Newquay is served by Newquay Cornwall Airport (NQY) , six miles north of the city centre. Direct flights are available from London and most other major cities within the UK, with low-cost airlines offering most of the flights.
The unit cost for one Predator is about $4.5 million, according to DHS estimates. But the costs of operating a UAV can become more than double the costs of operating a manned aircraft, said the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last summer.(See Homeland Security: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Border Surveillance.).ased on that figure, keeping one UAV in the air every hour of the year would cost about $28.5 million. Homeland Security Todayâs Mickey McCarter has written the most thorough piece on SBInet that I have seen in the past several years.
I do know that LIDAR equipment can be very expensive. I know one man in my area who actually has a Leica Geosystems camera/LIDAR package in his Cessna 206. The camera/LIDAR unit alone cost $1.8 million. Soooo...my guess is that getting a LIDAR unit for a drone isn't going to be a cheap endeavor. The research I have been doing all points to sites like Drone Mapper for aerial imagery and elevation analysis of UAV/drone imagery.