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Thames Aerial Imagery in Wandsworth - UAS London
Thames & River Marine Services

Thames Aerial Imagery in Wandsworth

Specialist over-water thames aerial imagery at Wandsworth for marine engineering, logistics, and creative media.

If your project sits in Wandsworth, we can plan and fly it with the river permissions already in place. Typical briefs cover vessel tracking, riverside development, bridge condition and event coverage. The river rewards crews who know it; a stranger to this water loses the shot to the tide.

River work in Wandsworth is planned against live traffic information, not a generic river chart. Where the shot demands it, we launch and recover from an MCA-coded support vessel. We bring spare airframes; a single failure should not end a tide-limited shoot.

Our crews hold marine VHF and stay in contact with river traffic while the aircraft is airborne. We can supply method statements for the principal contractor's file where the site requires it. Moorings, houseboats and riverside residents are given notice where the operation warrants it.

Survey data from Wandsworth is processed and returned within two working days. We are trusted on the river by operators including CPBS Marine Services, MMS Marine and the Dutch Master. We can point you at Thames projects where we have done something similar.

Marine Specifications in Wandsworth

High-zoom and thermal inspection payloads
Georeferenced river and foreshore mapping
Water-safety trained flight crews
High-wind and estuary weather capability
MCA-coded vessel launch capability
Tidal Thames skipper and pilot crew

Book River Filming

Drone operations at Wandsworth require Port of London Authority clearance and skipper-coordinated flight paths.

Request River Booking

Thames Operational Specs

  • PLA Coordination Managed
  • VHF Radio Pilot Logs
  • MCA-Coded Support Vessels
  • £10M Maritime Insurance
  • GPS Tracked Over-Water Flights
  • Wind-shear resistant platforms
RegulatoryCAA approved operator
Insurance£10M public liability
Experience1,000+ flight hours in London airspace
AirspaceNATS permissions for central London operations
RegisteredUAS London Limited · 16148461

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you insured for flying over water?

Yes. We carry £10M public liability insurance written to cover over-water operations, and can provide the certificate along with our CAA authorisation and a job-specific risk assessment before booking.

How much notice do you need for river work in Wandsworth?

More than for a land-based shoot, because PLA notification and the tide table both constrain the date. A week or two is comfortable; tell us the deadline and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable.

Do you carry out structural inspections on Thames bridges and piers?

Yes. We fly high-zoom and thermal payloads for close-range condition surveys of bridges, piers, river walls and marine civil works, and can deliver the output as an annotated report or georeferenced imagery.