Drone mapping, GIS data, environmental monitoring

High Resolution Drone Mapping

At Geomap NZ, we make drone maps you can actually use. We specialise in low-altitude aerial photography, creating high-detail imagery. This is georeferenced to 1–2 cm in globally accurate coordinate systems, to help you plan, measure and understand the land.

We can add vector layers of data, with the information that is meaningful to you — that you actually need. This could be anything from paddocks, tracks, infrastructure that can be seen from the air, through to things that are invisible, but have public databases, like coverage zones at risk of a 10, 50 or 100 year flood for example. We can also use the RTK rover, to map underground services, before trenches are back filled or provide ‘as-built’ information.

All our maps use ground control points, or ‘GCPs’, which give us verification of an actual northing, easting and elevation. These are visible targets appear in the photos, and then when images are stitched together, ties them into a digital twin version of the real world. The maps and file exports we produce can be used with geospatial analysis or engineering software, and exported in any format that you want.

Geomap NZ will provide a report with our maps, when requested, with all the supporting positioning data, to verify what the level of accuracy of each job is. We also recognise that we are not a cadastral survey company, and our data is to be considered ‘information only’ and cannot be used for legal boundary definition.

Based in Okato, Taranaki, with drone mapping services available across New Zealand.