Scanlink for Telecom

Streamline cell tower data capture for creating high quality digital twins.

A drone controller showing a Scanlink tower mission in progress, beside the cell tower being scanned.

Tower Data Capture for 3D Modeling

Fly automated cell tower missions optimized to capture all the data required for 3D modeling. Support for orbits, columns, and spirals around monopoles, lattice self-supports and guyed towers.

3D mission preview of a tower scan: a blue spiral flight path winds around a yellow cylinder representing the tower, with red exclusion volumes marking the compound below.

Produce Consistent Results and Reduce Time On-Site

Use automation to ensure the correct data is captured the same way every time, ensuring that you can produce high quality data processing results. Minimize the need to re-fly sites that were not correctly captured.

Photogrammetry 3D model of a cell tower head, showing individual antenna panels, remote radio units and mounting brackets reconstructed in detail.

How Does Scanlink Work?

Pilots follow simple step-by-step instructions to setup each tower site using the drone. Then Dronelink generates the mission based on your unique capture requirements and then pilots run the mission.

Scanlink guided setup in the Dronelink app: the live drone view of a tower's antenna array on the left, and a numbered 'Mark each RAD Height' instruction panel with recorded heights on the right.

Recommended Drones and Devices

The DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise is the ideal drone, with a fast mechanical shutter, allowing for faster flight times without compromising quality. Other drones are supported but will produce lower quality results and require more time on-site.

Three DJI drones arranged on a plain background: a large enterprise quadcopter with a gimbal camera, a white Phantom-style quadcopter, and a folding grey quadcopter.

Custom Capture Specifications

Create one or multiple capture specifications for varying requirements. Choose between orbits, columns, and spirals, set image overlaps, fly one or multiple camera angles, configure sample distance, or add a orthomosaic or 360 pano.

3D mission preview of a column-pattern tower capture: a blue grid of vertical capture columns surrounds a red tower volume, with the yellow site compound marked below.

Real-Time Adjustments, Obstacles, and Resuming

Powerful features from years of experience flying towers. Add obstacles to better image the compound, adjust the EV, yaw, altitude, and drone position during flight, recenter the tower after battery swaps, and intelligent resuming around obstacles.

Dronelink's manual flight screen looking straight down on a tower top, beside a 'Georectify Mission' panel with numbered steps for re-centring the tower after a battery swap.