Mapping Inspection Resources — MIR
MIRAerial Inspection

Defensible Condition Records for Critical Assets

MIR captures close-range RGB and radiometric thermal imagery of towers, blades, arrays, and structures — organized into defensible condition records your team can review, rate, and act on.

How It Works

From Field Capture to Rated Findings

Inspections run through one accountable pipeline — scoped, flown, reviewed, and delivered by the same operator — so the record is consistent and traceable.

Scoped mission geography exported to KML, KMZ, CSV, GPX, GeoJSON, and TopoJSON formats
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Mission Scoped

The asset list, access, and inspection scope are defined so every component gets the coverage it needs.

UgCS engineering flight plan showing planned flight paths over a site
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Flight Planning

Routes are engineered in UgCS — standoff, overlap, altitude, and camera angles set per asset for repeatable, complete coverage.

MIR Blue UAS-cleared Freefly Astro in flight with gimbal-mounted RGB and thermal camera payload
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Asset Flown

Each component is captured in RGB and radiometric thermal from the optimal standoff aboard a Blue UAS-cleared Freefly Astro.

Scopito visual inspection processing and reporting platform
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Processing

Imagery is processed and anomalies are flagged, located, and rated by severity against the asset.

Scopito inspection reporting and delivery platform
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Delivery

Findings are delivered through a Scopito link your team can open in any browser — every anomaly tied to its component, annotated, and rated by severity, with nothing to install.

Field Hardware

The Payloads MIR Flies

Every inspection is captured on American-made, Blue UAS Cleared hardware — the same aircraft and calibrated sensors on each mission, so imagery stays consistent asset to asset and year over year.

  • Freefly Astro

    Freefly Astro

    Blue UAS Cleared Aircraft

    American-made airframe cleared for sensitive and regulated sites, flown with a redundant second aircraft so a mission is never grounded by a single point of failure.

  • Sony ILX-LR1

    Sony ILX-LR1

    61MP Full-Frame RGB

    Full-frame 61-megapixel images resolve hairline cracks, corrosion, and fastener-level detail from a safe standoff — no climb required.

  • Freefly Flux O1

    Freefly Flux O1

    Survey-Grade LiDAR

    High-density LiDAR captures dense 3D point clouds through vegetation and complex structure — measurable geometry for corridors, terrain, and volumes where photogrammetry alone falls short. Running Freefly Flow on the Astro, a measurable point cloud is built right in the field, so coverage can be verified on site before the aircraft leaves the ground.

  • FLIR Boson+ 640

    FLIR Boson+ 640

    640×512 Radiometric LWIR

    Temperature-calibrated radiometric thermal surfaces hot spots and anomalies invisible in daylight — every pixel carries a measurable temperature reading, delivered as geotagged radiometric TIFF imagery.

  • InCORS RTK Control

    InCORS RTK Control

    Survey-Grade Positioning

    Every mission ties to the InCORS RTK network and surveyed ground control — LiDAR GCPs and check points plus RGB GCPs and check points — so both point clouds and imagery are verified to survey-grade accuracy.

  • Laser Rangefinder

    Laser Rangefinder

    Direct Distance & Clearance

    When a photo is captured, the distance readout at that time is also saved in the image metadata.

Reporting Platform

Every Finding, Organized in Scopito

MIR delivers inspections through Scopito — the asset-management platform built for infrastructure inspection. Imagery is never dumped in a folder; it is tied to the specific component, annotated, and rated by severity so your team acts on findings instead of hunting through photos.

  • 01

    Per-Asset Structure

    Every image is filed against the specific tower, blade, string, or span it documents — so the record maps to your asset register, not a camera roll.

  • 02

    Severity-Rated Findings

    Anomalies are flagged, located, and scored by severity, so the most urgent repairs rise to the top and nothing critical gets buried.

  • 03

    Annotated Evidence

    Each finding carries a marked-up image and notes — defensible documentation your team, warranty provider, or regulator can review.

  • 04

    Condition Tracked Over Time

    Because captures are consistent and filed the same way, a component can be compared year over year — so a defect is caught progressing before it fails.

Zoomed detail crop resolving the H 8.8 marking stamped on the bolt headZoomed detail
Wide inspection capture of the insulator string and pole hardware (75mm lens)Wide
  • Wind turbine blade report showing per-blade damage maps, a severity legend, and a findings table in Scopito
  • Annotated power line corrosion finding rated severity 4 in Scopito
  • Annotated cell tower RRU damage finding rated severity 3 in Scopito
  • Radiometric thermal solar panel imagery with annotated hot-cell diode faults rated severity 3 in Scopito

Findings are delivered through a Scopito cloud link — review, filter, and export — with imagery as JPG, TIFF, and radiometric TIFF plus PDF and CSV reports.

Return on Inspection

What Defensible Records Are Worth

Aerial inspection is safer than sending crews up a tower — but the bigger payoff is what rated, documented findings do for a maintenance budget: the right assets serviced at the right time.

  • 01

    Catch Failures Early

    Find cracks, hot spots, and corrosion while they are still cheap fixes — before they become unplanned outages or catastrophic failures.

  • 02

    Prioritize by Severity

    Severity-scored findings tell crews which assets need attention now and which can wait — so budget goes to the work that matters.

  • 03

    Cut Downtime & Truck Rolls

    A drone documents an asset in a fraction of the time of a climb or bucket truck — less downtime, and fewer people in harm’s way.

  • 04

    Defensible Documentation

    Time-stamped, geo-tagged records back up warranty, insurance, and compliance — proof the condition was documented and acted on.

Start With the Project Objective

Bring MIR Your Next Site or Asset

Share what needs to be inspected, mapped, measured, documented, or reviewed. MIR will help determine the appropriate collection method, payload, mission structure, and deliverables — from flight plan to field deployment.