Field-proven work

Drone survey, inspection & cleaning case studies in the UAE

Every project below was flown, processed and delivered across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE by the same in-house team. The footage is the deliverable: judge us by it.

▶ Case 01

01 · Infrastructure

Road and bridge 3D capture

Challenge: A civil infrastructure owner needed deck, soffit and corridor condition data without lane closures or rope-access teams.

Solution: Corridor photogrammetry and structural capture missions flown under GCAA permits, processed in-house into a geo-referenced 3D model with defect tagging.

Result: BIM-ready deliverables in days, a defect baseline for future deformation monitoring, and zero traffic disruption.

0 closures

Lane Closures

4 days

To Delivery

100%

Deck Coverage

PhotogrammetryRTK/PPKBIM

02 · Energy

Thermal inspection imagery and analysis

Challenge: Live industrial assets suspected of thermal anomalies, with no shutdown window available for manual inspection.

Solution: Radiometric thermal capture across the asset envelope, anomaly classification and severity mapping, flown around live operations.

Result: Hotspots identified and prioritised before failure, with a time-stamped thermal baseline for the next cycle.

Downtime

1 day

Capture Window

360°

Asset Coverage

Radiometric ThermalAI Anomaly DetectionZero Shutdown

▶ Case 02

Industrial tower digital twin with corrosion observations linked to a close-up inspection photograph — Illustrative AIN digital twin view. Open the video on Vimeo.

03 · Oil & Gas

Oil refinery façade inspection & digital twins

Connect RGB and thermal findings, specialist-partner gas surveys and digital twin records to review refinery condition and plan maintenance.

RGB inspection: Corrosion, coatings and visible crack indications.

Thermal / infrared: Heat loss, insulation and suspected steam leaks.

Gas / methane: Specialist-partner OGI or dedicated sensors, not ordinary thermal cameras.

View case details Scope a refinery inspection

Industry benchmarks

External estimates/examples, not measured AIN project results or guarantees. Scopes differ; no AIN clients or partners are implied.

Estimated inspection cost reduction: Up to 70%; Autonomous offshore estimate (2025). Aker Solutions
Estimated inspection time reduction: Up to 50%; Pilot-stage drone/robot estimate; asset-dependent. GE
Targeted visual check: Within 15 min; Handrail video, not a full-site survey (2020). DJI / Shell Deer Park

Side-by-side aerial comparison of a field in natural RGB colour and its NDVI vegetation-health rendering — NDVI · Red Edge · NIR
Spectral band capture rendered as crop-health zones.

04 · Agriculture

Multispectral crop and vegetation mapping

Challenge: A UAE agricultural operator was losing yield to crop stress that only became visible after damage was irreversible.

Solution: Scheduled multispectral flights producing NDVI and stress-index maps, with variable-rate zone files for irrigation and fertilisation equipment.

Result: Stress zones flagged weeks before visual symptoms, water directed where it pays, and a season-over-season benchmark.

14 days

Earlier Detection

100%

Field Coverage

2/mo

Flight Cadence

MultispectralNDVIPrecision Irrigation

05 · Construction

Construction Progress Monitoring

Challenge: A developer needed defensible proof of build progress across a multi-block residential city, without sending survey crews across an active site every month.

Solution: Repeat drone survey missions on a fixed cadence, each processed into a geo-referenced 3D reconstruction so any two dates can be compared like-for-like.

Result: A time-stamped visual record of roofing, solar and paving works completing across the site. Drag the slider to compare an earlier survey against a later one.

2000+

Images / Mission

1 day

Site Capture

100%

Site Coverage

3D ReconstructionProgress ProofAs-Built