VisionAir Production AB

26/08/2025

30/04/2025

The presentation of the VisionAir team continues…

“Ut på tur, aldrig sur”.
This is a popular Norvegian saying meaning something like “Out on a hike, always in a good mood”. Very representative of our Norwegian team pilot Robin Hille.

We feel that the work of drone pilots sometimes doesn’t get enough appreciation. It is not just about heading out for an afternoon and flying a drone. It also often means spending many days on on the road in challenging locations and conditions. Something that requires a certain mindset and positive personality. Robin is our perfect example of this.

Robin is no stranger to hard work and challenging conditions. The drone work is done on his “free time” from his primary job building scaffolding and maintenance work on platforms out in the North Sea. When working 14 day shifts, 12-16 hrs a day out in the middle of the ocean, he gets 28 days off in-between to come home and fly with us.

“It’s not a lifestyle for everyone, but it has suited me perfectly. You do miss out on events happening in the "real world" when you’re stuck on a steel island 300 km from the nearest mainland — a bit like Alcatraz — but the time off offers a lot of opportunities.
There are many requirements that must be met before you're even allowed to travel to work:
Basic safety training, including first aid, firefighting, helicopter crash survival, survival techniques in water and smoke-filled areas, plus regular health checks every two years. Lots of repetition to ensure quick and correct reactions in emergencies.”

Even if it sounds like the likelihood of any of these emergencies would ever become a problem during drone operations is small, we feel proud to have the expertise on hand whenever a situation would arise that could require such attention. And knowing we have qualified and trained team members like Robin onboard allows us to even consider taking on challenging job offers, and safely push the boundaries of what can be done in this industry.

Being the humble and positive person he is, this is what Robin answers when asked if he has any dream drone assignments:

“Ideally, I'd like assignments along the coast with equipment that works as expected, but I'm open to most tasks within my limitations — and with great colleagues, the actual work doesn’t always have to be fantastic.
In any case, I prefer to contribute to something positive that makes a difference for our customers and helps them make the world a little better.”

Every company should strive to have a Norwegian person with the “Out on a hike, always in a good mood”-mentality. Thanks for being part of the team on your “days off” Robin!

25/03/2025

It is time!
Documentation of the first ever GREEN LiDAR project in Sweden operated with a multirotor drone (non fixed-wing).

We have finally received permits from Lantmäteriet to publish our documentation of this milestone project. We are honoured to have been given the chance to pioneer this incredible technology together with Ystads kommun, as part of their important work to monitor and protect the beautiful southern coastline of Sweden.

What are the benefits of using Green LiDAR then?
With this setup we have the ability to gather bathymetric data of near shore waters from the air. This allows us to cover large coastal areas in a relatively short amount of time, without a reduction in the number or density of data points. All done with minimal impact on the environment, infrastructure and general public.

Being airborne also allows us to survey the oftentimes difficult shallow transition zone between land and water, a section hard to reach using multi- or single beam solutions from the water surface. This in turn makes the drone operated Green LiDAR technology a superb complement to multi- and single beam systems operating at greater water depths.

Setup:
Green LiDAR: Navigator from YellowScan
Drone: Tundra2 from Hexadrone

Yet again we wish to direct a big thank you to Ystad municipality for great collaboration and for the important work they do for our southern coastline.
We also wish to thank YellowScan and Scandinavian Drone for great technical support during this project.
Thank you also to The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) for sharing their tips and experiences being the first in Scandinavia to use this green LiDAR system.

We are proud to say that VisionAir is the first company in Sweden to make this technology available and ready for work.
Feel free to contact us for questions and ideas on how we can help with your projects.

Data collection, data processing, communications and visualisations including video production and photography are all done in-house.

13/03/2025

A large part of the winter has been focused around getting familiar with the latest addition to our toolbox, a bathymetric LiDAR called a Navigator and manufactured by the French company YellowScan, specialised in bathymetric and topographic LiDAR solutions. All powered by our new beast of a drone, the Tundra 2 from Hexadrone.

What is special about the Navigator compared to regular LiDAR systems is that it utilises a green laser as opposed to a red laser used in most LiDARs. Every surface hit by the red laser, including water surfaces, will be recorded as a point and added to a point cloud.

