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American Terrain Solutions

Industries / Utility Companies

Industry

Utility Companies

Right-of-way runs for miles through terrain that's slow to walk, expensive to drive, and occasionally dangerous to be standing in. We fly it once and hand back the data you need to plan maintenance, document compliance, or respond to a storm — without putting a crew in the field to find out what's out there.

Corridor & Vegetation

Vegetation encroachment analysis along transmission and distribution corridors

Conductor sag and clearance measurement

Bare-earth terrain beneath canopy for accurate clearance calculation

Prioritized trim lists so crew time goes where the risk actually is

Assets & Inspection

Pole inspection and asset mapping

Hot-spot and anomaly detection on lines, connectors, and equipment

Substation and yard documentation

Right-of-way mapping and route documentation for new build

Storm & Compliance

Storm damage assessment across miles of corridor in hours, not days

Before & after documentation for insurance and regulatory reporting

Repeatable capture so each inspection cycle is directly comparable

Finding the problem before the truck roll

The expensive part of vegetation management usually isn't the trimming — it's sending crews to look. Aerial capture inverts that: you survey the whole corridor first, then dispatch against a prioritized list instead of a schedule. The same flight that flags encroachment also documents that you looked, which is half the battle on a compliance cycle.

After a storm, speed matters more than precision. A thermal and visual pass over a corridor tells you where the damage concentrated and which access roads are passable before the first crew leaves the yard — and it does it without anyone walking an energized line in bad conditions.

Sensors we use

LiDAR for clearance and vegetation through canopy. Thermal for hot-spot detection and storm response. Most corridor work uses both.

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