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🗺️ SURVEYING & PHOTOGRAMMETRY · VERSAILLES (78) · €800–3,000 PER DAY

Drone surveying & photogrammetry in Versailles

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Around Versailles, 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. From the town centre to the business parks, the pilots covering Versailles and its department (78) match equipment and flight plan to each order.

Outside the royal estate the market exists: private mansions and co-owned buildings in the Notre-Dame and Saint-Louis quarters needing roof inspections, headquarters and administrations, equestrian events and trade shows at the exhibition park, and neighbouring residential towns for upmarket real estate. Our team knows precisely where the boundary runs — to the metre. Versailles is a regulatory textbook case: the palace and its estate sit under a permanent no-fly zone — no overflight without an exceptional top-level waiver —, air base 107 at Villacoublay (government helicopters) borders the town to the north-east, and the Saint-Cyr-l'École airfield to the west completes a saturated airspace, all within the constrained Paris conurbation zone.

What the service covers in Versailles

Sites and landmarks in Versailles

On the mission-planning map, these places in Versailles shape trajectories and framing:

Rates

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

Flight rules in Versailles

A photogrammetric survey in Versailles covers the site in parallel flight lines: inside the restricted perimeter (Zone interdite permanente du château et du domaine de Versailles), the authorisation must describe that grid precisely — a technical file we prepare as standard.

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 Versailles: what budget should you plan?

Allow €800–3,000 per day — the 2026 French market range, including regulatory preparation, flight and delivery. Build the overflight-authorisation lead time for Versailles into your schedule: several weeks depending on the case.

What accuracy can a drone survey achieve in Versailles?

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 Île-de-France.

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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