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2026

26 October 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Petit-Saut: 4,049 emerged stems located and measured in one LiDAR flying day

19 October 2026Inspection and thermography

Heron Building, Paris: 4,046 façade and roof photos located on a 3D model

14 October 2026Construction monitoring

Petit-Saut sawmill: 31 monthly visits, three time-lapses and a corporate film

12 October 2026Inspection and thermography

Juquiá complex: seven dams in five days of reconnaissance, then the faces of Serraria

30 September 2026Inspection and thermography

Measuring roofs by drone before solar panels go on, in Martinique and French Guiana

21 September 2026Surveying and LiDAR

The Saint-Pierre coastline at two centimetres per pixel, with twelve ground targets

21 September 2026Inspection and thermography

Eleven solar plants, 33,333 panels: our panel-by-panel thermal diagnosis

18 September 2026News

Sentinel Cloud: our deliveries go online

17 September 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Canal de l’Ouest and Bois Chaudat lake: 34 reference photos and a 12 mm orthophoto to monitor erosion

15 September 2026Surveying and LiDAR

LiDAR under the Amazon canopy: the Matrice 400 and Zenmuse L3 join the fleet

15 September 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Crique Fouillée: locating the debris jams along 2.8 km of creek before dredging

24 August 2026Inspection and thermography

18,671 panels checked by thermography on eight ground-mounted plants in Guadeloupe

30 July 2026Inspection and thermography

Bellefontaine: 8,996 panels inspected in infrared beneath medium-voltage lines

23 July 2026Construction monitoring

Larivot bridge: eight drone visits to the repair works

16 July 2026Inspection and thermography

63 kV Bouillante – Sainte-Rose line: three pylons deep in the forest, photographed part by part

8 July 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni waste storage facility: eight drone visits and two time-lapses since October 2024

2 July 2026Inspection and thermography

Thermal surveys of five rooftop solar plants for Urbasolar, in Martinique and Guadeloupe

24 June 2026Inspection and thermography

34 rooftop solar plants thermally surveyed in two weeks in Martinique and French Guiana

5 June 2026Inspection and thermography

A 90 kV line at Matiti: 511 photos and 106 anomalies on five wooden supports

17 April 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Grand-Case aerodrome: a LiDAR survey at 30 m beside an active runway

18 March 2026Surveying and LiDAR

From Camopi to Saint-Laurent: seven years of aerial imaging for TDF sites in French Guiana

17 March 2026Inspection and thermography

Petit-Saut lake islands: ten night flights with a thermal camera to detect primates

22 February 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Jarry-Houëlbourg: 327 hectares of wetland mapped at 2.36 cm per pixel

16 February 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Four Maroni villages in three days: waste sites at 1 cm per pixel

12 February 2026Surveying and LiDAR

Galisbay, Saint-Martin: 30.5 hectares by photogrammetry, then the ground by LiDAR for the earthworks

4 February 2026Surveying and LiDAR

A 3D model of Cayenne hospital delivered in 24 hours for an architecture competition

9 January 2026Construction monitoring

Fourteen months of time-lapse on the Balata bus rapid transit works

2025

23 December 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Corossony: 1,472 concrete footings surveyed at 2 mm per pixel before a solar plant was repowered

9 December 2025Inspection and thermography

The Enfant Perdu lighthouse, photographed from a boat

20 November 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Inventorying the trees of a fully wooded plot, by LiDAR and photogrammetry, in Fort-de-France

18 November 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Coco Banane and Savane des Pères: 26 panoramas to visit two solar plants

7 November 2025Inspection and thermography

Le Moule: 7,704 modules checked by thermography, together with Antilles Drone

28 October 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Le Prêcheur: 32 hectares surveyed at the river mouth during the lahar crisis

21 October 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Two forest plots surveyed by LiDAR for the University of French Guiana, on the Approuague and in Sinnamary

17 October 2025Inspection and thermography

Peti dam, fourth campaign: 6 new cracks out of 4,052 monitored since 2022

14 October 2025Construction monitoring

Petit-Saut: a 44-panorama virtual tour for the inauguration of the biomass plant and sawmill

4 July 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Three social housing estates in Martinique surveyed in 3D and delivered in the architects’ formats

19 June 2025Surveying and LiDAR

Shading studies: 162 rooftop solar plants modelled in 3D in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana

25 February 2025Inspection and thermography

Three days on a hydroelectric plant on the São Francisco river, in Brazil

2024

20 December 2024Inspection and thermography

French Guiana medium-voltage lines: six photos per support, 1,262 supports in 19 flying days