The major difference using the Navigator LiDAR system is that the green laser has a wavelength that allows it to pe*****te past the water surface and scan what is under the surface as well.
But as someone once said “With great power comes great responsibility” (Spiderman 1962). Operating green lasers requires special permits, licences and training, as the green LiDAR is classified as a 3B laser, which means it can cause permanent eye and skin damage.

And not only that, as this is first of its kind in Sweden and one of only a handful out the global market, speed bumps as well as much trial and error along the way are almost always guaranteed when learning a new system. We are proud to have had a chance to work with Ystad municipality to pioneer this new technology in Sweden on a project set up to monitor coastal erosion on the beautiful sandy beaches of southern Sweden.
More updates on the project will come soon.

Our Senior Advisor Andreas Myrin is the one who has spearheaded the data interpretation and put us in a leading position on how to work with the Navigator’s green LiDAR data.
YellowScan themselves has said that Andreas may in fact now be the person with the most experience in the world processing data from their Navigator.

Andreas Myrin:
“We have gathered a great amount of useful information and learned a lot during this process. Has it always been easy? Absolutely not. We have encountered many new challenges we did not anticipate before. But with that behind us I can honestly say that the possibilities with this technology are incredible. Green LiDAR has differences to traditional red LiDAR, and they serve two different purposes, making it possible for us to extend our mapping solutions now past the shoreline boundary. I am extremely excited to see what we can do with this now. But now being able to map out that critical and oftentimes difficult section of water from shore out to several meters depth is amazing.”

Big thanks also to YellowScan and Scandinavian Drone for great technical support every step of the way during this learning process.
We would also like to send a big thank you to NIVA (The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) for sharing their tips and experiences being the first in Scandinavia to use this system.

We are proud to say that VisionAir is the first company in Sweden to make this technology available and ready for work.

12/03/2025

Team-presentation-Tuesday

Drone-based surveying has revolutionised data collection, allowing us to cost-effectively cover large and sometimes otherwise inaccessible areas in a sustainable and timesaving way.
But in order to fulfil our clients needs we need skilled team members that can interpret and make use of the often millions of data points our drones bring back to us.

Today we would like to introduce one of them, our Senior Advisor Andreas Myrin.
Andreas is the kind of problem solver who does not quit until the puzzle is finished. Someone who is driven by creating order out of something others may see as a mess. With a background in Engineering physics (sv. Teknisk Fysik) at Chalmers university of Technology, (partly because his high school physics teacher told him that it was one of the hardest degrees one could pursue), Andreas has both an understanding of scientific and technological processes but also a general interest in understanding how all things work and are connected. All valuable skills when analysing drone data to create for example high resolution rock cut inspections, multi-layered forest LiDAR scans or bathymetric mappings of coastal waters.

With a big passion for nature and photography, and as a longtime member of the scouts, Andreas also spends a lot of his free time out documenting the natural world, both from the ground and in the air. Dream projects include taking our expertise in new aerial technologies and apply to nature and wildlife management, in an effort to combine the two worlds for a sustainable future.

We asked Andreas what he loves about the work he does and his answer was short and simple, “To give our customers exactly what they need”, (and yes, he did agree that this was a cliché answer but promised it was the truth.)

Andreas:
“When it comes to processing drone data we have multiple routes we can go to deliver a final product. I first ask our clients to define exactly what kind of information they would like to get out of the product we deliver, and then I want to do what I can to take that even one step further. The drones and tools we use can collect very high precision information. We already have the machines up and working, so I always strive to maximise the information out of that data and not just deliver at “good enough” level.”

We thank Andreas for being one of our technology wizards and a valuable team member at VisionAir Production AB!

If you have a project you wish to discuss, feel free to get in contact and we will be happy to do everything we can to meet you needs and beyond.

04/03/2025

Team-presentation-Tuesday

With the rapidly growing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for all kinds of operations, the requirements and regulations on the drones and their operators are continuously being moved closer and closer to the traditional aviation industry.

In our team at VisionAir we have several members bringing their expertise from commercial aviation.

