Elevate your vision. Aerial photography and video, orthophoto maps, elevation models and close visual inspections, planned around the permits each flight needs and delivered as imagery and data your team can use. In Mozambique, South Africa and Nigeria, drone work is subject to the permits each job requires.
Six services, from a single hero shot to a mapped and measured site. Corridor and land monitoring for pipelines, power lines and concessions runs through AfriScan. AfriScan is Afridrone’s land and corridor monitoring service; Afridrone flies the drone work.
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Aerial photography & video
Stills and cinematic 4K video for tourism, property, events and marketing, colour-graded and delivered ready to publish.
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Mapping & 3D models
Georeferenced orthophotos, surface and terrain elevation models, point clouds, 3D models and stockpile volumes for planning, construction and land management.
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Inspections
Close visual checks of roofs, towers, masts, pylons, turbines and other structures from the air, with stills, video and a written summary, so fewer people need to work at height.
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Consulting
Advice on where a drone adds value: flight planning, the permits and site permissions a job needs, data handling, and the right camera and flight pattern for the result you want.
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Training
Practical sessions on flight planning, safe operation and getting usable photos and maps out of your own drone. This is familiarisation training, not a pilot licence course.
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Repeat surveys & monitoring
Repeat flights over the same site, compared date by date. For pipelines, power lines and concessions, AfriScan maps structures and change remotely, with drone detail where it is needed.
Sample: T-9 replacement pipeline, Inhambane, Mozambique. Each 500 m of route coloured by its encroachment rating from the reviewed register: red high, amber medium, grey low. Route on a Copernicus Sentinel-2 scene of 2 August 2026 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), shown for location; 10 m pixels cannot show individual structures.
For pipelines, power lines, mines and estates
AfriScan: secure your land from the air, remotely
AfriScan by Afridrone is Afridrone’s land and corridor monitoring service; Afridrone flies the drone work. It maps the structures, cleared ground, excavations and tracks inside pipeline rights of way, power-line servitudes and wayleaves, mining concessions and project sites, from satellite imagery, drone orthophotos and open building-footprint data. A person reviews every result before delivery.
A register of the structures in each buffer zone, with every mark's distance to the line
Encroachment density rated for each 500 m of route, so crews start where it matters
Change between dated surveys, and cut-off-date baselines that support IFC Performance Standard 5 records
PDF reports plus GeoPackage, GeoJSON, KMZ and Shapefile layers for your GIS team
Satellite-based work needs no drone flight and is available in Mozambique, South Africa and Nigeria. Afridrone adds drone detail where it is needed, subject to the permits and authorisations each job requires.
Professional kit, careful flight planning and a workflow built to turn flights into deliverables your team can open straight away.
4KCinematic video & RAW stills
3DElevation models, point clouds & 3D models
GISGeoTIFF orthophotos & LAZ point clouds
PDFInspection summaries & processing reports
Simple packages
Fixed packages for photography, video and one defined small mapping site. Larger surveys, inspection programmes and corridor or land monitoring are quoted per project.
Prices in US dollars. Every flight is subject to the permits, authorisations and site permissions it requires. Monitoring a pipeline, power line or concession? AfriScan scopes it per project →
Permits come first
Every flight is planned around the permits, authorisations and site permissions it needs, and no flight is planned on an assumed permit. Afridrone is working towards the operator approvals each country requires, and every quote sets out what that flight needs and how it fits your schedule.
As of 26 September 2026 What a commercial drone survey needs in the three African countries AfriScan works in. UK flights follow the Civil Aviation Authority's rules for the kind of flight planned.
IACM · Lei n.º 6/2024
Mozambique
Drone flights are regulated by the civil aviation authority, IACM.
The Minister of National Defence authorises aerial surveys in national territory, and supplying the survey data to the client needs its own authorisation from the cartography entity (Lei n.º 6/2024, art. 13).
Commercial drone work needs an RPAS Operator Certificate from the NCAA, with ONSA security clearance built into the process, and each drone must be registered (Nig.CARs 2023 Part 21).
Standard conditions are daytime, within visual line of sight, at or below 400 ft and not over populated areas; anything else needs authorisation.
A summary of public rules for information, not legal advice. The sources are linked, and the full country guides on afri-scan.com list every instrument and its date.
Questions we get asked
What do we receive from a mapping flight?
A georeferenced orthophoto (GeoTIFF) with its flight date, surface and terrain elevation models (DSM and DTM), a point cloud (LAZ), a 3D model and a processing quality report. Positions come from the drone's own GPS, so the data is not a cadastral or statutory survey. Where a registered surveyor is needed, it supports their work.
Who arranges the permits?
Every quote names the permits, authorisations and site permissions that flight needs, who obtains them and how they fit the schedule. Afridrone is working towards the operator approvals each country requires, and no flight is planned on an assumed permit.
Are the packages fixed?
Yes. The three packages are fixed as listed, and Ultimate Vision covers one defined small site, agreed when you book. Larger or multi-site mapping jobs, inspection programmes and repeat surveys are quoted per project, and so is corridor and land monitoring through AfriScan.
We manage a pipeline, power line or concession. Should we contact Afridrone or AfriScan?
AfriScan. It screens the whole route or site from satellite imagery, with no flight needed, and a person reviews every result before delivery. Afridrone then flies the stretches that need detail, subject to the permits and authorisations each job requires. See sample corridor results →
What decides when you can fly?
Daylight, wind, rain and cloud, the airspace and the permits for the site. Drone cameras need a clear view of the ground, so every flight date is planned around a weather window and agreed with you beforehand.
Let's get you in the air
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