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TECHNICAL

INNOVATION

Althouse and Meade offers Unmanned Aircraft System or 'drone' services to provide clients with higher quality information in a more efficient and effective manner than traditional methods. Quickly becoming an industry standard, drone services provide a wide range of capabilities that can be applied to many of the standard reports, plans, and surveys we perform. A more detailed list of the drone service capabilities is outlined below.

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Led by a team of Part 107 Certified pilots, our Techincal Innovation Unit (TIU) uses a DJI M200 Drone with a SlantRange 4P+ Multispectral Sensor to capture current, high-resolution aerial imagery.

Services Offered

  • 3D mapping

  • Canopy Cover

  • Change analysis

  • Digital Elevation Models

  • High resolution aerial imagery

  • LiDAR Analysis

  • Monitoring

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  • Plant health assessment

  • Promotional photos and videos

  • Rare plant surveys in sensitive habitat

  • Surface Models

  • Targeted species mapping

  • Thermal Imagery

  • Weed mapping

Applications

  • ​Orthographic photos

  • 3D renderings

  • DEMs and topo lines​

  • Connection to GIS and analysis that can be performed

  • Interactive online accessibility of generated imagery and associated data

  • Plant health assessment

  • Promotional photos and videos

  • Rare plant surveys in sensitive habitat

  • Surface Models

  • Targeted species mapping

  • Thermal Imagery

  • Weed mapping

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