UAV LiDAR
An airborne laser sensor instead of a camera. It returns points where photography can't resolve a surface at all.
- What it costs
- Quoted by site
- Who performs it
- Our own crew — certificated pilot and trained technician, badged and oriented on your site.
- Also called
- drone lidar · aerial lidar · point cloud from the air · terrain model
Where it earns its keep
Use it for these.
If your problem is “trees or terrain are defeating photography,” this is the answer.
- Sites where vegetation defeats photogrammetry
- Terrain and grade where you need the ground, not the canopy
- Corridors and long linear sites
- Large areas faster than doing it from the ground
Don't use it for this
Fine interior detail — that's a job for terrestrial scanning.
We put this on every service page because the fastest way to waste your money is to buy the impressive tool instead of the correct one. If the row above describes your job, say so on the call and we'll point you at the right one — including when it's cheaper than this.
Find the right one by problem →What you receive
And what it opens in.
- Classified point cloud
- Ground surface model
- Contour visualisation
Deliverables
Formats
LAS · LAZ · E57
Open formats, delivered to a shared project folder anyone on the job can open. No accounts to create, no per-seat charge, and if you leave, the record leaves with you.
Where we run it
Markets this shows up on most.
Aviation & transportation
Long programs, staged handovers and heavy reporting obligations. Airspace here is genuinely complex and it is planned for, not discovered on the day.
How we run it hereOil & gas
Tank farms, pipe racks, flare stacks and terminals — drone visual passes instead of scaffold and rope access, scan-based existing conditions for brownfield tie-ins, and turnaround documentation while everything is open.
How we run it here
The other nine.
All services →Drone mapping & aerial photogrammetry
Large exterior areas and whole-site coverage
Included in the base visit360° interior capture
Frequent interior documentation at volume
Included in the base visitTerrestrial laser scanning
Existing buildings before renovation or fit-out
Quoted per scopeMobile & handheld scanning
Large floor areas where speed matters more than detail
Quoted per scopeThermal imaging
Building envelope and air-barrier review
$500 · $250 added to a scheduled visitFixed cameras & scheduled capture
Long programs where a missed week matters
Quoted by duration
Tell us the job. We'll tell you if this is the right tool for it.
Send a schedule or a site address. You get back which phases, which instruments, which windows, and what each visit produces. Free, and yours to keep.
Request a capture plan