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A drone landing pad is rarely viewed as an exciting piece of field gear. Yet, you must treat it as critical preventative maintenance for expensive surveying equipment. Many professionals ignore this simple physical barrier. They frequently place their hardware directly on bare dirt or gravel.
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.
A lost or degraded control point creates severe problems for your crew. It requires costly remobilization and breaks traverse continuity. You also face heavy legal liabilities during boundary disputes if monuments fail. Standardizing field hardware across all terrains is a major mistake.
