Downtime of infrastructure is costly and manned inspection operations can often be dangerous to personnel. Unmanned aerial vehicles can access hard-to-reach places faster, cheaper and with less risk than manual inspections, and potentially allow the asset to remain on line.
The SDO 50 can also be used for environmental monitoring applications including topography & vegetation mapping, detection of exhaust emissions (e.g., sulfur), or nuclear radiation. Further sensor payloads can be integrated for customer-specific use cases.
