drone-site-survey

drone-site-survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction. It costs 40 tokens per session (5,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A drone-survey processing tool that turns aerial site images into maps and 3D data. It can create orthomosaics, which are corrected aerial maps, digital elevation models, and point clouds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure stockpiles and other volumes, monitor construction progress, create terrain models and point clouds, and compare the site with BIM designs.
Why use it?
It provides measurements and progress information from site imagery instead of relying only on manual surveys. It can also compare current site conditions with design models.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to measure stockpiles and other volumes, monitor construction progress, create terrain models and point clouds, and compare the site with BIM designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadrivenconstruction/ddc_skills_for_ai_agents_in_construction/drone-site-survey
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction --skill drone-site-survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.05591
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.02795
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00559

Measured 9d ago against content hash 83888614a47e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drone-site-survey scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

5_DDC_Innovative/drone-site-survey/SKILL.md · 645 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 645 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drone Site Survey Processing

Overview

This skill implements drone data processing for construction site monitoring. Process aerial imagery to generate maps, measure volumes, track progress, and compare with design models.

Capabilities:

  • Orthomosaic generation
  • Digital Elevation Model (DEM) creation
  • Point cloud processing
  • Volume calculations
  • Progress monitoring
  • BIM comparison
  • Stockpile measurement

Quick Start

from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import List, Dict, Tuple, Optional
from datetime import datetime
import numpy as np

@dataclass
class DroneImage:
    filename: str
    timestamp: datetime
    latitude: float
    longitude: float
    altitude: float
    heading: float
    pitch: float
    roll: float
    camera_model: str

@dataclass
class PointCloud:
    points: np.ndarray  # Nx3 array
    colors: Optional[np.ndarray] = None  # Nx3 RGB
    normals: Optional[np.ndarray] = None  # Nx3

@dataclass
class VolumeResult:
    volume_m3: float
    area_m2: float
    method: str
    reference_plane: str
    confidence: float

def calculate_volume_simple(point_cloud: PointCloud,
                           reference_z: float = None) -> VolumeResult:
    """Simple volume calculation from point cloud"""
    points = point_cloud.points

    if reference_z is None:
        reference_z = np.min(points[:, 2])

    # Grid-based volume calculation
    x_min, x_max = np.min(points[:, 0]), np.max(points[:, 0])
    y_min, y_max = np.min(points[:, 1]), np.max(points[:, 1])

    grid_size = 0.5  # 50cm grid
    x_bins = np.arange(x_min, x_max + grid_size, grid_size)
    y_bins = np.arange(y_min, y_max + grid_size, grid_size)

    volume = 0
    cell_area = grid_size ** 2

    for i in range(len(x_bins) - 1):
        for j in range(len(y_bins) - 1):
            mask = (
                (points[:, 0] >= x_bins[i]) & (points[:, 0] < x_bins[i + 1]) &
                (points[:, 1] >= y_bins[j]) & (points[:, 1] < y_bins[j + 1])
            )
            cell_points = points[mask]
            if len(cell_points) > 0:
                max_z = np.max(cell_points[:, 2])
                height = max_z - reference_z
                if height > 0:
                    volume += height * cell_area

    area = (x_max - x_min) * (y_max - y_min)

    return VolumeResult(
        volume_m3=volume,
        area_m2=area,
        method='grid_based',
        reference_plane=f'z={reference_z:.2f}',
        confidence=0.9
    )

# Example usage
sample_points = np.random.rand(10000, 3) * [100, 100, 10]  # 100x100m, 10m height
point_cloud = PointCloud(points=sample_points)
result = calculate_volume_simple(point_cloud)
print(f"Volume: {result.volume_m3:.2f} m³, Area: {result.area_m2:.2f} m²")

Read the full file on GitHub · 645 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 645 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 83888614a47e

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drone-site-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction (310 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 5,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.