Aerial Inspection · 10 services · 47 BC cities
Industrial inspection at height — without scaffolding, ropes, or shutdown.
Drone-delivered contact NDT — ultrasonic wall thickness, high-temperature UT, EMAT, coating DFT, pulsed eddy current for corrosion under insulation — plus radiometric thermal programs for roofs, solar farms, battery storage, façades, and industrial assets. Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilots, instrument-grade data, inspection-grade reports.
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Aerial NDT — contact testing by drone
Real contact measurements at height: the aircraft presses calibrated probes against the asset and streams readings live. Five disciplines, each with dedicated pages for all 47 BC cities.
Aerial Ultrasonic Testing (UT)
Contact UT wall-thickness measurement delivered by drone — corrosion mapping on tanks, stacks, and structures at height without scaffolding, rope access, or shutdown.
EN 12668-1 · ISO 16831:2012
Details + 47 city pagesAerial High-Temperature UT
Wall-thickness measurement on hot, in-service assets — 0 to 260 °C (32–500 °F) — without shutdown, by drone. Echo-to-echo and pulsed-echo modes with live A-scan.
EN 12668-1 · ISO 16831:2012
Details + 47 city pagesAerial EMAT Inspection
Electromagnetic acoustic transducer thickness testing by drone — no couplant, up to 4 mm lift-off, made for corroded, dirty, or coated steel where conventional UT struggles.
ASTM E1816-18
Details + 47 city pagesAerial Coating Thickness (DFT)
Dry-film thickness verification at height by drone — magnetic-induction and eddy-current measurement on tanks, stacks, bridges, and structural steel. No lifts, no ropes.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial Pulsed Eddy Current (CUI)
Corrosion-under-insulation screening through cladding — pulsed eddy current by drone reads wall thickness through up to 100 mm of insulation and weather jacket. No stripping.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial thermal — radiometric programs
Measured temperatures, not pretty colours: calibrated 640×512-class radiometric payloads with ≤ 50 mK sensitivity, visual overlay, and GPS-tagged findings.
Aerial Roof Thermal Inspection
Radiometric drone thermography over flat commercial and industrial roofs — trapped moisture, failed insulation, and developing leaks mapped before interior damage shows.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial Solar Farm Inspection
Hot spots, string failures, bypass-diode faults, and underperforming modules — radiometric drone survey of entire PV arrays without taking the system offline.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial BESS Thermal Monitoring
Battery energy storage thermography — abnormal temperature rise in racks and containers caught early, from a safe standoff, on energised systems.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial Façade & Envelope Thermal
Thermal bridges, insulation gaps, air leakage, and moisture behind cladding — full-height envelope thermography for high-rises without a single rope or swing stage.
Details + 47 city pagesAerial Industrial Thermal Survey
Heat-loss mapping on tanks and pipelines, refractory damage, stack hot spots, and district-energy networks — plant-scale radiometric surveys from the air.
Details + 47 city pagesWhy drone-based inspection wins
Cost
- · Up to 50–80% lower access costs
- · No scaffolding or lift rentals
- · Smaller crews, shorter campaigns
Safety
- · No working at height
- · No confined-space entry
- · Standoff from hot and energised assets
Operations
- · Rapid mobilisation, minimal disruption
- · High repeatability for trending
- · Digital, GPS-tagged reporting
Aerial inspection by city
Every city page covers local assets, airspace context, and typical aerial work.
Metro Vancouver
Sunshine Coast
Thompson
Shuswap
Nicola
Columbia
Northern BC
Cariboo
East Kootenay
West Kootenay
Northwest BC
Peace Country
Drone leak investigation
Mains, dams, decks, irrigation, storm triage — the leak-finding side of the fleet
Drone specialist hub
drone.leak.ca — leak-detection-focused aerial work
Drone thermal technology
How radiometric aerial thermography works
Utility locating hub
The below-ground side of asset intelligence
Aerial inspection questions, answered
What is aerial NDT?
Non-destructive testing delivered by drone: the aircraft carries contact probes — ultrasonic thickness, EMAT, dry-film thickness, pulsed eddy current — and presses them against assets at height. The measurements match what rope-access or scaffold crews collect, without the access costs, the work-at-height exposure, or the shutdown windows.
How much does drone inspection save versus scaffolding or rope access?
Access typically dominates inspection budgets. Removing scaffolding, lifts, and rope teams commonly cuts total cost by 50–80% on NDT campaigns and up to 70% on thermal surveys — and compresses schedules from weeks to days because there is no rig-up or rig-down.
Are your pilots certified?
Yes — Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilots with advanced-operations capability. Controlled-airspace work (YVR, YYJ, YLW, YXX, YKA and other control zones across BC) runs under the required authorizations, which we arrange as part of the job.
What standards do the NDT instruments meet?
Ultrasonic instruments conform to EN 12668-1 and ISO 16831:2012; EMAT practice follows ASTM E1816-18; thermal payloads are radiometric 640×512-class sensors with NETD ≤ 50 mK measuring -20 °C to +650 °C. Standards and instrument class are stated in every report.
Can you inspect operating (hot or energised) assets?
Yes — that is a core advantage. High-temperature UT measures surfaces up to 260 °C in service; thermal surveys require systems running to show faults; BESS and electrical scans are non-contact at standoff. Most aerial inspections need no shutdown at all.
Do you serve all of BC?
All 47 cities we cover for our other services — Metro Vancouver through the Island, Okanagan, Kootenays, and Northern BC — with the same province-wide pricing structure and weather-windowed scheduling.
Asset at height that needs eyes — or probes — on it?
Free phone consult — we'll scope the survey, confirm airspace, and quote it in minutes.