Check the whole stopbank while the river is rising.
When a river rises, scheme engineers need to know where a bank is seeping or slumping before it fails. ORCA runs routine checks on a schedule and, when the river passes a trigger level, sends the whole fleet along the scheme at once.
From what your team does today, to what the fleet does for it.
The work is capped by headcount
- Stopbanks are walked or driven during an event, often at night.
- Staff on the banks are at risk as the river rises.
- Long schemes can’t be checked end to end in time.
One operator, the whole fleet
- The whole scheme is checked as soon as the trigger is hit.
- Engineers see issues with images and locations.
- Fewer people on the banks while the river is high.
Why this job needs more than one drone.
A fleet earns its place when there’s too much ground for the time available, when coverage can’t have a gap, or when people are the limit.
Before the peak
Issues found before the river peaks can still be managed.
The whole length
A fleet covers both banks of a long scheme at once.
Fewer people on the banks
The fleet does the looking while staff stay off unstable ground.
Answers your team can act on.
Not hours of footage. Each output goes straight into the systems you already use.
Who it’s for
- Flood-scheme engineers
- Rivers and drainage teams
- Emergency management
Scheme layer
For your GISEvery bank section, with when it was last checked.
Issue list
With imagesSeepage, slumping and damage, confirmed by the engineer.
Event record
Per sweepSweeps flown during the event, with river levels.
Routine history
Per sectionHow each section changes between events.
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See ORCA on work like yours.
Tell us about the ground you look after and where it’s hardest to cover. We’ll walk you through how a fleet would run it, and what a first trial could look like.