RTK-flown aerial mapping
Your site, measured and in the browser
Pits, yards and job sites flown with RTK and delivered as orthophotos, contour maps, stockpile volumes and a 3D site model anyone on your team can open — no software, no login.
RTK-flown aerial mapping
Pits, yards and job sites flown with RTK and delivered as orthophotos, contour maps, stockpile volumes and a 3D site model anyone on your team can open — no software, no login.
What I fly
One mapping mission produces the whole set. Fly it once a month and the comparison between flights becomes the real product — what moved, what grew, how much.
Pile-by-pile volumes against a fitted base or a surveyed toe, reported in cubic yards with the method and assumptions stated on the page.
Georeferenced orthomosaics down to about an inch per pixel, with photogrammetric contours at the interval you work in.
Zoom imagery of roofs, tanks, towers and structures — close enough to read a seam without putting anyone on a ladder.
Repeat flights on the same control, so each month's surface stacks against the last for cut, fill and honest progress reporting.
Sample deliverable
This is the actual deliverable, with the client and location withheld. Spin the model, switch to the elevation map with 2 ft contours, zoom into the orthophoto, or measure two points for distance, elevation change, grade and slope angle — in a browser, on a phone, at the scale house.
On your site
Before Lurid X I spent fifteen years on industrial mining sites, working up from laborer to supervisor, with an MSHA instructor background. Gate-in protocols, hazard briefings, exclusion zones — I know how a regulated site runs because I ran work on one.
It shows up on flight day. The mission gets planned around your traffic pattern, your blast schedule and your exclusion zones, and the paperwork is done before I reach the gate. You are not supervising a photographer who has never been on a bench.
Credentials
How it's flown
Every flight is RTK. A control point either shapes the surface or tests it — never both, and the report says which.
When the job calls for ground control, I set and survey my own targets. If you'd rather the model sit on control points your surveyor already established, I'll use those instead. Either way, the points that went into processing are named in the deliverable.
A control point held out of the adjustment gives an independent check on the result, because nothing was fitted to it. On a recent mission, two surveyor-established control points were held out and used as a reference: modelled elevations came within 0.3 in. A formal checkpoint assessment needs a designed set of points and gets quoted as its own scope.
That's one site, one day, one flight plan. Accuracy depends on the site, the control available and how the mission is flown, so it gets measured and stated per job rather than promised in the abstract.
Equipment
Service area
Based in Safford, Arizona, and serving the Southwest — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, and the mines and pits in between. Outside that footprint, travel is a line item rather than an obstacle: name the site and I'll quote the mobilization.
