1 Company in Nantes Cedex 3

Founded in 2014 and based in Nantes, France, HELICEO manufactures unmanned aircraft for professionals in precision measurement. Its product range covers automatic VTOL drones, multirotors, a bathymetric drone, and a terrestrial photogrammetry tool, all certified by the DGAC. The aircraft rely on DroneBox, a patented modular plug-and-play unit that houses the geodetic GNSS card, autopilot, telemetry, flight controller, avionics, communication and archiving functions. The company also supplies piloting and software training, support services, and its own software suite for processing geographic data. Surveyors, topographers, mine and quarry managers, and construction site supervisors use its systems for geo-referenced 3D mapping at centimeter-level accuracy.