Fewer tower climbs. Better site records.
Easepect delivers drone, terrestrial and subsurface scanning workflows for telecoms operators — tower inspection, rooftop site survey, fibre-route documentation, microwave path-planning.
GSD on tower structures
Rooftop scan turnaround
Fibre subsurface as-built records
3D outputs aligned to project coords
Drone, ground and subsurface — captured with the same RTK backbone.
A telecoms operator's reality is layered: cell towers in the air, equipment shelters at ground level, fibre running underground. Easepect supplies a single capture stack — PIX4Dcatch + Emlid RTK + drone — that handles all three layers, with deliverables that drop into your GIS or BIM without a translation step.
Where the stack earns its keep.
- Tower structural inspection — drone RGB + thermal flights with annotated reports.
- Rooftop site survey — PIX4Dcatch + RTK terrestrial scan, BIM-aligned.
- Fibre-optic open-trench documentation (PIX4Dcatch + Emlid Reach RX).
- Microwave path-planning — viewshed and obstruction analysis in Global Mapper.
- 5G mmWave site selection — line-of-sight and street-level 3D meshing.
- Disaster-recovery mapping — PIX4Dreact rapid 2D after typhoon / flood damage.
- Coverage-buildout corridor mapping along railways and highways.
- Permit applications — high-res aerials for council and landlord submissions.
Why telecoms teams adopt this.
Fewer climbs
Drone + terrestrial scans replace many tower climbs — with documented before/after for every visit.
Faster site survey
A rooftop or shelter scan that took half a day now takes 30 minutes with PIX4Dcatch + RTK.
Auditable records
Every captured site lives as a 3D digital record — settle landlord disputes, equipment claims, audits.
Subsurface fibre
PIX4Dcatch + RTK trench-scan gives QL-A as-built records for the buried network — fewer future cuts.
What we typically deploy.
PIX4Dcatch RTK
Handheld terrestrial 3D scanning for rooftops, equipment rooms and shelter interiors.
PIX4Dmatic + Cloud
Aerial photogrammetry for tower 3D, automated inspection workflows, share links.
Emlid Reach RX / RS3
RTK rovers for survey-grade fibre-route mapping and rooftop reference points.
Framence Digital Twin
Photoreal twins of MSC, BTS and substations for facility ops and audit.
Global Mapper Pro
Corridor analysis, viewshed and signal-propagation terrain prep.
Common questions.
Can a non-pilot scan a rooftop or shelter? +
Yes — that is the design intent. PIX4Dcatch on an iPhone Pro plus an Emlid Reach RX rover can be run by a site engineer or technician with two-day training. The deliverable is centimetre-grade 3D, ready for BIM alignment.
How accurate is drone tower inspection? +
Sub-cm GSD on the structure with our standard payload. RTK GCPs on the ground anchor the model to project coordinates so successive inspections are directly comparable for change detection.
Do you handle the CAAS Activity Permit for tower flights? +
Yes — Easepect holds the Operator Permit and our pilots hold UAPL. We file the per-flight Activity Permit on your behalf, including controlled airspace near telecoms hubs.
Can outputs feed our existing GIS / asset registry? +
Yes. PIX4Dsurvey vectorises the 3D scan into Shapefile / GeoPackage / DXF / IFC for any standards-compliant utility GIS or asset-management system.
Brief us on your tower / fibre programme.
Tell us how many sites and the cycle. We come back with a fixed-fee quote and the lead time inside 24 hours.