Drone mapping · Volumes · Thermal inspection

Accurate aerial data for mines, construction and energy sites.

RTK-corrected maps, 3D models, stockpile volumes and thermal inspection across Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. Checked on site, delivered in the formats your team already uses.

FAA Part 107Certified commercial pilot
MSHA & OSHA trainedPart 46 current, OSHA 10
Fully insured$1M aviation and general liability
Verified accuracyRTK base, GCPs and checkpoints

Industries

Built for active industrial sites

One flight gives your whole team a measurable, current picture of the site, without shutdowns or anyone climbing.

Drone aerial of a terraced cement quarry and processing plant in the desert

Mining & Aggregates

Stockpile inventories, pit and haul-road mapping, cut/fill and reclamation records.

Stockpile volumes →
Drone aerial of a new distribution center on a graded construction pad

Construction & Earthworks

Progress orthomosaics, grading checks against design, as-builts and site logistics.

Mapping & deliverables →
Side-by-side drone thermal and visible images of an industrial plant

Solar & Energy

Radiometric thermal inspection with GPS-located anomaly reports for O&M teams.

Thermal inspection →
Twin high-voltage transmission towers at sunset in the desert

Utilities & Facilities

Roof, facade and asset condition records, digital twins and repeat inspections.

Asset inspection →

Museums, Film & Gaming

Artifact digitization, props and set pieces, and game-ready scanned assets, from the whole site down to fractions of a millimetre.

3D object scanning →

Capabilities

Accuracy you can check

Our own Emlid GNSS base station runs on a known point for every mapping flight. Ground control and checkpoints are set with our Emlid GNSS rover or tied to your surveyor's network, and every job ships with an accuracy report.

Delivered in NAD83 (2011), California, Arizona or Nevada State Plane, UTM, NAVD88 or your site grid.

Three scales of 3D capture: drone mapping for sites, Matterport Pro3 for interiors, and the Sermoon P1S handheld scanner for objects down to fractions of a millimetre.

Full capabilities
DELIVERABLEFORMATS
Orthomosaic mapGeoTIFF · KMZ
Elevation modelsDSM · DTM GeoTIFF
Contours & surfacesDXF · DWG · LandXML
Point cloudLAS · LAZ
Volumes & cut/fillPDF report · CSV
Thermal inspectionR-JPEG · anomaly PDF

How it works

From scope call to data in your hands

  1. 01

    Scope

    Site, area or asset, accuracy needs, schedule and your site safety rules.

  2. 02

    Fly

    RTK-corrected capture with ground control, under your site induction and escorts.

  3. 03

    Check

    Data checked on site over Starlink, then processed in Pix4D against checkpoints.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Maps, models and reports in your formats, plus an online viewer for your team.

CVUAS drone pilot James beside the field truck

Field experience

Years of mine-site projects, self-sufficient anywhere

James has planned and run ground control on projects from drone mapping jobs to large mine sites flown by manned LiDAR aircraft. Our generator-powered 4x4 field truck with Starlink means remote and off-grid sites are routine.

  • DJI Matrice 4E (RTK)
  • Mavic 3 Enterprise & Thermal
  • Emlid GNSS base station & rover
  • Matterport Pro3 · Insta360 X5
  • Pix4D · DroneDeploy · DJI FlightHub
  • Sony A7R V ground capture
  • Creality Sermoon P1S 3D scanner
About CVUAS →

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Tell us about your site

Send the location, area or asset, and what you need to measure. We reply with a scope and a quote.