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Drone Survey Cost Calculator

Select a survey service, area and acquisition target to check a current project Quote range.

Current reference Quote ranges · anonymous · no lead form

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Check magnetic, LiDAR or radiometric survey cost

Drone survey cost calculator

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Project total, including mobilisationAUD · including Australian GST
Full 3D flight routeIncludes ties, cloverleaf, turns and transits
Production survey linesPrimary acquisition lines

The same project, calculated exactly, while you are still on the call.

The calculator reads current reference Quote ranges from BlueCap Survey Portal. A binding quotation is prepared for your project geometry, terrain, day-by-day field mobilisation, equipment wear, cost, markup and GST.

BlueCap Survey Portal 2D map with a survey block divided into six colour-coded flight sorties and a sortie plan summary bar

Terrain-aware sortie planThe survey block is split into six sorties that all return to one start and landing point: 597.0 km total distance and 12 h 44 min airborne, with a 76% terrain time uplift already applied.

Screens from one demonstration project in BlueCap Survey Portal. The figures shown are an example of the calculation, not a quotation or a price offer.

The displayed range comes from the optimistic and pessimistic results of the current saved reference Quote. The line-km figure counts production survey lines; mobilisation, tie lines, turns and transits remain in the total project price. Dividing that total by production line-km gives a comparison measure, not a separate flight-only tariff. A scenario needing recalculation has no current price until BlueCap updates its Quote.

The calculator is also a strict public tool for software and AI clients.

Read the same current service, area and acquisition-target Quote range as this page. The public response provides the total, production line-km and average project cost per line-km without creating a lead.

GET /api/calculator/quote
GET /api/calculator/quote?
service=magnetic&
area_km2=400&
line_spacing_m=50
Current saved Quote

Browser, OpenAPI and MCP share one read-only contract.

Valid scenariosOnly the 38 published service and parameter combinations are accepted.
Read onlyReading a range does not recalculate or change a Portal project.
Rate limited30 requests/minute and 300/day per source IP.
Fresh sourcePrice, route kilometres, days and priced crew come from the current saved Quote and accepted plan; stale results show an explicit status.
Result boundary

Every displayed range still requires BlueCap review.

The endpoint reads the saved Quote for an example scenario. It does not approve an aircraft configuration, aviation case, field schedule or commercial scope.

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Start with your survey area and the data you need. We’ll help define the scope, review terrain-aware 2D and 3D flight plans, and keep field progress, processed data and deliverables together in the BlueCap Survey Portal.

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BlueCap Portal map showing a large survey polygon divided into coordinated routes for four aircraft sorties
Multi-aircraft survey allocationDivide a large survey area into coordinated aircraft sorties and review the complete route geometry on the map.