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Professional drone guides — page 26

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

• Drone forest-fire prevention patrol: early smoke detection and priceHow a drone patrol detects a forest-fire outbreak within its first minutes, alongside human surveillance, the regulatory framework and 2026 pricing.
• Water network leak detection by drone: method and price for a municipalityHow a drone fitted with a thermal camera spots a leak on a buried drinking-water network, alongside conventional methods, and 2026 pricing.
• Railway track and infrastructure inspection by drone: method and priceHow a drone documents the condition of a railway track, embankment or rail bridge alongside operations, the specific regulatory framework and 2026 pricing.
• Traffic counting by drone: circulation study for a municipality and priceHow a drone films a junction or a road to produce detailed traffic data (flows, travel times, conflicts), and 2026 pricing.
• Glacier and mountain terrain monitoring by drone: photogrammetry and climate trackingHow a drone documents a glacier's retreat or the evolution of an unstable mountain slope, the specific regulatory framework and 2026 pricing.
• Illegal dumping and dumps: what a drone can (and cannot) legally doMapping an illegal dump, measuring its volume, tracking how it grows: what a drone provider can legally do for a local authority, and the strict limit set by France's Constitutional Council in 2022.
• Aerial drone photography for a building permit application: landscape insertion and priceWhat French planning law requires in photographs (DP5 to DP8), what a drone aerial shot adds to the landscape-insertion photomontage, the flight's regulatory framework, and 2026 pricing.
• Vegetation mapping under power lines by drone LiDAR: the legal clearance obligation and priceHow a drone LiDAR survey maps vegetation along a power line for France's legal clearance obligation, who is responsible for paying, and observed 2026 pricing.
• Flood and water damage assessment by drone: mapping, insurance evidence, priceHow a drone maps a flooded area and documents water damage for an insurance claim, the regulatory framework that applies, and observed 2026 pricing.
• Church steeple and heritage building drone inspection: method, authorisations and priceInspecting a church steeple or listed façade without scaffolding: drone method, who must authorise it (municipality, DRAC, ABF) and 2026 diagnostic pricing.
• Drone footage of an event: what French law says about crowds, and the 2026 priceFestival, race, trade show: can a drone film the crowd? What French rules say about assemblies of people, and prices observed in 2026.
• Vehicle fleet counting by drone for car lots: method, accuracy and priceDealership, rental fleet, port: how a drone counts and locates hundreds of vehicles within minutes, the method's real accuracy, and 2026 pricing.
• Industrial site surveillance by autonomous drone: how it works, regulations and priceHow a drone-in-a-box patrols an industrial site at night, what the STS-01/STS-02 specific-category rules mean since 2026, and observed 2026 pricing.
• Solar panel cleaning by drone: yield gain, method, 2026 pricesDrone cleaning of photovoltaic panels: yield loss from soiling, contact-free demineralised-water method, cleaning frequency and 2026 prices.
• Finding an Asian hornet nest with a drone: method, regulations and priceAn Asian hornet nest hidden high in a tree canopy: how a thermal drone locates it, what detection does not cover (destruction), regulations and 2026 pricing.
• Thermal drone search for missing persons: how it works, who's involved, and the rulesHow a thermal drone helps find a missing person: the role of gendarmerie, firefighters and accredited associations, where a private pilot fits in, and the 2026 legal framework.
• Drone roof survey before installing solar panels: layout study and what to checkBefore installing solar panels, a drone survey measures roof orientation, pitch and shading for accurate layout planning, and checks the roof's condition. Method and 2026 pricing.
• Agricultural damage assessment by drone after hail or storms: method and insurance claimsHail, storms, frost: how a drone survey quickly documents the extent of agricultural damage to support your crop insurance claim. Method and 2026 pricing.
• Post-wildfire hot spot detection with a thermal droneOnce a wildfire is under control, thermal drones locate residual hot spots hidden under the ash to prevent reignition. Method, legal framework and 2026 prices.
• Livestock counting and monitoring by thermal drone: method and priceCounting a scattered herd, watching over calving, finding a stray animal: what a thermal drone brings to livestock farmers. Method, regulations and 2026 pricing.
• Dam and levee inspection by drone: method, regulations and priceHow a drone inspects a dam or levee: comparative photogrammetry, seepage thermography, GEMAPI regulations and 2026 pricing.