There are two steps to measuring stockpiles with drones – data capture, and data analysis.
The first step to measure stockpiles with a drone is data capture. First, you need to fly your drone, capturing high-resolution images of the pile you’d like to measure. There are two ways to do this. One is to manually fly a drone over the stockpile, and the other is to rely on drone software to automatically operate the drone capturing the correct data.
Step two is analyzing the data. Data analytics tools will convert the images captured into an elevation map which will determine the volumetric measurement of the pile.