Aerial survey and mapping for mining and mineral exploration.

Site information for mining companies, exploration businesses, mine operators and their engineering and consulting partners.

What mining teams need

Practical information about the ground.

Mining and exploration decisions depend on knowing the site. Aerial survey is one of the most efficient ways to map a large or remote one.

  • 01

    Understand large or remote sites

    A consistent view across a whole licence area, including ground that is slow to reach on foot or by vehicle.

  • 02

    Terrain and surface mapping

    Elevation and surface information for pit design, drainage, access and infrastructure planning.

  • 03

    Support exploration and site assessment

    Base mapping that geologists and consultants can use alongside their own field data.

  • 04

    Capture information for planning

    Georeferenced data in your coordinate system, ready for mine planning and GIS software.

  • 05

    Repeat surveys and monitoring

    Surveys repeated to the same specification, where appropriate, so conditions can be compared over time.

  • 06

    Consistent site information

    One dataset for the whole team, from the board to the site office.

From acquisition to information

Three distinct stages.

Aerial acquisition, geospatial processing and geological interpretation are different disciplines. We are clear about which one each output comes from.

  1. 01 · Airborne acquisition

    Collect the data

    The aircraft flies the agreed survey pattern and records data with the sensors specified for the project.

  2. 02 · Geospatial processing

    Turn it into maps and models

    Raw data is processed, checked and turned into georeferenced mosaics, surface models and map layers.

  3. 03 · Information delivered

    Use it to decide

    Your geologists, engineers and planners interpret the outputs alongside their own field data and models.

Example workflow

A mining survey, step by step.

Deliverables depend on the scope, equipment, conditions and technical specification of each project.

  1. Define

    Agree the site and the survey objectives.

  2. Method

    Establish the appropriate acquisition methodology.

  3. Plan

    Plan the mission, subject to regulatory and operational requirements.

  4. Acquire

    Fly the survey and acquire the agreed aerial data.

  5. Process

    Process the data and validate it against the specification.

  6. Deliver

    Deliver the agreed mapping products and project outputs.

Who it is for

Clear for executives. Specific for survey teams.

For mining executives

  • A defined scope, timeframe and set of deliverables before work starts
  • Site information that supports investment and planning decisions
  • One accountable team from planning to delivery

For survey and exploration managers

  • Acquisition method chosen for the objective, not the other way round
  • Outputs in your coordinate system and file formats
  • Processing and validation steps documented with the delivery

Asia and Africa

Built for remote mining regions.

Many exploration areas in Asia and Africa are large, remote and served by limited infrastructure. That is where aerial survey is most useful.

We plan around distance, airfields, permissions and the seasons, and we tell you early if a site or timeframe is not realistic.

Geographic coverage
Aerial view of eroded badland ridges running to distant mountains, Kyrgyzstan

Project enquiries

Planning an exploration or mining survey?

Share the licence area or site, your objectives and your timeframe. We will propose a methodology and explain the outputs it can support.

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