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Virtual Surveyor Brings Local Grids to Smart Drone Surveying Software

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Author:Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson

Starting with V10.2, native support for site‑specific grids arrives, letting teams keep their drone work inside the same project reference used on the job. In this latest smart drone surveying software build, local‑grid awareness comes built in alongside productivity tools.

Virtual Surveyor: Direct Local Grid Workflow

Instead of building transforms elsewhere, operators define their project grid inside the app and immediately align new or archived datasets and drone data to it. UAV photos and LiDAR point sets can be reprojected from GPS coordinates into the site frame for mining and earthmoving uses, ensuring consistent topography alignment.“You can send GPS‑tagged aerial imagery and laser scans straight into the local grid that your pits or earthworks rely on—no external reprojection utilities,” said Tom Op ’t Eyndt, the company’s CEO at Virtual Surveyor. “When teams cannot stay in the site grid, progress stalls; removing that obstacle speeds the workflow from field to finish.”

For the Surveyor: Tools and Plans

For design teams, Version 10.2 remains a proven environment for turning aerial capture into deliverables for construction, open‑pit mining, and heavy civil earthworks. It blends survey tools, drone photogrammetry, and a versatile design toolset, enabling outputs such as stockpile volumes and planimetric maps.

Licensing comes through smart drone surveying software plans with tiered subscriptions, including the Time options suited to archival, current, and forward‑looking 3D terrain mapping.

From the Virtual World to the Jobsite Grid

On many worksites, precision and practicality lead teams to establish a custom reference frame rather than rely on a national or global CRS set by a geodetic authority. Mining pits, excavation phases, and construction corridors typically run on a local grid so planimetric checks stay tight.

Global frameworks are great for regional context, yet projection scale and convergence can warp small‑site measurements beyond what engineering tolerances allow. To preserve elevation accuracy and keep CAD deliverables consistent during a drone survey, practitioners prefer a site‑specific frame.

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