Surveying
& Mapping
Using fixed-wing and multi-rotor drones to generate high-resolution, accurate orthophoto, DTM, contour and NDVI outputs for construction, mining, agriculture and infrastructure.
What is drone surveying and mapping?
Drone surveying is the use of an uncrewed aerial vehicle to capture geo-referenced imagery of a site and convert it, through photogrammetry, into measurable spatial data. A single flight collects hundreds of overlapping photographs; processing software reconstructs them into point clouds, orthophotos, elevation models and contours that engineering and GIS teams can measure directly.
ArioPix flies both fixed-wing drones — efficient over large corridors and open land — and multi-rotor drones, which excel at detailed, complex or confined sites. Every survey is flown by a DGCA-certified Remote Pilot under Drone Rules 2021, with ground control points for survey-grade accuracy.
What we generate.
Point Cloud
A point cloud is a dataset of millions of individual measured points, each carrying X, Y and Z geometric coordinates that describe a precise location on the surface being surveyed. Together those points form a dense, three-dimensional representation of an object, structure or terrain.
Because every point is a real measurement, a point cloud lets engineers take accurate distances, volumes and cross-sections directly from the data — the foundation from which most other deliverables are derived.
Orthoimagery
Orthoimagery is high-resolution aerial photography that has been geometrically corrected — orthorectified — so that the scale is uniform across the entire image and lens and terrain distortion are removed. The result behaves like a map: true distances, areas and angles can be measured directly from it.
An orthophoto (or orthomosaic, when many images are stitched together) becomes the accurate visual base layer for planning, design overlays and documentation.
Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
A Digital Elevation Model is a digital representation of the elevation of a land surface relative to a reference datum. It encodes the height of the terrain across a site so that attributes such as elevation at any point, slope and aspect can be resolved.
DEMs underpin drainage analysis, earthwork planning, flood modelling and line-of-sight studies — and they distinguish bare-earth terrain (DTM) from surfaces that include vegetation and structures (DSM).