How Plex-Earth will help you as a civil engineer
Large-Scale Site Selection, with Multi-Image Mosaics
Our updated, high resolution satellite and aerial imagery can be used to identify potential sites for new development, such as buildings, bridges and even long projects such as roads or highways. This is because Plex-Earth can auto-align multiple flat photographs covering long or wide areas, correcting for the Earth’s curvature and placing them as a georeferenced background in AutoCAD!
The imagery from our various providers can be visually combined with 3D terrain data, making it easy to assess infrastructure and topography, along with other environmental factors that may impact both your design and construction stages.
Construction Monitoring, With Frequent Or Even Custom Flights
Once your project is underway you’ll find our premium imagery is updated frequently enough to monitor the progress of large-scale infrastructure projects, helping to keep things on schedule and on budget. For smaller projects or for more time-critical monitoring you can even order custom drone flights, directly from our platform in AutoCAD! This surprisingly affordable, real-world monitoring helps identify potential issues or delays, and then to easily communicate them.
Time-Based Photography - Stay On Top Of Maintenance And Repairs
The same frequent or custom flights used for monitoring construction can also help you keep an eye on the condition of completed infrastructure. This is made even easier with Plex-Earth’s Timeviews™ feature, where historical photos can reveal how things are changing. This allows for early spotting or even prevention of problems, leading to greater efficiency, easier scheduling and less downtime.
Environmental Impact Assessments - from Inside AutoCAD?
Plex-Earth’s imagery and terrain data makes it easier to assess the potential environmental impact of infrastructure projects, to identify potential hazards such as erosion or water pollution, and to develop mitigation strategies.
All of this can then be visually communicated with stakeholders, and note that our image providers offer a range of legal use-rights for printed and digital reproduction.
Conclusion:
Overall, the Plex-Earth platform can provide you with valuable insights into site selection, construction progress, infrastructure maintenance and repairs, environmental impact assessments, and making everything easier to communicate. By leveraging this data, you can design and construct any form of infrastructure more efficiently and sustainably, while reducing costly mistakes or re-work.