Topographical Surveys – Eiredrone is very experienced in producing solar farm topographical surveys. To date, the largest solar farm we have provided a topographical survey for was 600 Acres. Other deliverables that we provide with our solar farm topographical surveys are digital terrain models, digital surface models, 2D orthomosaics, 3D point clouds, grid of points, water run-off analysis, and shadow analysis.
All surveys are layered and projected to ITM and Malin head datums unless otherwise specified by the client. The orthomosaic is added in AutoCAD as a layer under linework to improve visualization of entities.
Thermal Surveys – Using the latest in drone technology we can conduct fast and very efficient thermal inspections of solar panel arrays. Drone thermal surveys can track issues at cell level, module level, and string level. Common anomalies detected are hot spots, shadowing, shattering and soiling, tilt tracking, and reversed polarity.
Capturing both thermal and high resolution RGB data in tandem helps to rule out common pitfalls like mistaking soiling for a hot spot on a panel and wrongly diagnosing vegetation encroachment as a shattered panel.
