Comparing Drone Stockpile Surveys with Manual Volume Estimates
How stockpile volumes are measured today Every operation that moves, stores or sells bulk material needs to know how much it has on hand. Gravel, coal, compost, grain, ore, or construction aggregates, the numbers drive inventory value, reorder timing, and shipping plans. For decades the standard approach was a manual measurement: someone walks the stockpile with a rover and a prism, takes a grid of points, and later computes a volume from those surveyed elevations. In th