Drone Mapping for Oil and Gas Pad Sites: What It Actually Covers

North Dakota sits at the center of one of the busiest oil regions in the country. The Bakken formation helps make it one of the top oil-producing states, with more than 1.1 million barrels of oil coming out of the ground each day. All of that work happens on pad sites spread across the western […]
Surveying Hundreds of Acres of Farmland? Here’s Where Drone Mapping Actually Helps

A quarter section looks simple from the road. Walk it, and the flat field turns into swales, old fence posts leaning the wrong way, and a low corner that floods every spring. Farmland hides its problems until someone actually covers the ground. For tracts under fifty acres, a survey crew can walk the boundary and […]