A drone’s unique ability to inspect infrastructure and other hard-to-reach places while keeping its operator out of harm’s way can be a lifesaver. Physically surveying on foot means traversing uneven ground, harsh environmental conditions, and dangerous industrial equipment. While it can take months to survey a 100 acre site on foot, construction drones can do it in 10 minutes, without ever putting a human contractor at risk....

Moving mountains for a new Kentucky highway project required both precise measurement and an accurate estimate of the amount of stone being removed. Beyond that, the treacherous terrain made for a dangerous job site. When the Kentucky Department of Transportation selected Kokosing Construction for a pair of sites for a new highway in Pike County, the Ohio contractor turned to Identified Technologies and its Boomerang drone mapping system. A single drone was able to map two separate 1,000-acre sites in Elkhorn City, Kentucky in less than a half-day....