Soaring High: The Importance of Weather for Drone Flights
Understanding the impact of weather on drone performance is crucial for ensuring safe and efficient operations. Wind, precipitation and visibility are the three main limiting factors, however cold not only affects the drone’s performance, it can also seriously impede the pilot’s performance. The key weather factors for drone flights are: Wind speed: strong winds can […]
STAR: Launch Tracking Services
A new service from Shetland Flyer Aerial Media for visual tracking of vertical rocket launches at Saxavord UK Space Port. Shetland Flyer has been working with the Saxavord UK Space Port since 2019, providing a range of media and survey services. With the first vertical rocket launch from European soil set to take place later […]
Our Fleet: the right tool for the job
We operate a range of unmanned aircraft that are perfectly matched to the task in hand. With few exceptions (namely the M300 and M210V2) we have a backup system of each type ready to go, ensuring continuity should we have a technical issue or damage that grounds one system. For general aerial imagery, documentary and […]
Aerial Topographic Surveys: high accuracy surveying with RTK GNSS
Real Time Kinematic (RTK) is a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) enhancement technique that uses a fixed base station (either on site or remote using Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol – NTRIP – over cellular or Wi-Fi) to transmit correction data to a mobile GNSS receiver such as a “rover” or a Unmanned […]
Peatland restoration: Peatland Code field mapping
Much of the peatlands in the UK – including Shetland – have been degraded and eroded over the years by agriculture, forestry and commercial extraction. Peat is a very important carbon sink and store, but through drainage and erosion it releases the carbon into the atmosphere, becoming a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Severely […]
