Digital elevation models are one of many products that can be derived from lidar data. DEMs are digital representations of the earth’s topographic surface. They’re a “bare-earth” product because they do not include surface features like buildings and vegetation.
In the construction site industry developers, engineers and architects are learning that using drones to perform regular surveys has many benefits including: rapid production of a complete picture of a site, accurately georeferenced detailed orthophotos, and comprehensive 3D data of the entire site.
From the high-density 3D point data collected by LiDAR or generated from photogrammetry more accurate volumes can be calculated when compared to traditional survey by total station or GPS Rovers.
Drones can survey vast areas and challenging terrain quickly and safely when compared to ground survey crews thus saving time and reducing cost.
For complex projects, visualization can prove to be a vital tool aiding in optimizing design and coordination between multiple contractors.
When a topographic survey is required of an inaccessible or restricted area: such as a landslides, cliffs, or stockpiles in a busy facility, drones are a perfect solution to gather 3D survey data and geo-referenced high-resolution imagery safely.
We start by understanding your project needs and target output. We will review the location to ensure safe and legal flight and verify any regulatory requirements.
We will arrange to be on site at the optimal times during your project to capture the initial scan and subsequent progress update. Our team of certified and insured pilots will ensure minimal disruption to site activity.
After the flight, we process and data and prepare it for your use. We provide the appropriate file types and formatting to fit your workflow.
Independent measurements collected from traditional survey techniques are compared to our processed product to confirm our data is accurate.
Using our product from the data processing, we generate deliverables catering to our clients’ individual needs, including digital terrain models, grading plans, earthworks reports, monitoring reports, various point cloud classifications, 3D design overlay and integration of high precision total station/survey grade GPS measurements with aerial survey data.
We will arrange to be on site at the optimal times during your project to capture the initial scan and subsequent progress update. Our team of certified and insured pilots will ensure minimal disruption to site activity.
After the flight, we process and data and prepare it for your use. We provide the appropriate file types and formatting to fit your workflow.
Independent measurements collected from traditional survey techniques are compared to our processed product to confirm and our data is accurate.
Using our product from the data processing, we generate deliverables catering to our clients’ individual needs. Deliverables include but are not limited to point clouds, digital models, and survey drawings.
From monitoring and assessment, as analytical data, or as marketing materials, our outputs consistently bring businesses and workflow to the next level. We thrive on your success!
"Spitfire delivers data that is responsive to our needs and catered to our workflow as an architecture firm, capturing what traditional surveys miss and enabling us to effectively site our projects to suit any given context."
“We recently chose to have Spitfire Drone Survey look after all of our project completion quantity verifications.We have been thrilled with the services they offer, they are fast, professional and provide quality end products that we are happy to share with our customers.To top it all off they provide their services at a very reasonable price. I would highly recommend their services, the finished results exceeded our expectations.”
"The data is absolutely fantastic. Comparing to the “original” high-altitude lidar, it’s now obvious that it was smoothed pretty aggressively, and your data gives us the real shape of that canyon."
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Spitfire is excited to announce that we’ve been nominated for a North Vancouver Chamber Business Excellence Awards in the Innovation Category. The annual Business Excellence Awards recognize outstanding achievements of business people and business organizations in our community.
