Automated Surveying for Construction Engineering

India being a land of diverse landscapes and one of the largest geographical nations inevitably faces the need to develop roads for easing transportation, facilitating human resource services and to bring the entire country on a common economical platform. However, construction of roads in rough terrains and remote areas still remains a challenge and involves a lot of time. Conventional Highway Engineering based surveying and road layout designing involves a lot of manpower as well. Here, the solution of automated surveying helps out. Automating the rationales of landscape surveying using UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) speeds up the planning, surveying process and at the same time eases the generation of EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) Report. By capturing the real time images of the target site and then processing them on a remote server to generate a VARI (Variable Atmospheric Refractive Index) value which is a type of vegetation index along with water body and settlement segmentation, a summary report gets automatically generated in minutes. This helps to cover some of the crucial factors associated with EIA reports in no time. Also, by using the location's height-map image, a proper terrain in the form of DEM (Digitally Elevated Model) to plan the surveying is generated which also helps in understanding the site's topology better visually.