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Top-down orthophoto-style view of farmland parcels captured by drone

🗺️ SURVEYING & PHOTOGRAMMETRY · CHARTRES (28) · €800–3,000 PER DAY

Drone surveying & photogrammetry in Chartres

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Around Chartres, land consolidation, development zones and infrastructure call for up-to-date surveys: the drone covers dozens of hectares per flight and delivers DTMs, contour lines and volumes with fully traceable accuracy. With 38,534 inhabitants, Chartres generates steady demand in Centre-Val de Loire: a pilot covering the area prices your mission within one working day.

The local economy relies on the Cosmetic Valley — the world's leading perfumery-cosmetics cluster (Guerlain, LVMH nearby) —, Beauce agro-industry and services. For drones, the Beauce is a major precision-agriculture terrain (NDVI mapping, crop counts), alongside heritage, real-estate and construction-monitoring missions. Prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, Chartres is dominated by its Notre-Dame cathedral, UNESCO-listed since 1979: its two dissimilar spires, visible for kilometres above the Beauce plain, its "Chartres blue" stained glass and its crypt make it a mythic aerial subject — subject to monument and urban-area authorisations.

What the service covers in Chartres

Sites and landmarks in Chartres

To prepare flights in Chartres (38,534 inhabitants, Centre-Val de Loire), the pilot relies on landmarks such as:

Rates

€800–3,000 per day — the range observed on the 2026 French market, including regulatory preparation, flight and delivery. Every mission in Chartres is priced on its own facts: area to cover, flight height, expected deliverable and local formalities.

Flight rules in Chartres

Photogrammetric flight plans in Chartres are set within the controlled airspace ceilings (Aérodrome de Chartres-Champhol (LFOR)): ground resolution is guaranteed by adapting height and overlap, with the protocol cleared before the mission.

Photogrammetric surveys fly in the open category over controlled sites, on automated grids below 120 m; urban footprints or sites crossed by third parties move to the specific category with a declaration. Full regulations and rates: surveying & photogrammetry across France →

Information checked against the regulations in force as of August 2026 (EU regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947, applicable French decrees).

Frequently asked questions

Surveying & photogrammetry in Chartres: what budget should you plan?

Allow €800–3,000 per day — the 2026 French market range, including regulatory preparation, flight and delivery. In Chartres, coordination with the local airspace is included in the quote and arranged within a few days.

What accuracy can a drone survey achieve in Chartres?

With GNSS-measured ground control points, the orthophoto and point cloud reach 2–5 cm planimetric accuracy — enough for a preliminary design survey. For legally binding documents we work under a partner chartered surveyor covering Centre-Val de Loire.

Does vegetation interfere with photogrammetric surveys?

Yes: photogrammetry measures the visible surface, so the canopy rather than the ground beneath. For wooded areas, we offer drone LiDAR, which penetrates vegetation and reconstructs the bare terrain.

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