Operations

We can manage all types of operations, both mundane and complex.

Specific sites and adverse locations require advanced skills, aircraft, licensing and expert input. We provide all of it — and we do it under the same governance we promote to everybody else.

Where we fly

Difficulty is the reason to call us.

Drone Space is built around the operations that stop being routine — where the airspace is controlled, the environment is hostile, the site is live, the subject is sensitive, or the deliverable has to stand up under scrutiny afterwards.

Controlled and restricted airspace

We understand airspace restrictions, how to apply safety measures and more importantly, how to plan effectively.

Live and hazardous sites

Working plants, active construction, energy and water assets, quarries, transport corridors and confined structures — where the flight has to be planned around other people’s operations rather than the other way round.

Sensitive and public environments

Urban settings, heritage sites, ecologically protected areas and locations where privacy, security or public safety are part of the risk management considerations.

Work that has to stand up later

Where the output feeds a planning application, a claim, an investigation, a tender or a court — and the methodology matters as much as the data or captured imagery.

What we deliver

Capability, not just flight time.

The Dublin skyline from the air, with tower cranes over a construction site

Survey and mapping

Aerial survey, orthomosaic mapping and volumetric measurement, delivered in formats your engineers and GIS team can actually use.

A top-down aerial view of a circular building and its surroundings

Photogrammetry and 3D modelling

Detailed 3D reconstruction of structures and sites — for condition assessment, design, heritage recording and change over time.

The Poolbeg chimneys seen from the air across Sandymount Strand

Inspection

Close visual inspection of assets that are difficult, expensive or dangerous to reach by any other method.

Wind turbines on a forested ridge, from the air

LiDAR and specialist sensors

Brought in through our partner network where the deliverable needs it — specified by us, delivered by specialists, governed under one contract.

Ian Kiely with a fire crew on active duty

Support to front-line services

Operational and training support to emergency services, State agencies and European counterparts. Bespoke classes and workshops tailored to specific needs.

A drone team in high-visibility jackets carrying kit across Dalkey Island

Standing up your own capability

We provide quality training and hands on support to enable confidence and competence among your team so you can improve output and win new customers.