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See how drones and data are combining to create powerful data sets

04 August 2022

How are drones contributing to our understanding of the built space? How is technology reducing ‘risk’ for building surveyors? What do me mean by high impact/low-cost property technology? How will the contribute of drone technology evolve over the coming years?

Steve Carrington speaks with Andrew Knight on these topics as they discuss the opportunities to build rich built asset data sets using drone acquired data.

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