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Solar Commissioning Inspections: Why they’re important and how to perform them.
Solar PV Commissioning and Aerial Thermography Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems are the world’s fastest-growing source of renewable energy, holding an annual growth rate of 50% over the last 10 years. Due to the increased number of solar PV...
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What is high-quality imagery (data) in solar construction monitoring?
Using drones and software to monitor the progress of a solar construction project allows for exact and up-to-date measurements on its current status. However, high-quality imagery (data) is required to fully benefit from solar construction monitoring software....
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How Solar Construction Monitoring Software Benefits Asset Owners, EPCs, Engineers, and DSPs
Benefit from Optimization Solar PV is one of the world's fastest-growing sources of renewable energy, with 2.1 GW installed during Q2 of 2019 in the United States alone. As the amount of PV installations increase, the construction process will need to be...
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9 Questions to Ask a Drone Service Provider Before You Hire Them
Today, in the solar industry there are hundreds of drone service providers (DSP) offering aerial inspection services, ranging in quality, experience, deliverables, and price. To ensure you’re getting the most value from each inspection, you should qualify the...
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Webinar Recap: Live Q&A with Raptor Maps and FLIR: Thermal Drones and Solar Inspections
Raptor Maps partnered with Gresco for a webinar covering the specifics of UAS, Solar Software, and PV System Inspection Reports. The webinar covered topics including why UAS (drones) are a valuable tool for solar farm maintenance, recommended hardware, and how teams can turn drone data into actionable reports.
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How Drones can be Used to Support Solar Inspections for Warranties
Aerial PV system inspections can be used for a variety of applications and reasons. The purpose of this blog post is to discuss the benefits of using drones and Raptor Maps for the inspections of sites for warranty reasons.
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Raptor Maps and FLIR: Limitations of Thermal Drone Inspections
Raptor Maps partnered with FLIR for a five-part series with four videos and a live Q&A webinar on the use of thermal drones for solar inspection. The 4 part video series covers a variety of topics, this one highlights the limitations that need to be considered before performing a solar PV inspection with your thermal drone.
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Raptor Maps and FLIR: Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Service Provider
Raptor Maps partnered with FLIR for a five-part series with four videos and a live Q&A webinar on the use of thermal drones for solar inspection. The 4 part video series covers a variety of topics, this one offers the questions that will give you an idea of the service provider’s quality and experience.
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Raptor Maps and FLIR: Thermal Drone Best Practices
Raptor Maps partnered with FLIR for a five-part series with four videos and a live Q&A webinar on the use of thermal drones for solar inspection. The 4 part video series covers a variety of topics, we explain the best practices to follow when performing your solar inspections with thermal drones.
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Raptor Maps and FLIR: Value of Adding Thermal for Solar Inspection
Raptor Maps partnered with FLIR for a five-part series with four videos and a live Q&A webinar on the use of thermal drones for solar inspection. The 4 part video series covers a variety of topics, this one breaks down the multitude of benefits that come from using thermal drones when performing your solar inspections.
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How to Inspect Your Solar Farm at the Right Altitude
Understanding GSD (AKA Thermal Image Resolution) and How Altitude Affects Your Inspection Costs and Efficiency Important Aspects to Successfully Inspect a Solar Farm: Part 2 This is our second post in the series highlighting some of the most important...
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Raptor Maps Closes Investment to Boost Solar Farm Output and Improve Project Finance
Raptor Maps, the global leader in aerial inspection software for solar systems, announced a new round of funding from veteran energy investors. The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, specializing in data-led energy investments, with participation from Congruent Ventures and Powerhouse Ventures, and previous investor Y Combinator.
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Raptor Maps and senseFly Partner to Deliver Best In Class Thermal Drone Inspection Solution
We’re excited to announce that Raptor Maps, a Boston-based enterprise software company, has partnered with the Swiss-based drone provider senseFLY on the new senseFLY Solar 360. The collaboration between the two companies brings artificial intelligence solar software to industry-leading fixed wing drones. The automated thermal drone solution, combined with Raptor Maps’ software, is designed to maximize efficiency of solar farm inspections.
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Major Solar Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Provider SOLV, Inc., a Swinerton Company, Selects Raptor Maps as its Partner for Nationwide Drone Inspections
Raptor Maps is proud to announce that is has been chosen to support SOLV’s drone operations in regards to post-processing and reporting on PV plant inspections. Raptor Maps software will be used for all commercial, industrial, and utility-scale solar installations managed by the SOLV team across the US, totaling over 4 GW of solar PV assets.
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How to Inspect a Solar Farm FASTER
This is the first of several articles to help you understand how to successfully inspect a solar farm with a drone and thermal camera. The goal of this specific post is to clarify how to reduce your drone solar inspection and flight time by more than 75% by adjusting the sidelap (lateral overlap) of your drone flight to 20%.
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Solar Software Industry Leaders Raptor Maps will Support Cypress Creek Renewables’ Self-Operated Drone Inspections
Raptor Maps is excited to announce that it has reached an agreement with one of the US’ leading solar companies, Cypress Creek Renewables, to support their internal UAS team with data-analytics and reports from PV plant inspections.
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Raptor Maps Releases 2019 Global Solar Aerial Thermography Report
Raptor Maps releases a first of its kind industry report on the factors that most affect PV system production. The study encompassed 13 million modules across 300 PV systems, and includes equipment, environmental, and module findings.
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The fastest way to obtain your Remote Pilot certification under the small UAS rule (Part 107)
You may hear the Remote Pilot certification referred to as the “Part 107,” as this certification enables you to fly small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) as specified by Part 107 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. Passing the test and earning your Remote Pilot certification is a simple, straightforward process.
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10 Most Common PV System Anomalies Detected by Drones (Part B)
Solar companies are increasingly moving to UAS (drones) to replace field work that involes large amounts of time and money. Field walks, IV curve tests, voltage checks, and handheld thermal scans of modules are just a few examples of tasks being replaced with drones by Asset Management and O&M teams around the world.
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Opportunities for Drone Inspections in Solar: PV System Commissioning
The renewable energy sector has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the last few years, and PV (solar) has shifted to the forefront of new clean energy development. Drones will play a key part in supporting this continued growth. Using drones within the commissioning of a new PV system is a quick and effective method to assess the quality and operational health of a new plant.
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