Abstract:Engineering survey in mining area has changed from traditional artificial mapping to aerial photography mapping of drones. It not only saves manpower, but also improves efficiency and precision. Accompanying with the development of technology, drone aerial surveying and mapping has gradually developed from vertical photography to oblique photography. According to the characteristics of engineering survey in the mining area, key technical points of the layout of tilt photography image control points and the aerial survey flight scheme, lists and compares various image control point layout schemes have been introduced, and finally obtains effective verification by multiple groups through actual measurement. It is concluded that the best scheme is to uniformly arrange the corner and edge point groups and a small number of center points in the mining area according to the mapping area. It will provide scientific basis for engineering survey, production operation, supervision and management of the mining area.