About

Dronesurvey Asia is a leading enterprise drone service and solution provider based in Hong Kong and Macau. Founded and run by experienced qualified drone operators, and experts across numerous technologies and fields, Dronesurvey Asia offers a range of aerial data capture, processing, and consulting services, primarily in the infrastructure sector.

Our expertise covers aerial mapping, photogrammetry and surveying, plus industrial and structural inspection, as well as asset monitoring and security.

We provide not only safe and efficient data gathering (drone operation) services, but also data processing, management, and analysis — including the use of AI and machine learning.

Consulting Services

If you’re looking to set up an in-house drone programme, we can also provides an independent, enterprise-level drone advisory and consulting service, with a range of services, including initial research and business process analysis, recommended implementation strategies, hardware and technologies (for both aerial data capture and post-processing data management), to personnel training, flight training, fleet management, maintenance and support services.

Operational Safety

Technology is improving all the time, but there are still inherent risks in any UAV operation, especially over confined or busy urban environments, or areas in close proximity to other airspace users.

To that end, safety and risk mitigation are top priorities for us: all our drone pilots hold the UK-based CDP-C™ qualification for commercial aerial operations. This allows us to secure commercial UAS operation permits from the CAD in Hong Kong, and the AACM in Macau.

In addition, we are fully covered by comprehensive third party liability insurance.

Technology Partners

Dronesurvey Asia represents and supports a number of specialist enterprise drone products and services from around the world. These are targeted systems, offering solutions specifically designed to enhance business processes in key industrial sectors. As one example, Dronesurvey Asia is the official Channel Partner Hong Kong and Macau for the unique Flyability Elios, the world’s only collision-tolerant drone designed for detailed, up-close internal inspections inside key industrial and infrastructure facilities.

This is a fast-changing field, and we are continually evaluating and adding new technologies. View our current offerings here.

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Team

Nick Foxall

Founder and CEO

Nick founded Dronesurvey Asia in early 2016, after building and operating drones for over 6 years, primarily in the areas of video and cinematography. He currently holds a full CDP-C drone pilot certification – a qualification recognised by the UK CAA, the Hong Kong CAD, all European aviation authorities – and has logged over 500 hours of commercial flight time on a range of UAS. Nick’s professional background is as an independent director of photography and cameraman for TV, news and corporate video assignments. He has shot and produced material for the BBC, National Geographic Channel, Al Jazeera, NRK Norwegian Television, ABC Australia, TVB Hong Kong, and many others.

Chris Handley

Technical Services Director

Chris has over forty years’ experience building and piloting both fixed and rotary wing remotely controlled aircraft and has built and flown SUAS since 2012. Chris holds full CDP-C drone pilot certification. As a former model aviation journalist, Chris wrote regular technical articles for “Model Helicopter World” and was the monthly rotary wing columnist for “Radio Modeller” magazine. With a background in product design and R&D, Chris is focussed on new technologies alongside the application of innovative SUAS use cases.

Karen Kwan

Business Development & Marketing - Hong Kong

Karen has over twenty years’ experience in sales and marketing in graphic, design and production. With a background of business management for multi-national brands such as Agfa, Huntsman and Hasbro, she focus on bringing cost effective drones and survey solutions to architects, construction and property management.

Jill Rigg

Business Development – Asia

Jill has extensive experience in business development, with a background as a pioneering facilitator of two key industry sectors in Hong Kong: human resources and real estate. The latter she took through to licensing of realtors in Hong Kong. She worked across contingency and search for many years covering the entire gamut of the construction industry (and later telcoms), and was instrumental in establishing HR in China and assisting in Macau. Jill was the first foreigner in China to negotiate JVs between foreign governments and private sector with State Owned Enterprises in China. She is both a founder and board member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Macau.