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PARTY CHIEFS AND CREW LEADS
You decide what goes in the truck and you carry it when the data comes back short. We work at your level, not at your PM's.
CANADA’S DRONE SPECIALISTS.
Your Survey Solutions Provider.
Our Competitors measure their customer relationships in units shipped. At Candrone our people are from your field.
- Specialists by vertical, not a general sales floor. The person on your demo has run this work
- Third party base station integration. Keep the gear you already own rather than replacing it
- We will tell you when the cheaper configuration is the right one, and when a project does not need LiDAR
- Canadian operation, Canadian regulatory setup, Canada-wide delivery and support
- Transport Canada certified training via Candrone Academy
BUILT FOR CREWS WHO CANNOT AFFORD A Second Mobilization
Clearing a backlog, holding a corridor schedule, or producing deliverables a client specified at bid. Here is where we fit.
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GIS AND CAD TEAMS
You are the one who finds out the datum was wrong. Deliverables arrive in your coordinate system and vertical datum.
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CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
Existing conditions for design, permitting and earthworks tracking, with the error stated rather than assumed.
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FIELD OPERATIONS AND SITE SUPERVISORS
Repeat capture on your reporting cycle, and fewer people standing where they should not be standing.
SAME CREW. More Ground.
Ground survey backlog builds faster than traditional methods clear it. The constraint was never capability. It is crew days.
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One flight covers corridor, cut and fill, and grade check on the same pass
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Repeat capture runs on your reporting cycle, not on a crew's availability
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Fewer people standing in traffic corridors, on cut faces, and beside active equipment
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Your crew stays on the work that needs them physically present
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The deliverables clients are specifying at bid, produced without subcontracting the scope
Closing line:
This expands what your program can cover in a season. It does not replace your surveyor, your total station, or your crew, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.
01 LINEAR WORK
Corridor and right of way
Continuous coverage along an alignment without the flight time cost of gridding the ground around it. Control distributed along the run, not around a block.
02 VOLUMES
Earthworks and cut and fill
Calculated from a surveyed surface, with the error against independently surveyed checkpoints stated alongside the number.
03 DOCUMENTATION
As-built verification
Progress surfaces on your reporting cycle, tied to your control network, in the format your office already handles.
EQUIPMENT PACKAGES FOR EVERY Survey Program.
Non-DJI sensors use GeoCue · positioning is Emlid RS4 base/rover ·
NDAA-compliant platforms as their own tier
ENTRY SURVEY PACKAGE
Teams starting a drone survey program — site progress monitoring, basic topographic mapping, orthophoto creation.
- DJI Matrice 4E (M4E) — rugged, all-weather mapping drone
- DJI Terra — mapping & 3D modelling software
- DJI D-RTK 3 Multifunctional Station — GNSS base station with tripod kit.
- Ground Control Point (GCP) Targets Kit — ties survey to design coordinates
- Compatible with AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, most civil/survey platforms
- Intro to Photogrammetry Course
PLUG & PLAY LIDAR PACKAGE
Teams needing accurate topographic surveys, volumetric measurement, and grading verification.
- DJI Matrice 400 — enterprise mapping platform
- DJI Zenmuse L3 — simultaneous RGB + LiDAR capture
- DJI Terra and Modify — LiDAR and point cloud creation
- Outputs: DTM/DEM, cut/fill volumes, 3D accuracy control report
- Intro to LiDAR Course
- Ground Control Point (GCP) Targets Kit — ties survey to design coordinates
MOST POPULAR
PRECISION SURVEY & EARTHWORKS PACKAGE
Professional civil operations requiring survey-grade accuracy, dense point clouds, and precise volumetric/grading data.
- DJI Zenmuse L3 — simultaneous RGB + LiDAR capture (GeoCue TrueView 1 vB or TrueView 539 if they don’t want DJI)
- DJI Matrice 400 — enterprise mapping platform
- Emlid RS4 base/rover — GNSS positioning kit
- GeoCue LP360 Drone + AI Ground+ — automated ground/terrain classification
- Outputs: DTM/DEM, cut/fill volumes, 3D accuracy control report
- Advanced LiDAR Course
- Ground Control Point (GCP) Targets Kit — ties survey to design coordinates
CANADA MADE
NORTH AMERICAN PACKAGE
For customers whose contract, agency, or internal policy requires a fully NDAA-compliant platform and sensor stack.
- Inspired Flight IF800 Blue — 3 kg payload
- Freefly Astro Map + Pilot Pro - High-Resolution Mapping Drone Kit
- Emlid RS4 base/rover — GNSS positioning kit
- IF800 - Blue Herelink + Sentera 65R Bundle
- Paired with GeoCue TrueView sensors + LP360 (AI Ground+) — NDAA end to end TV1 NDAA or TrueView 651 NDAA
- GeoCue LP360 Drone + AI Ground+ — automated ground/terrain classification
- Ground Control Point (GCP) Targets Kit — ties survey to design coordinates
THE SURVEY DOES NOT STOP AT Grade
The flight gives you the surface. It does not give you the underside of a bridge deck, the inside of a box culvert, a utility vault, or a shaft. Those are GPS denied, and an aircraft that depends on a positioning fix cannot hold one in there.
Emesent Hovermap maps using SLAM rather than GNSS, so it works where there is no signal at all. Walk it through, fly it in, or lower it down.
The part that matters for your deliverable is what happens next. One project, two capture methods, one coordinate system. The aerial survey and the confined space scan register into the same dataset instead of sitting in two files nobody reconciles.
Bridge soffits and bearings. Box culverts and storm systems. Tunnels and shafts. Utility vaults and chambers. Material stored under cover. Anywhere the inspection currently means putting a person somewhere unpleasant.
NOT EVERY SITE NEEDS LiDAR.
It earns its place where vegetation penetration, complex micro-topography, or tighter vertical accuracy is the actual requirement. Photogrammetry handles a large share of this work properly and costs less to fly and less to process.
The answer depends on canopy, surface, and what the deliverable has to support. Anyone giving you that answer before asking about the site is selling, not advising.
TALK THROUGH YOUR SITEVertical Expert Coty Hollinger
18 years across western Canada in project management, civil design, geomatics, remote sensing and construction oversight. He has built geomatics and remote sensing programs from concept to execution.
Jivraj Grewal is a Drone Solutions Specialist at Candrone. He works with civil, construction, and infrastructure teams to build and expand their UAV programs, with a focus on matching the right platform to each project's needs. He has guided a municipal agency through launching its drone program from the ground up. With experience in the counter-UAV industry, Jivraj offers well-rounded knowledge of both drone capabilities and risk mitigation, making him a reliable resource for teams seeking practical, effective drone solutions.
No, and we would not sell it to you on that basis. It expands what your program covers in a season. Your crew still runs the control, the stakeout, and everything that needs a person on the ground.
It depends on the control, not the aircraft. [Rest of answer to come from Matt]
[To come from Coty]
Often no. The deciding factors are canopy, surface, and what the deliverable has to support.
No. It connects. [Matt to verify]
Advanced RPAS Operations is the working default for civil sites.
Yes, weekly on most of the fleet. Rental is how most crews make the decision, not a consolation prize.
Yes. Our crew runs one-off sites and recurring capture. This is the answer when there is no capacity and no capital budget.
WHAT IS THE SITE THAT KEEPS Slipping?
Tell us about it. We will tell you what it takes, whether that is a demo, a rental, or our crew flying it. No obligation and no quote until you ask for one.
