Drone Bridge Inspection Services
Advanced Drone Bridge Inspection Services to Detect Corrosion, Concrete Cracking, and Bearing Failures with Precision
Looking for safer, faster, and more cost-effective bridge inspections?
Our drone bridge inspection services deliver high-resolution data, reduce risk, and save time and money. At Recon Aerial, we provide top-tier aerial inspections tailored for the transportation, engineering, and infrastructure sectors—three of the highest users of drone inspection technology based on industry demand and investment. With thousands of safe missions flown, we help you spot structural issues early and keep your assets performing at their best.
Why choose our drone bridge inspection services?
- Pain Point: Risky manual inspections
Solution: We fly where humans shouldn’t, capturing data without endangering personnel - Pain Point: High costs from lane closures and equipment rentals
Solution: Our drone inspections require no scaffolding or heavy rigs, lowering your costs - Pain Point: Slow traditional inspections
Solution: We deliver fast turnarounds with same-day data capture and reporting options
Our service is trusted by civil engineers, and private infrastructure owners alike. Clients value our clear communication, quick response, and precise data that leads to better decisions. We use the latest imaging technology—including 4K video, thermal, and zoom optics—ensuring nothing gets missed.
When safety, speed, and smart investment matter, our drone bridge inspection services are your best choice.
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Recon Aerial Drone Bridge Inspections offer effective bridge inspection services to help municipal managers, bridge inspection engineers and technicians better manage the inspection of their inventory. Efficient Bridge Inspections are the cornerstone of every bridge management system, ensuring the safety and longevity of this critical infrastructure.
Initial Assessment with Drone Bridge Inspection Services
Quick, Cost-Effective Drone Bridge Inspection Services for Early Assessments
Drone bridge inspection services provide a clear advantage over traditional inspection methods. Quick initial bridge evaluations allow our clients to capitalize on:
- Safety – Drones eliminate the need for inspectors to work at heights or over water, reducing risks associated with scaffolding, rope access, or under-bridge units (UBITs).
- Costs – Significant reduction in labor, equipment rental, and traffic control costs.
- Faster Data Collection – Drones can inspect large spans quickly, reducing inspection time from days to hours.
- High Quality Data – Equipped with 4K cameras, zoom lenses, thermal imaging, and LiDAR, drones provide detailed visuals, enabling precise defect detection and digital documentation.
- Minimize Traffic Disruption – No need for lane closures or large equipment setups.
Drones make short work of revealing cracks, scaling, delamination, disintegration, erosion, alkali reactions and, other common defects.
The discovery of these defects on concrete piers, pier caps, headers, abutments, wing walls, parapets, fascia, soffit, and beams is made easier because they can get up close and capture the defect in high resolution.
As a result, the media adds to or forms a baseline record of defect conditions making changes through time and the associated risk on load capacity, readily recognizable to OSIM inspectors.
Recon Aerial Drone Bridge Inspections offer effective bridge inspection services to help municipal managers, bridge inspection engineers and technicians better manage the inspection of their inventory. Efficient Bridge Inspections are the cornerstone of every bridge management system, ensuring the safety and longevity of this critical infrastructure.
Recon Aerial Drone Bridge Inspections offer effective bridge inspection services to help municipal managers, bridge inspection engineers and technicians better manage the inspection of their inventory. Efficient Bridge Inspections are the cornerstone of every bridge management system, ensuring the safety and longevity of this critical infrastructure.
Innovate to Enhance Your Bridge Management System
Leverage Innovative Drone Technology
When it comes to keeping your bridges safe and inspection-ready, our drone bridge inspection services offer a smarter, faster, and more affordable way to get the job done. At Recon Aerial, we combine high-quality visuals with responsive service so you can get the data you need—without the headaches of traditional inspections.
We know the ins and outs of the Ontario Structure Inspection Manual (OSIM), and we’re ready to support your team with top-tier inspection media like:
- high-resolution images
- stitched overview shots
- stabilized video footage
- detailed 3D bridge models
Need to focus on specific problem areas? No problem—we’ll work closely with your team to target zones of concern and can even provide a live video feed so project teams can collaborate remotely and in real time.
Our drone bridge inspection services are ideal for regular maintenance checks, usually done biannually (spring/fall) or every two years to support your broader bridge management plan. Because our drones move quickly and don’t need heavy equipment or lane closures, you’ll get more inspections for less money—making every dollar count.
The three most in-demand drone bridge inspection tasks we handle?
- Crack detection and surface damage assessments
- Underside and substructure inspections
- 3D modeling for structural planning and repair tracking
Clients choose us because we’re efficient, flexible, and easy to work with. If you’re looking for drone bridge inspection services that combine quality, responsiveness, and great value, you’re in the right place. Let’s keep your infrastructure strong and your projects on track.
Bridge Modelling & Inspections
Here is an example of how Recon Aerial conducted drone bridge inspections for a client in Ottawa, Ontario. The original spec was to investigate the substructure of the bridge for nesting birds prior to deck reconstruction and to provide a preliminary assessment of the substructure condition.
In addition, we were tasked with creating a rudimentary 3D tie point model and mesh for export to Autodesk.
Drone Inspection Services
We pride ourselves on our ability to capture just about any drone shot. We have a lot of experience working with exceptional clients like you. Checkout some of the more common drone inspection service details for work we shoot regularly.
Principal Drone Services
- Up to 5.1 K drone video footage
- No Limit to Media (Photos or Video)
- Reshoot Free, if needed (but this is never needed)
- High resolution sensors
- Infrared inspection capability
- AI backed reporting
- Mapping specific sensors
- GNSS survey receivers
- Aerial to AutoCAD deliverables
- Site progress shots
- Live streaming 24/7 timelapse
- Mapping, earthworks and site logistics
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