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Surveying re-flights cost mapping companies thousands of dollars and waste valuable field time. Poor ground control execution frequently causes these inaccurate deliverables. Many novice operators assume modern drone technology automatically fixes positioning errors.
In large-volume metrology, achieving line of sight over complex aerospace or automotive assemblies often requires elevating a laser tracker, inherently increasing the risk of measurement uncertainty due to vibration, thermal expansion, and structural deflection.
Elevating high-value surveying instruments, such as 3D laser scanners and robotic total stations, is necessary to eliminate line-of-sight occlusions. Doing so introduces significant risks to both equipment safety and data integrity.
