As a reality capture manager, I regularly use drones and drone software to quickly and accurately calculate the volume and weight of any stockpiled soil or material stored on a jobsite. This relatively new approach has provided big benefits to project costs and timelines.
Previously, we would rely on our site subcontractor regarding the quantity of a material that needed to be excavated, stored or moved.
They would come out to the jobsite and survey a given stockpile with a base station and rover. They’d collect a handful of data points by physically walking around the pile and estimate the volume of material.
