Archaeoptics use time-of-flight scanning technology to produce highly-accurate and high-resolution terrestrial LiDAR datasets in a cost-effective way.

Terrestrial LiDAR offers several advantages over airborne LiDAR in that the ground surface beneath the canopy is completely scanned. This is ideal for forestry survey where all the tree trunks can be accurately surveyed in a very time- and cost-effective manner. Additionally, the much higher resolution and higher accuracy enables measurement of extremely fine features, ideal for archaeological investigation and planning.

Terrestrial LiDAR can be used to produce highly accurate and high-resolution terrain data simulating either the “canopy model” where vegetation and other non-ground detail is left in the model or the “bare earth” model where only the actual ground surface is left.

We can provide terrestrial LiDAR datasets in a variety of deliverables depending on your needs ranging from terrain models through to hachured plans and CAD strings.

Our terrestrial LiDAR service is priced on a ground coverage basis and typically around 4 hectares can be surveyed in a single day at a resolution of 5cm, vertical accuracy 1cm. LiDAR datasets can be optionally georeferenced to either local or global survey control.