BlueCap Australia
Drone Survey Cost Calculator
Work through indicative flight line-km, field schedule and survey pricing for an Australian or international project.
Indicative planning · anonymous · no lead form
Estimate drone magnetic or LiDAR survey cost
Drone Survey Cost Calculator
Drones flying in parallel One BlueCap field team operates the selected number of drones in parallel. Staffing scales to 5, 9 or 13 people and includes Chief Pilot, Operator Pilot, Junior Pilot, Spotters and Assistant roles.
- Estimated production flying days required by the selected flight line-km and number of parallel drones. Project flying operational days are calendar days when the field team is deployed in the survey area and conducting operational activities.
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- Estimated mobilisation period covering team travel to and from the project site together with non-flying and flying operational days.
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Indicative total · calculatingLoading estimate…
Enter the survey footprint and line spacing, then choose how many systems will fly in parallel. The calculator converts the equivalent square footprint into flight line-km, applies BlueCap's reviewed Australia rate and schedule model, and shows how the estimate changes when one, two or three survey systems operate in parallel. International mode returns one combined total and one all-inclusive line-km rate.
See what changes the estimate — and what the model deliberately leaves out.
The calculator turns area and line spacing into a transparent planning quantity before applying the reviewed schedule and rate rows. Keeping geometry, capacity and price separate makes the result easier to challenge and review.
The model uses an equivalent square and one parallel grid. It does not represent a crossed or dual-orthogonal acquisition pattern.
Survey area
The selected area in km² or hectares. For line planning, the model represents it as an equivalent square.
Line spacing
The distance between adjacent parallel flight lines: 25, 50, 100 or 180 m in the public contract.
Flight line-km
Area divided by spacing, plus one equivalent-square side length, followed by the 10% turn and transition allowance.
Parallel systems
One BlueCap field team operates the selected one, two or three systems; staffing scales to 5, 9 or 13 people.
Flying days
Calculated from flight line-km and BlueCap's approved planning capacity per system-day.
Mobilisation weeks
Selected from the same reviewed schedule rows that supply the indicative Australia pricing model.
line-km / system-day
Approved deterministic planning capacity used by the public calculation engine.
field team size
Team size for one, two or three parallel systems in this model.
total rounding increment
Indicative Australian totals round upward to the next A$10,000.
The calculator is also a strict public tool for software and AI clients.
POST the same six validated planning fields used by this page. The response includes flight line-km, schedule, staffing, price context and a Markdown representation without creating a lead or storing a project submission.
POST /api/tools/survey-estimate
{
"area": 400,
"areaUnit": "km2",
"lineSpacingMetres": 50,
"parallelDrones": 2,
"missionRegion": "australia",
"displayCurrency": "AUD"
}One calculation engineStrict JSONUnknown fields and invalid enum values are rejected. Anonymous and read-onlyNo estimate submission creates a lead or writes project data. Rate limited30 requests/minute and 300/day per source IP. Same modelThe public endpoint and the page call the same tested engine.
Browser, OpenAPI and MCP use the same validated fields.
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