28 November 2024Surveying and LiDAR

The three lakes of Kourou mapped at 13 millimetres per pixel

7 November 2024Surveying and LiDAR

Saint-Jean-du-Maroni: 125 hectares of the relegation heritage surveyed by LiDAR

11 September 2024Surveying and LiDAR

625 hectares in Saint-Élie, without a GNSS station within twenty kilometres

11 July 2024Surveying and LiDAR

A 7.7 km canal surveyed by LiDAR from a pirogue, in the Kaw marshes

7 March 2024Surveying and LiDAR

12,647 hectares of 3.5 cm orthophotos for the land agency of French Guiana

8 January 2024Inspection and thermography

Peti dam: 22 new cracks in a year, and how we count them

2023

4 December 2023Film and 360°

Six weeks with the Boréal long-endurance drone for the State services in French Guiana

20 November 2023Inspection and thermography

Furnas test blocks: measuring cracks at 0.15 mm per pixel

10 March 2023Inspection and thermography

Peti dam baseline: 4,052 cracks mapped at 0.8 mm per pixel

2021

4 May 2021Space

Ariane 6: ELA4 site, December 2020

4 May 2021Space

Ariane 6: ELA4 site, March 2021

4 May 2021Space

Ariane 6: ELA4 site monitoring, October 2020

4 May 2021Inspection and thermography

Inspecting and modelling buildings by drone

4 May 2021Space

Inspection in the Soyuz launch area

4 May 2021Surveying and LiDAR

Monitoring erosion with LiDAR

4 May 2021Space

Monitoring of the ELA4 site

4 May 2021Space

New lasergrammetry for CNES

4 May 2021Surveying and LiDAR

New LiDAR mission

4 May 2021Space

New test for the Ariane 6 and Vega C boosters

4 May 2021Surveying and LiDAR

Topographic surveys by drone: keeping control of your site

More articles in French

2023

7 September 2023Inspection and thermography

L’imagerie par drone à résolution submillimétrique : applications et avancées techniques

17 August 2023Space

Le pas de tir d’Ariane 6 se dote de sa propre visite virtuelle

2020

14 September 2020Surveying and LiDAR

Réalisation d’une cubature

10 June 2020Construction monitoring

Communiquez sur vos chantiers

8 June 2020Inspection and thermography

Inspection de bâtiments par drone

15 February 2020Inspection and thermography

Le lux aussi se mesure par drone

2019

20 December 2019Live launches

Lancement de Soyouz VS23 en direct

29 November 2019Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA250 en direct

5 November 2019Inspection and thermography

Maintenance du photovoltaïque par drone

24 October 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, octobre 2019

15 October 2019News

Inauguration de la centrale Voltalia

15 October 2019Surveying and LiDAR

Le LiDAR embarqué sur drone

8 October 2019Space

Drone lanceur de fusée

8 October 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, septembre 2019

7 October 2019Space

Réhabilitation du pas de tir Diamant

26 September 2019Space

Topographie par drone au Centre spatial

12 September 2019Surveying and LiDAR

Cartographie à Maripasoula

19 August 2019Surveying and LiDAR

Cartographie à Petit-Saut

19 August 2019Space

Inspection des 250 pylônes électriques du CSG

19 August 2019Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA249 en direct

15 August 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, août 2019

25 July 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, juillet 2019

18 July 2019Space

Inspection drone thermique pour Ariane 5

18 July 2019Space

Évolution du chantier Ariane 6

20 June 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, juin 2019

20 June 2019Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA248 en direct

1 June 2019News

À la une de France-Guyane

16 May 2019News

Nos images dans Espace & Exploration

14 May 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, mai 2019

2 May 2019Space

Largage par drone : validation et simulation

20 April 2019Film and 360°

Notre-Dame de Paris à 360°

12 April 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, avril 2019

4 April 2019Live launches

Lancement de Soyouz VS22 en direct

2 April 2019Space

Ariane 6 : album photos, mars 2019

28 March 2019News

Mission drone à Trois-Saut

28 March 2019News

Présentation de nos projets à la CTG

25 March 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, mars 2019

21 March 2019Live launches

Lancement de Vega VV14 en direct

17 March 2019News

Marathon de l’Espace 2019

27 February 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, février 2019

27 February 2019Live launches

Lancement de Soyouz VS21 en direct

5 February 2019Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA247 en direct

2 February 2019News

Sentinel passe le cap des 3 ans

31 January 2019Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, janvier 2019

28 January 2019Space

P120C : premier essai de qualification réussi pour Ariane 6 et Vega C

17 January 2019Film and 360°

La Guyane vue du ciel par Sentinel

2018

4 December 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA246 en direct

26 November 2018Space

ELA4 : chantier d’Ariane 6, novembre 2018

18 October 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA245 en direct

25 September 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA243 en direct

25 July 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA244 en direct

5 April 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA242 en direct

18 January 2018Live launches

Lancement d’Ariane 5 VA241 en direct

2017

12 December 2017Live launches

Vol d’Ariane 5 VA240 en direct

5 August 2017News

Nos images dans France-Guyane

2016

20 October 2016Space

Latitude 5 n° 112, octobre 2016

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