Some of the Application Fields of Our Drones


Here are listed the application fields one could use one of our drones on. Keep in mind that certain application fields would require outfitting the drone for the choosen job

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Properly equipped drones could reach highly accurate bathymetry results from 0.2m down to 4,000m in depth

Flow measurements using area velocity method.

Water quality monitoring.

Eutrophication control and monitoring.

Monitoring of suspended and compacted solids.

Real volume calculations for drinking and irrigation water dams and reservoirs.

Meteorology and oceanography.


Upstream dam wall inspection in all its depth and over the surface simultaneously.

Full inspection of irrigation and detention basins.

Hydropower plants loading chambers and turbine tunnels inspection.

Port related civil works detailed inspection and surveillance.

Underwater pipe and cabling detail inspection.

Structural and construction control and inspection in extractive platforms, under and over water surface.

Port outlet, piers and berths control for Port Authorities or general public owning them.

Degenerative condition control in port or inner waters related civil works, under or over water surface. (Biologic, chemical, electrochemical, mechanical, etc.).


Routine or continuous inspection of visitable and non accesible sewers. Under or over water structures, being completely fluid quality, visibility or solid suspended concentration independant.

Visitable sewers intruder security surveillance.

Sewage flow measurement in all conditions usin an area velocity method.

Possibility of combined surveillance in sewers with outlets to rivers or to the sea.

External and under fluid simultaneous inspection in visitable sewers.


Real time measurement of distinctive hazardous water quality parameters in rivers, shores, beaches, ports and drinking water treatment plants inlets, etc.

Security control in effluent outlets, processed or without control.

Mobile continuous and real time control of physical, biological and chemical parameters associated with hazardous effluents.

Possibility of stablishing links with fixed measuring buoys. Uncontrolled “micro dumping” prevention and detection, including the possibility of acquiring images, determining and following exact position of a potential agressor by means of movement detection, image recognition and real time data link, despite any visibility condition, over and underwater.


Possibility of deployment of a wide arrange of sensors and equipment, linked to the Drone or independant and dispensables.

Control and accounting of freight loadings and unloadings. Docking surveillance and monitoring.

Possibility of identification and recovery of elements that could affect the port and shore security, including simultaneous over and underwater image acquisition (Optical, infrared, radar, laser…).

Identification and alerts in ports about “new” elements attached to structures or ships, over or underwater, visibility conditions independant.


Faster and automatic inspection of zones without diver personnel deployment, remotelly controlled or automatic using preprogramming of route and search patterns. Sensor outputs and image in real time. Possibility of IFF systems integration.

Specialized reduced radar cross section vessel designs.

Possibility of deployment ant retrieval of elements up to 150 Kg. Weight on air, with high stability up to 2 m. sea waves.

Special hull and system protection panels designs to cope with high impact strenghts.

Triple redundancy and encryption possibilities in communications, including vessel control commands.

Wide variety of lenghts, breadths and powers fitted to each task, including low noise footprint engines with magnetic propeller coupling.


Automatic navigation, low noise footprint and reduced radar cross sections.

Possibility of detection measures and countermeasures deployment, passive and active, including threat response. (a.e. Decoys).



Real time detection, identification, positioning and tracing of fishing stocks away from the lead fishing vessel or deployed from every ship at the fishery zone. Aquisition of data concerning accurate position and movement of the interesting fish stock. Accounting of specimens, mean size and total biomass data.

Possibility of performing automatic (-and simultaneous to the fish tasks-) searchs, in order to optimize fish catches and minimize their costs.

Possibility of physical and biochemical parameter retrieval in the waters where fish stocks are localized (Temperature, current direction and velocity, salinity, turbidity, suspended solids…) in order to optimize the predictions concerning most probable movement of the fishing stock.


Automatic and autonomous identification and accounting of marine and river species. Surveillance of progression and movements associated to simultaneous measurements of water quality parameters that could affect the species.


Automatic identification, accounting and surveillance, optimizing personnel costs, of controlled breeding fish species concerning aquaculture industries at the sea.

Associated control of water quality parameters that could affect the industry, optimizing its results.


Search and rescue Drone deployment for, a.e. “man overboard” emergencies, alternative, with much less risk and at a significantly lower cost than a classic Boutakow maneuver.

Possibility of controlled delivery of life preserve floats and person tow back to a fixed position. Real time managed in whatever visibility condition.


Detection, accurate positioning, identification and image of underwater elements, down to 4,000 m. depth, visibility conditions independant


Digital Systems


In order to perform these tasks several sensors and integrated sensor arrays are used, always fitted to the target, environment and particular duties of each particular platform

  • High definition optical photograph and video cameras (Colour, B/W) water resistant for the surface and deployable for shallow or deep underwater operation, with “barrel effect” correction optics (Ivanov correction).
  • Infrared and thermal cameras, surface or underwater operated.
  • LED lighting devices integrated in water resistant cameras when applications require.
  • Multiparameter underwater oceanographic probes simultaneously retrieving bathymetric, temperature and conductivity data.
  • Real time position control and correction for sensors, cameras, deployable sensor platform, and systems in the three axes, including “pan”, “tilt” and “gimbal” possibilities.
  • Compact echosounders with millimeter resolution.
  • Digital image generation systems for objects, structures and underwater bed by means of high and ultra high definition side scan sonars (4,500 KHz up to 1 MHz).
  • Electronic compasses, inertial navigation systems in three degrees of freedom, speed, rotation, position, external movement, angular position sensors, etc. in order to assure the perfect and accurate steering of the vessel under all conditions, including avoiding obstacles and collissions.
  • High frecuency specific broad band ultrasonic transducers for bed inspection in rivers, estuaries and ports.
  • High and ultra high multiple beam bathymetric sonar systems for all visibility conditions, with integrated GNSS/INS positioning and 80 KHz broad band, including FM and CW processing and sound velocity profiler.
  • iLiDar mapping sensors with integrated bathymetric high resolution multibeam system, including the possibility of simultaneous integration of forward scan sonars, forward looking bottom and obstacles detection systems and side scan sonar systems.
  • Curved shape multibeam broadband sonar with integrated INS, fitted specially for shallow waters inspection in all environments and conditions. (Beaches, pipes, etc.).
  • Long range broad band multibeam real time sonar (up to 6,000 m. from 2º to 30º pitch and 180º yaw), with integrated collission avoidance system and movement sensors, fitted to underwater search and inspection in high seas, location and recovery of deeply submerged objects and maritime works surveillance and inspection, including piping, cabling and extractive platform structures.
  • 2D real time image generation sonar (video), with 90º to 130º view angle and 100 m.range. 720 KHz to 2,250 KHz, with integrated velocity sensors.
  • Bacteria sensors based on graphene sheets over gold electrodes (a.e. E. Coli detection). Possibility of heavy metal ion detection. (Mercury, Lead, Cadmium and Arsenic).
  • Specialized sensors for detection and mapping of underwater algae growth, including determination of perimeters, height and grow volume.
  • Hydroacustic sensors specifically designed to detect, follow and control fishing species, delivering density and distribution on ranges and distances, number of specimens and total biomass, integrated with bathymetry, algae control and classification of the sea bed.
  • Specific sensors for the accurate control of real over water bed navigation track, speed, drift and leeway by means of vertical beams and correlation.
  • Multibeam Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) up to 9 beams used to automatically perform flow calculations in rivers and estuaries, moving bottom calculations, and determination of suspended and compacted solids. Integrated with bathymetric systems and steering support by means of Doppler bottom tracking.
  • Defence systems specific sensors.
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