Rain Rain Go Away! Have you ever seen so much rain in such a short period of time?

Has recent flooding created an immediate need for accurate, detailed topographic data?  HD-LIDAR services could provide the solution you need.

LiDAR survey can capture terrain to provide a high accuracy data set of both LiDAR and imagery data so you can see where the water caused the greatest damage and assist in planning for future flooding issues.

With this technology we can turn around the delivery of huge volumes of collected data in days which would normally take several weeks.

For more information or to schedule a Live DEMO of this data which shows more detail than ever before visit http://www.axisgeospatial.com/airborne-lidar-acquisition-processing/

Technical Checklist when hiring an aerial mapping professional

Some technical things to make sure you are getting from your aerial mapping professional include the following:

• Proof of certifications of project managers or responsible professionals
• Certificate of Insurance
• Exacting scope of work for project, including identification of project datum’s, work area, accuracy requirements, metadata and related documentation
• Aero-triangulation and survey control reports, network adjustment etc.
• Camera, lens, sensor and equipment calibration reports, as well as serial numbers of equipment used, and technical flight data
• Trajectory reports for airborne IMU/GNSS data
• Statement of conformance to accuracy standards, whether they are client generated, or nationally accepted standards.
• Deliverables and data, including contact prints, digital orthophotos and other files, as well as PDF or hard copies of drawings
• Proof of surveying methodologies, including equipment used, control ties, control point datasheets, control diagrams and reference ties, photographs for measurement point confirmation and placement of markers at the point of observation for QA/QC follow up observations

Expand the services requested

Finally, don’t be afraid to expand the services requested. Our staff includes personnel that bring special skills to the table, including compiling data in AutoCAD, MicroStation, and proprietary GIS formats. On the surface, an engineer may need hard data for his design, but much of the data that is collected during a mapping project is directly usable in a GIS database. Utility mark-out can now easily be seen in our imagery when it is planned for, and the ability to mine our imagery and LiDAR datasets for additional information is not widely appreciated.

Contact AXIS today for any of the above on your next aerial mapping project.
 

Points to Consider for an Aerial Mapping Project

Here are some things to consider when considering using an aerial mapping firm to help you execute your next project. Of course, it goes without saying that you should: 

• only deal with firms that are fully licensed to do business
• work with firms that carry adequate levels of professional liability insurance
• work with firms whose work is performed and managed by highly skilled, experienced and technically proficient professionals

Equally critical is the need for full inclusion in the work process, from development of the work scope, management of personnel, execution of technical work processes, independent review and QA/QC, and delivery of the data to the client.  Other areas include:

Equipment

Aerial mapping is a highly technical profession, and is incredibly hardware intensive, involving planes, helicopters or other aerial platforms, significant investment in hardware for capturing data; be it a film camera, a digital sensor or an airborne LiDAR/digital sensor that is equipped with the latest inertial measurement systems and airborne multi constellation GNSS receiver. All of this equipment is useless without highly skilled technicians to calibrate, maintain and operate it and interpret the data that is collected. The sheer volume of the data collected means the need for robust computer network architecture, high speed computers, a myriad of software and again, the personnel to keep the system running and data flowing efficiently.

Deliverables

Deliverables have shifted from ink on Mylar hand drafted manuscripts, to CAD drawings on CD or DVD, to now routinely shipping multi-terabyte hard disk drives of data to the office for processing and delivery of equally voluminous amount of data to our clients. It is critical to make sure you ask for data that you can use in a technical sense, as well having computers and other hardware that can fully exploit the dataset. 

Please discuss your concerns about data; we can tailor the way we deliver data to you, be it tiling photos and point clouds into smaller sets that are more easily managed, and may allow you to establish a workflow that enables more of your designers or technicians to work simultaneously on a project.

Contact AXIS today today to plan your next mapping project.