We provide Airborne LiDAR services to a variety of markets and offer custom cost-effective processing of massive 3D datasets.

Isle of Lewis SRTM height data and photo-draped 1:100000 maps

Airborne LiDAR generates dense surface maps of terrain typically with a resolution of 1m and a vertical accuracy of approximately 10cm. These surface maps can be used for archaeological investigation, flood-level management, highway survey, urban planning, forestry management, quarry management and civil engineering.

The datasets can be used effectively for both metrological purposes and for visualisation. We also have designed powerful software for mapping arbitrary imagery onto LiDAR datasets to enrich their usefulness, for example, oblique and vertical aerial photography, hypsographic shading and existing map data.

Airborne LiDAR can be processed into either “canopy model” data where vegetation, tree cover and structures are left in place giving a more realistic view of the terrain or “bare earth” data where only the underlying ground surface is retained.

The benefits of Airborne LiDAR include

1. Highly accurate mapping of large swathes of terrain
2. Cost-effective survey of features
3. Can be effectively integrated with Terrestrial LiDAR
4. Incredibly powerful tool for examination of underlying terrain features in relation to man-made structures such as roads, reservoirs, archaeology

Airborne LiDAR datasets, in conjunction with either visualisation hill-shading or high-resolution rectified aerial photography can now be used to produce photo-realistic solid 3D terrain models, ideal for museum display and even archaeological investigation.