3D scanning & LiDAR
Volumes of 15 Aggregate Stockpiles — LiDAR Drone
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Bulgaria
- Our role
- Airborne laser scanning with a LiDAR drone, pile separation by fraction and automatic volume calculation against the base surface.
- Surveyed on 4 August 2026 with a RIEGL miniVUX-3UAV LiDAR and an orthophoto camera — 13 strips, about 30 minutes of flight.
- Georeferencing to 14 ground control points, mean position correction about 1 cm.
- 15 piles of fractions 0/4, 4/8, 8/12.5, 4/12.5, 12.5/20, 0/40, 0/63 and 31.5/90 — each separated as its own point cloud.
- Volume, area and height of every pile against the base surface, on a 0.25 × 0.25 m grid. The largest pile — about 128,000 m³ and 23 m high.
- Total volume about 282,000 m³.
Deliverables: table by pile and fraction, maps, profiles, 3D model and an inventory report.
Results by pile in detail: Stockpile Volumes with a LiDAR Drone.