The right gear
Equipment
One aircraft, three interchangeable sensors, and our own ground control. If you know this gear, you already know what we can do with it — and if you don’t, here’s what each piece is actually for.
Sensors
Three payloads, one per job type
LiDAR
Zenmuse L3
A long-range LiDAR payload with dual 100MP RGB mapping cameras, so the point cloud comes back colorized rather than as bare geometry.
The wire-detection figure is the one utility crews care about — it's what makes conductor sag and clearance measurable from altitude instead of from a bucket truck.
LiDAR services →- Point cloud accuracy (120 m AGL)
- 3 cm vertical / 4 cm horizontal RMSE
- Point cloud accuracy (300 m AGL)
- 5 cm vertical / 7.5 cm horizontal RMSE
- Detection range
- 700 m at 10% reflectivity
- Wire detection
- 300 m on 21.6 mm steel-core aluminum conductor
- Laser wavelength
- 1535 nm
- RGB mapping cameras
- Dual 4/3 CMOS, 100 MP, 107° combined FOV
Photogrammetry
Zenmuse P1
A 45MP full-frame camera built specifically for mapping, with a mechanical shutter that avoids the distortion a rolling shutter introduces on a moving aircraft.
Full-frame and mechanical-shutter are the two things that separate a mapping camera from a camera strapped to a drone. Both matter when volumes are what you're selling.
Photogrammetry services →- Sensor
- 35.9 × 24 mm full frame, 45 MP
- Photo size
- 8192 × 5460
- Absolute accuracy
- 3 cm horizontal / 5 cm vertical
- Mechanical shutter
- 1/2000 s
- Lenses
- DJI DL 24 mm / 35 mm / 50 mm
- Min. photo interval
- 0.7 s
Thermal
Zenmuse H30T
A hybrid payload — radiometric thermal, wide and zoom visible cameras, and a laser rangefinder — so a thermal anomaly can be confirmed visually and located without a second flight.
Radiometric means every pixel carries a temperature value, so a hot spot can be measured after the flight rather than just eyeballed on a color ramp.
Thermal services →- Thermal resolution
- 1280 × 1024, radiometric (R-JPEG)
- Thermal sensitivity (NETD)
- ≤ 50 mK at f/1.0
- Spectral band
- 8–14 μm
- Temperature range
- −20 to 150 °C (high gain) / 0 to 600 °C (low gain)
- Laser rangefinder
- 3–3000 m
- Digital zoom
- 32×
Platform & ground control
What carries it and what keeps it honest
The sensor gets the attention, but endurance and ground control are what determine whether a site can be flown in one day and whether the resulting data can be trusted against a known reference.
DJI Matrice 400
59 min max flight time
Long endurance is what makes corridor work practical — fewer battery swaps means fewer landing zones to find and less of the day spent on the ground.
Payload capacity
6 kg
Headroom to carry the heaviest of the three payloads without trading away flight time.
D-RTK 3 base station
On-site ground control
We bring our own RTK base rather than depending on a network correction service, which matters on rural sites where cell coverage is unreliable.
D-RTK 3 survey pole
Independent check points
Lets us shoot control and verification points on the ground so the aerial data can be checked against something, not just trusted.
DJI Terra
In-house processing
Capture and processing both stay with us — nothing gets shipped to a third-party service bureau and handed back weeks later.
About these numbers
The figures above are published manufacturer specifications from DJI, not guarantees of what any given project will produce. Real accuracy on your site depends on flight altitude, ground control, terrain, vegetation, and conditions on the day. DJI measured the LiDAR accuracy figures using a Matrice 400 tied to a D-RTK 3 station and processed in DJI Terra — the same configuration we fly — but under controlled conditions with hard checkpoints.
When we scope your project, we’ll tell you what accuracy is realistically achievable on that site and what ground control it would take to get there. If someone quotes you a lab number as a delivery promise, ask them what altitude and what control network it assumes.