Method, 2026 prices.
• Collective EPC and works plans: drone thermography for condominiums, priceCollective energy performance certificates and multi-year works plans: French condominiums must document the thermal state of their buildings. What drone thermography brings, method, 2026 prices.
• Riverbank and watercourse monitoring by drone: erosion, log jams, priceBank erosion, log jams, declining riparian forest: how drones help French river authorities monitor watercourses. Before/after flood surveys, photogrammetry, 2026 prices.
• Logistics and retail building roofs: drone inspection, priceHectares of steel deck and membrane, smoke vents, skylights, soon solar panels: how drones inspect large logistics and retail roofs without sending anyone up. Method, thermography, 2026 prices.
• French legal brush-clearance obligations (OLD): drone mapping and monitoring, priceIn French wildfire-prone areas, brush clearance around buildings is a legal duty. How drones map the plots concerned and verify execution, for municipalities and owners alike. 2026 prices.
• Drones in orchards: tree counts, blossom, frost, canopy volumes — priceFruit growing: what drones bring to the orchard — tree and gap counts, blossom monitoring, frost damage assessment, canopy volumes, vigour. Method, sensors, 2026 prices.
• Buying drone services through public procurement: a practical guide for French authoritiesThresholds, specifications, award criteria, operator and insurance checks, data ownership: how a French public authority buys drone services within procurement rules, without getting the deliverables wrong.
• Livestock buildings: drone inspection and thermography, priceFibre-cement roofs, rooflights, ventilated ridges, solar panels: how drones inspect livestock buildings without sending anyone up and without stressing animals. Ventilation, condensation, biosecurity, 2026 prices.
• Reforestation monitoring by drone: survival rate, game damage, priceForest plantations: how drones count seedlings, measure survival rates, spot game damage and weed competition. Monitoring required by French reforestation aid schemes and carbon projects. 2026 prices.
• Hospitals and healthcare campuses: drone inspection and thermography, priceMulti-building campuses, crowded technical roofs, energy obligations, absolute service continuity: how drones inspect hospital real estate without scaffolding or interruption. Method, helipad, 2026 prices.
• Stadium and sports hall drone inspection: roof, structure, priceSteel trusses, tensioned membranes, gutters, floodlight masts: how drones inspect the large roofs of stadiums, arenas and sports halls without cherry pickers or rope access. Method, thermography, regulations, 2026 prices.
• Farm hedgerow mapping by drone: length, CAP subsidy, priceCAP conditionality (BCAE 8) requires farmers to maintain the hedgerows they declare, while France's hedgerow pact targets a net gain of 50,000 km by 2030. What drone mapping brings to a reliable hedge inventory. Method, 2026 prices.
• Facade diagnosis by drone before renovation: cracks, render, priceHow a drone diagnoses the condition of a facade before renovation work — cracks, render detachment, weak points — the regulatory framework involved, and observed 2026 pricing.
• Electrical substation drone inspection: thermography, method, priceBusbars, transformers, circuit breakers: aerial thermography spots hot spots in an HV/MV substation without exposing a technician or cutting power. Method, regulations, 2026 prices.
• Solar or wind farm technical due diligence by drone: method, deliverables, priceBefore buying a solar or wind farm, a drone audit objectively assesses the real condition of the modules or blades within days. Method, deliverable buyers expect, 2026 prices.
• Lighthouse and maritime signal inspection by drone: method, priceLighthouses at sea or ashore, beacon towers, navigation lights: how drones inspect towers, lanterns and masonry without scaffolding or heavy vessels. Framework, method, 2026 prices.
• Municipal road condition survey by drone: pavement distress mapping, pricePotholes, alligator cracking, rutting: how drones map the condition of municipal roads with high-resolution orthophotos and feed the works programme. Method, fit with classic survey vehicles, 2026 prices.
• Municipal cemetery mapping by drone: site plan, plot management, priceMissing or outdated cemetery plan, plot recovery procedures, extension: how a drone surveys a cemetery with centimetre orthophotos feeding the plan and register. Method, site-specific care, 2026 prices.
• Snow depth mapping by drone: grooming, snowmaking, ski resort pricesMeasuring snow depth run by run, optimising grooming and snowmaking: how drone photogrammetry maps a ski area's snow cover. Summer/winter method, limits, 2026 prices.
• Demolition and deconstruction with drones: site records, waste volumes, priceBefore, during and after demolition: records of adjoining buildings, support to pre-demolition audits, waste stockpile volumes, as-built surveys. What drones bring to demolition contractors and clients, 2026 prices.