Today , meet Dan Ekstrand, operations manager at VisionAir Production AB

His path into aerial work started at the age of 16 when he got a chance to fly a glider aircrafts (sailplane) for the first time. The amazing experience was all it took to get him hooked and Dan now has over 20 years of experience as a pilot for SAS. 
During the time he also became involved in the world of unmanned aircrafts which led him into work as a drone inspector at the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) with experience in areas such as permit management and supervision of drone operators.

Here are Dans thoughts on the benefits of coming from the commercial aviation side of work to doing what he does today at VisionAir:

“Having a background as a pilot is highly valuable due to the many synergies it provides. Many aspects of drone operations originate from manned aviation, such as how the EASA regulations are structured and how an OM (Operations Manual) functions, guiding the ex*****on of various procedures and checklists. Other naturally applicable aspects include the critical safety mindset, risk assessments, dilemma-based training, procedure-driven workflows, and airspace knowledge.
VisionAir is one of the few operators with an LUC (Light UAS Operator Certificate), where an SMS (Safety Management System) is a requirement—something that also has its roots in manned aviation. Having experience with how an SMS operates in manned aviation, including concepts like just culture, compliance monitoring, and reporting systems for identifying trends and hazards, is highly valuable.”

We thank you Dan for keeping us safely on track and up to date on every flight we do!

26/02/2025

It is a well-known fact that building a great organisation requires a great team. At VisionAir we are well aware that it is the versatility in skills and differences in backgrounds of our team that allow us to push the boundaries for the future of drone operations.

Today, let us introduce our Technology-McGyver - Carl Danielsson.

With a background in computer science from Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Carl has over 20 years of experience working at various positions in the technology space.

His passion for technology and airborne tools and toys has been with him since early childhood. 
As a child, Carl’s father got tired of having his son pick apart all of the mechanical appliances in the household so he actively moved Carls attention towards building model aircrafts instead. The new hobby developed into a passion that eventually led him to pursue a path to become licensed UAS operator and pilot, Specific Category, from Lund University school of aviation (LUSA - TFHS authorised drone school).

With the sky no longer the limit, Carl is both a VisionAir pilot and part of developing new technological solutions that will allow us to offer new drone solutions ahead, such as innovative methods for realtime data monitoring between our new Navigator Green LiDAR and our pilots allowing instantaneous communication of system operations and fails, and custom rebuilds of our older Matrice 600 drones to carry ground penetrating radar systems.

With a drone market that is still just in its infancy, we see great potential for the future. 
We asked Carl what his dream scenario for the future looked like:
“Being part of developing the next generation of autonome fixed wing systems, integrated with AI technology, to fly BVLOS and map out large, unaccessible areas preferably in the mountains with nothing but wild nature around you. And then set camp and cook your dinner over an open fire at night under the stars.”

Sounds good to the rest of us too! It is now on our VisionAir future wishlist. 
Thanks Carl for being a valued member of our team.

14/10/2024

Dag 1 - Uppdraget omfattar kartläggning av batymetri och topografi, och heltäckande kartläggning av kustzonen

03/05/2024

24/04/2024

I går hadde VisionAir Production AB debut på Nordbygg mässan och samtidigt släpper vi vår senaste filmproduktion, tillsammans med Teodoliten Mätteknik AB, baserad på Trafikverket´s projekt på Västkustbanan, "dubbelspår genom Varberg och tunnel under centrum". Här har Teodoliten tillhandahållit lantmäteritjänster till Implenia Sverige AB sedan projektstarten 2018 och sedan nyår har VisionAir tillhandahållit drönartester för projektet. Kolla in vår nya film, och är du på Nordbygg är det kul om du stannar till i vår monter B17:40 för en pratstund om ditt projekt, eller bara drönare, säkerhet eller tillstånd generellt
för att flyga i tätbefolkade områden.

Stort tack till vår eminente filmfotograf, Jonas Stenstrom för grym insats bakom kamera och klippning. Stort tack även till Jonathan Rybo, David Lundqvist, Sebastian Samuelsson och Marcus Höök för deras insatser framför kameran.

Filmen har spridningstillstånd från Lantmäteriet.

12/04/2024

Happy Friday!
TECH ABOVE THE NECK - Zekler

Selfie by our pilot Robin Hille