... Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has the potential to reduce human involvement in a variety of inspection tasks and to detect structural and environmental damage. Besides, compared to conventional methods, the use of drones might be much more time and cost efficient. Moreover, faster UAV-based inspections should...

... of their assets, especially those whose maintenance requires operations to be shutdown. Inspections of this kind, typically involving hard-to-reach assets, used to mean costly scaffolding, Rope Access Technician (RAT) teams and helicopters. Based on a dedicated study, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) seems...