You didn’t get into survey work to stand around waiting on a battery.
With the Sony ILX-LR1 attached, the Vulcan SX covers just over 60 km in a single flight — about 60 minutes in the air, tested with a full payload on.
The real question
Most survey teams don't lose time on accuracy. They lose it standing in a field, waiting for a battery swap, watching daylight run out.
With the Sony ILX-LR1 attached, the Vulcan SX covers just over 60 km in a single flight — about 60 minutes in the air, tested with a full payload on, not an empty-airframe number. And when the job's bigger than one battery covers, the smart battery system means the next swap is fast, not a delay that costs you daylight.
One airframe. The payload you actually need.
The Sony ILX-LR1 is the standard RGB camera for a reason — 20MP RGB, dialed in for photogrammetry work. But not every project is a photogrammetry project.
PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Sony ILX-LR1
20MP RGB, photogrammetry standard. 60 km / 60 min tested with payload.
POINT CLOUD
GeoCue LiDAR
Same airframe, same flight profile, LiDAR instead of RGB. Already integrated — TV1, TV1 Lite, TV641, and TV539.
The mission decides the payload. Not the other way around — and not whatever your current platform happens to support.
Why teams are switching to Vulcan SX
RTK GNSS is standard, not an add-on. No separate line item to hit survey-grade accuracy.
Radar-based terrain following, built in. Satellite imagery shows you what the ground looked like when the picture was taken — not what it looks like today. The Vulcan SX's active terrain-following radar flies the terrain as it actually is right now, so your flight altitude tracks reality, not a stale reference.
No software subscription. Flight Deck comes with the aircraft. Your program economics stay simple.
DJI is out for federally funded programs. Vision Aerial is not. If a federal or federally-funded project just disqualified your current platform, this isn't a future consideration — it's solved.
Made in Montana. Built and supported in the U.S., not a knockoff kit with a sticker.
Want the full breakdown of Vulcan SX flying a mapping & surveying mission? Specs, payload options, and field data side by side — the printable version, no form to fill out.
Let’s talk about your next project.
Twenty minutes. No slide deck. Bring your actual project,
and we’ll tell you if Vulcan SX actually helps.