About FAE Drones
We design the platforms. We survey in the field. We verify the deliverables.
FAE Drones combines UAV-platform development with direct experience in photogrammetry and LiDAR projects. For a surveying company, this continuity means a mission-specific configuration, controlled data and a clear route to delivery.
Drone-based aerial surveys since 2014
FAE platforms configured for the mission
Applied engineering
The same team understands the platform, the mission and the data
Our experience goes beyond piloting. Developing our own platforms helps us choose the appropriate aircraft, sensor and flight profile for the geometry of the site.
For survey projects, the control method, target accuracy and deliverables are agreed before flight. Capacity and accuracy claims remain dependent on each project’s configuration and requirements.
FAE timeline
Experience built in flight and in projects
The milestones show the transition from building and flying drones to aerial surveying and collaborative geospatial delivery.
Drone operations begin
The first flights and the first platforms for aerial photography.
FAE Drones is established
UAV development gains a company structure and a dedicated workshop.
Drone-based aerial surveying begins
Operating experience is applied to photogrammetry workflows and technical projects.
Photogrammetry, LiDAR and online delivery
Platform, sensor, control and deliverables are configured for each project requirement.
The 2009 and 2012 milestones are supported by public editorial sources. The start of aerial surveying in 2014 is a milestone from FAE Drones’ stated operating history.
The FAE ethos
Design. Survey. Verify.
In an aerial project, platform performance matters only when it becomes fit-for-purpose data that has been checked before delivery.
Design
Select and configure the platform, sensor and mission profile around the site and required deliverables.
The final configuration depends on payload, endurance, terrain, weather and authorisation.
Survey
Plan acquisition for GSD, overlap, density and geodetic control, then operate within approved limits.
Daily capacity depends on site geometry, altitude, weather and mission configuration.
Verify
Trace positioning and evaluate results through RTK/INS, control or check points and a QA report, as applicable.
Method and acceptance thresholds are set per project; accuracy is not inferred from geotags alone.
Why it matters
Fewer breaks between mission and deliverable
A team that understands both the platform and acquisition can explain risks, assumptions and how a client requirement becomes data.
Reasoned selection
The platform is chosen by area, terrain, access, sensor and required outcome, not merely by availability.
Requirements become a flight plan
GSD, density, coordinate system and deliverables are clarified before acquisition.
Control and traceability
Positioning and verification methods are documented in proportion to the required accuracy and use.
Usable delivery
Contracted files and online access are organised for measurement, review and collaboration.
Public evidence
A documented history, not merely a declared one
The press, research and public-project selection provides independent milestones. Commercial services are evaluated separately through method and deliverables.
The beginnings of drone-based aerial photography
A 2011 profile documents the start of operations in June 2009 and the first stages of building and flying aerial platforms.
Open source
Aerial mapping for infrastructure
The article directly connects FAE platform development with surveying clients, mapping, 3D models and linear infrastructure projects.
Open source
Aerial platforms built in Romania
A report on locally designed and built drones, with workshop footage and explanations of civilian applications.
Open source
Inside the FAE Drones workshop
A video report about the team, the workshop, platform construction and the operating context for civilian drones at that time.
Open sourceOnline delivery included
Your project stays accessible, not merely downloadable.
FAE Drones projects include 12 months of free access to the online delivery. Depending on the contracted deliverables, clients can open the orthomosaic and/or point cloud directly in a browser, take measurements, overlay vector plans and share access with collaborators through a no-account link.
The included period starts when the project is published in the portal. Access can be extended on request after 12 months.
Browser orthomosaic
A dedicated 2D viewer with distance and area measurement tools.
3D point cloud
Potree viewing and 3D measurements when the point cloud is part of the project.
Plan overlays
KMZ/DXF files and other vector layers can be compared with the measured reality.
Share by link
Clients, designers and subcontractors get access without exchanging huge archives.
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