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# An up to date plan of a fuel station plot

Base mapping. Location: Saray, Tekirdağ, Turkey. Year: 2026.

The design of a fuel station in Saray (Tekirdağ) needed a current topographic plan of the site and what lies around it. The MapSurvey team produced it by drone photogrammetry fixed to control points measured on site.

## What the project needed

A fuel station is designed around what surrounds it: the road, its accesses, the drains and the neighbouring plots. So the survey could not stop at the plot boundary; it had to take in the surroundings to resolve entries, exits and surface water.

## Why photogrammetry with ground control

On an open plot beside a road, drone photogrammetry produces in one campaign the orthophoto, the surface and the base for drawing the plan. Ground control points measured on site fix the block to the coordinate system and allow accuracy to be checked against independent points, which matters when the plan will be used for permits. As a general rule, on this kind of plot LiDAR brings no advantage over imagery.

## What was delivered

Three products covering imagery, relief and linework of the plot and its surroundings.

- **Orthophoto**: Current georeferenced image of the plot, the road and the accesses.
- **Surface model**: Levels and slopes for grading, paving and drainage.
- **Topographic drawing**: Drawing base for the station design and its permitting.

## If you have a similar project in Spain

Ask for the plan in ETRS89 and your UTM zone, as layered DWG or DXF, with the extent widened to the surroundings your design needs (accesses, road, visible utilities), and the orthophoto as GeoTIFF or ECW with its GSD. To quote, we need the plot perimeter as KMZ, the margin of surroundings to include and the features that must appear on the plan.

## Technical sheet

- Scope: Plot and surroundings
- Method: Drone photogrammetry
- Control: Ground control points measured on site
- Year: 2026
- Executed by: MapSurvey, SensorFlight's technical partner

## A project by our technical partner

This work was carried out by MapSurvey, our technical partner in Turkey, measuring since 2015. In Spain, SensorFlight handles the fieldwork and the client relationship, and MapSurvey processes the data and delivers the models. Samet Bayram Gulyol, GIS expert at MapSurvey, is SensorFlight's technical lead.

See the original project sheet on mapsurvey.eu: https://www.mapsurvey.eu/projects/fuel-station-topographic-survey

## Have a similar project?

Tell us the area, the timeframe and the deliverables you need and we will prepare a proposal.

- Email: info@sensorflight.com
- Phone: +34 690 00 02 13