{"product_id":"aerial-surveying-philip-angell-9798199173964","title":"Aerial Surveying: A Practitioner's Guide to UAV Photogrammetry, LiDAR and Reality Capture for Infrastructure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA picture isn't a survey. The difference is the accuracy report.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch of what is sold as \"aerial survey\" in the UK is not survey at all - it is aerial photography, drone videography, or unverified 3D models that look impressive and are metres from the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA real aerial survey carries a guarantee: tied to a national coordinate framework, accuracy measured against independent check points, signed off by a chartered professional. The difference is the difference between a deliverable you can build from and one that costs you a re-survey, a planning challenge, or worse.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by a Chartered Surveyor, not a drone evangelist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip M. Angell MRICS runs an RICS-regulated chartered surveying firm in the UK. He has captured 70 km  of Development Consent Order reservoir sites by fixed-wing UAV, monitored Reservoirs Act 1975 embankments to millimetre tolerance, flown river-catchment flood modelling at sub-50 cm bare-earth accuracy, and audited industrial-scale quarries from the air over multi-year programmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the methodology - the discipline that distinguishes survey from picture, written for the people who commission it, do it, and depend on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will learn: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe RICS Measured Surveys (3rd ed.) accuracy bands - how to specify the band the work needs rather than the best the technology offers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUK datums in plain English - OSGB36 via OSTN15, Newlyn ODN via OSGM15, and why skipping either transformation makes the survey systematically wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen to choose photogrammetry, when to choose UAV LiDAR, and when to fly both - with the multi-return principle that recovers bare earth beneath vegetation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFixed-wing VTOL versus multirotor - the crossover at 20 hectares, and why DCO-scale work is flown fixed-wing for capture-geometry consistency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGround Control Points versus independent check points - the distinction most accuracy claims get wrong, and the protocol that produces a defensible figure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfined-space inspection with collision-tolerant drones (Flyability Elios) - how the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997 make every avoided entry a real cost and risk reduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReservoir and earthworks deformation monitoring - measuring change at the limit of the method, where mm signals demand identical epoch-to-epoch discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to commission a survey: the five decisions that shape every brief, and how to read the accuracy report to tell a survey from a picture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the people who need to know: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCivil engineers, drainage and flood-risk consultants, BIM and design teams\u003c\/b\u003e commissioning topographic surveys they will build from\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDevelopers and planning consultants\u003c\/b\u003e commissioning DCO-scale surveys that must serve EIA, FRA, BNG and design at once\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAsset managers\u003c\/b\u003e (water, drainage, transport, energy) commissioning inspection of confined and difficult-to-reach assets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRICS APC candidates\u003c\/b\u003e on the Geomatics pathway preparing for technical questioning on measured survey, accuracy bands, datums and aerial methodology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePractising surveyors and geomaticians\u003c\/b\u003e wanting a structured account of UAV photogrammetry, LiDAR and reality capture in current UK practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat this book is\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA practitioner's guide written from inside the discipline. Every chapter is grounded in standards - RICS Measured Surveys (3rd ed.), CAP 722, the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997, the Reservoirs Act 1975, PAS 128 - and illustrated with eleven hand-authored vector diagrams drawn from real UK engagements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn aerial survey is a measurement, and a measurement is only as good as the evidence it is right. This book is the discipline that earns the signature on the bottom of the page.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead it. Sign for it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Angell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199173964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Philip Angell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852935999743,"sku":"9798199173964","price":20.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aerial-surveying-philip-angell-9798199173964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}