The Power of Drone LiDAR vs. Drone Photogrammetry: How to see the ground
This post explains why LiDAR data is far superior to tradition drone photogrammetric methods for DTM and contours production
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Luke Wijnberg
- Oct 26, 2023
- 2 min
Drone based LiDAR survey of Oil & Gas assets in the jungle of Gabon (80 000ha)
In difficult to reach places in Africa, LiDAR surveys are often prohibitively expensive and can take a long time to perform. Delays due...
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Melissa Wijnberg
- Sep 28, 2023
- 2 min
Drone based LiDAR surveys for the feasibility of renewable energy production
Why you should use a drone for a feasibility study of your wind power plant.
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Melissa Wijnberg
- Mar 30, 2023
- 2 min
Remote mine LiDAR surveys via the internet (drone-in-a-box)
3DroneMapping has been working hard to provide its clients, particularly in the mining sector, a solution for rapid, high frequency LiDAR...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Drone survey of a Mali lithium mine
3DroneMapping was appointed as consultants to undertake an aerial survey of a potential lithium mine site in southern Mali. The project...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Drone based LiDAR accuracy tests
For the past 15 months, 3DroneMapping has been working on its drone based LiDAR system. There have been enormous changes in the INS and...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Aerial Survey of Kinshasa, DRC
3DroneMapping undertook an aerial survey of a site along the Ndjili River, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
28 000ha aerial survey by drone(in 4 days)
Post COVID-19 hard-lockdown season has started up with 3DroneMapping's Uganda office undertaking a 28 000ha aerial survey of a sugar cane...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
LiDAR compared to Drone PhoDAR
At 3Dronemapping, we often get asked how our data and end products compare to traditional LiDAR captured from manned aircraft. Each of...
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Melissa Wijnberg
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Rapid aerial survey of a proposed graphite mine
A rapid and accurate aerial survey done by fixed wing drone of 3800ha in Africa.
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Luke Wijnberg
- Jun 25, 2019
- 2 min
Why you need to clean your drone data
Data derived from drone photogrammetry is great. It is feature rich and often contains more information than you would ever need....
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Luke Wijnberg
- Apr 29, 2019
- 3 min
Data processing services to the public
Much of our time at 3DroneMapping is spent in office, processing data. We have worked with terabytes of information over the years, seen...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Feb 6, 2019
- 2 min
Landslide and flood analysis in Uganda using drone data
In late 2018, the Bududa region in Eastern Uganda experienced torrential rain for a number of days. The area falls just outside of Mount...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Jun 16, 2018
- 1 min
Drone aerial survey in DRC
3DroneMapping recently completed a fairly simple aerial survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The 60ha site is adjacent the...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Dec 16, 2016
- 3 min
3DroneMapping completes PPK trials
3DroneMapping has been testing a PPK system for the past year. The point of PPK (or Post Processing Kinematic) is not just to improve...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Dec 10, 2016
- 2 min
Drone mapping a private tropical island
3DroneMapping had the privilege of mapping a tiny private island in the Indian ocean off the Zanzibar coast in the Indian Ocean. This...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Oct 20, 2016
- 4 min
Drone Mapping in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Gorongosa National Park is a 4000 square kilometer nature reserve in central Mozambique. In the 1950s it boasted some of the greatest...
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Luke Wijnberg
- Aug 30, 2016
- 2 min
Drone mapping 375km railway in Ethiopia
3DroneMapping in partnership with a leading mapping, geospatial and photogrammetry survey company in Turkey, has together begun a 10...
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Luke Wijnberg
- May 19, 2016
- 3 min
Aerial Mapping in Mauritius by drone
Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, 1000km East of Madagascar. This tropical paradise has been inhabited and colonised by various...
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Luke Wijnberg
- May 5, 2016
- 1 min
Drone Mapping near Lake Albert, Uganda
3DroneMapping was recently invited to map a newly constructed waste disposal site in Western Uganda, near the shores of Lake Albert. This...
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