High Resolution Inspection - Above Surveying

High-Resolution Visual Inspection

High-resolution drone inspections enable your team to get a complete, up-close and real-time view of the asset from anywhere in the world. This innovation allows you to accurately identify visual anomalies such as delamination and snail trails that heavily impact asset performance.

This solution enables you to:

Maintain asset visibility

Gain a comprehensive inspection of your solar plant in real-time to ensure optimum asset performance

Pinpoint visual anomalies

Identify visual anomalies such as delamination and Snail Trails from geo-located high-resolution video capture

Target onsite issues

Improve overall maintenance and operations by targeting key resources directly to onsite issues that need attention

SolarPlayer Tool

Utilise the SolarPlayer tool to accurately identify and record visual anomalies to an accurate site map

Minimise time, cost and risk

Work more time-efficiently and cost-effectively whilst meeting increasingly complex health, safety and environmental requirements

High-quality data capture

Our high-resolution inspection captures accurate data by maintaining a flight height of 10-15 metres. The high-resolution camera is used at a maximum speed of two metres per second allowing the camera to record fine details. The visual data is geo-referenced with the drone’s position, allowing you to identify module anomalies and record them in their exact location.

Agile video playback tool designed

for solar inspection data

The SolarPlayer tool allows you to view your inspection data, identify visual anomalies and map their location within SolarGain. Providing your team with an interactive inspection and testing data platform to interrogate data.

SolarPlayer features

Zoom tool

The ability to zoom in and out of the video footage to get a closer view of visual anomalies

Snapshot tool

Identify anomalies and record them to the asset map using the snapshot tool

Playback speed tool

Accelerate and decelerate video footage

Viewing modes

Apply negative and greyscale viewing modes to easily identify anomalies such as snail trails

SolarPlayer Map view

SolarPlayer is synchronised with the ‘Map View’ of your site within SolarGain, allowing you to accurately record anomalies to their exact site location.

This enables you to:

• Follow the drone’s location in SolarPlayer in real-time on the map view
• Accurately record and locate anomalies within the map view
• Edit the location of the recorded anomalies
• Assign your anomaly to a new or existing module within the SolarGain digital twin

Video

Future-proofing your assets

Above have developed an innovative solution to visually inspect 100% of your solar plant’s modules.

Find out how Above is capturing the true visual state of each module to chart the rate of degradation.

Delamination

Delamination in a solar panel is the detachment of the laminate layers within a module, often identified through the presence of air bubbles. Air pockets commonly form along busbars and edges, These pockets of air can allow moisture to get between the cells layers leading to corrosion and component failure.

Delamination

Delamination in a solar panel is the detachment of a cells laminate layers, often identified through the presence of air bubbles. Air pockets commonly form along busbars and edges, These pockets of air can allow moisture to get between the cells layers leading to corrosion and component failure.

Snail trails

Snail trails are dark lines of discolouration along the silver finger grid, these lines are identified using our high-resolution UAV mounted cameras. Snail trails are a common indication of micro-cracks within the cell, depending on the severity these have the potential to affect power generation.