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CAPTURE / 04 — AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Aerial Photogrammetry
FAA-licensed UAS crews capture the environments you can't reach from the ground: terrain, backlots, city blocks, and inaccessible structures — all in production-ready detail, registered and delivered to your pipeline.
[ FAA PART 107 / NATIONWIDE / LARGE-AREA CAPTURE ]
WHAT IT IS
Capture at a scale no tripod reaches.
Some environments are simply too large, too tall, or too dangerous to scan from the ground — an entire backlot, a stretch of terrain, a rooftop, a facade several stories up, a location you can only access from the air. Aerial photogrammetry turns hundreds of overlapping drone images into an accurate, textured 3D reconstruction with real-world scale, so your set extension, environment, and layout teams have a faithful digital version of the real place.
It pairs naturally with ground-based set and location scanning: we capture the wide environment from above and stitch it to the detailed ground scans, giving you one continuous dataset from the skyline down to the props on set.
HOW SCANABLE DOES IT
Licensed pilots, planned flights, clean reconstructions.
Our crews fly under FAA Part 107 licensing and plan each mission around the site's airspace, obstacles, and lighting. We fly structured overlapping flight paths for full coverage, then process the imagery into registered point clouds and textured meshes at real-world scale, cleaned of the noise and drift that make raw drone reconstructions hard to use. The result drops into the same coordinate space as your ground scans.
Crews mobilize from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Houston to any location in the country. If your environment is on the far side of a state line, we bring the aircraft and the licensing to it.
[ PART 107 PILOTS / OVERLAPPING FLIGHT PATHS / REGISTERED MESH / REAL-WORLD SCALE ]
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
The environment, to scale.
- Aerial point cloudsRegistered, real-world scale, cleaned of flight noise.
- Textured meshesTerrain and structure reconstructions for set extension.
- OrthomosaicsHigh-resolution top-down reference and elevation data on request.
- Ground-scan alignmentStitched to your set and location data in one coordinate space.
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DEPLOY ANYWHERE
Capture the whole location from the air.
Tell us the site and the airspace, and we'll plan a flight. Licensed crews mobilize nationwide.