Aerial Bridge Inspection
                     Aerial 
Bridge 
Inspection
As a leader in digital, film, and 
LiDAR surveys, Keystone Aerial is 
familiar with the difficulties posed 
by bridge inspection work.
For the Delaware River Bay 
Authority, they regularly conduct 
aerial inspection surveys to assess 
the needs for infrastructure and 
preventative maintenance because 
they are based close to the Upper 
Delaware River.
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Engineers have historically been 
responsible for conducting yearly 
on-site inspections of bridges. An 
exhausting and expensive process 
that frequently necessitates full or 
partial bridge closures for 
protracted periods of time
Engineers' concerns about 
workplace safety have been all but 
eliminated by the introduction of 
UAV inspection, as has the 
requirement to halt traffic during 
the mission..
Keystone needs Unmanned Aerial 
Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, as a 
solution because piloted aircraft 
are not allowed to fly any closer 
than 1,000 feet (under Visual Flight 
Rules) and because of the danger 
of doing so in order to obtain 
detailed imagery of bridge 
structures.
UAVs offer stable platforms for a 
variety of optical and thermal 
sensors and can be quickly 
deployed and manned. They also 
pose few risks.
These aerial platforms, which are 
equipped with Phase One's iXM-100 
metric camera, produce priceless 
aerial imagery data that enables 
predictive maintenance for inspection 
missions of many different types of 
structures, including bridges, power 
lines, wind turbines, roads, forestry, 
and agriculture.
 
Analyses of acquired digital images 
can be performed for a fraction of 
the price of manned inspections.
 It is essential to conduct thorough 
inspections of aging infrastructure 
and swiftly spot fundamental flaws.