Thermographic surveys were carried out of the cover of a non-hazardous waste landfill following episodes of the self-grafting principle and the presence of smoke and burning odor.

The survey took place by APR and thermal chamber at a height of 60 meters for the entire area of 24 hectares and 30 meters for the provinces of most significant interest.

The flight was performed at night in order to limit the interference of the sun and in the winter month of late January where the average surface temperature was about zero degrees.

The purpose of the assignment was to highlight the areas with higher surface temperatures around 20/25 degrees through the overlap of the RGB image obtained with diurnal flight and both the thermal image obtained at night and classifying the colors of the results.

The areas highlighted in red reported by our survey were inspected by the client through on-site surveys that showed temperatures above 0 degrees at a depth of about one meter and adopted the appropriate strategies to control the areas indicated.

• Project:  infrared thermal imaging 
• Client:  Direct Company 
• Place:  national territory 

For the execution of the work used the following instrumentation:

• Matrice 300 with Zenmuse H20T camera 

For the elaboration of the work the programs were used:

• Pix4D 
• QGIS