Aerial survey & 3D mapping · Kansas City

Know the ground before you break it.

Drone LiDAR and 3D site models for builders, engineers, and landowners around Kansas City, usually delivered within the week.

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Union Station and the Liberty Memorial, modeled from public USGS LiDAR (2020).

What the drone brings back.

Every surface the laser touched: roofs, treetops, lawn, the top of the tower. This block is 3.2 million points, each with a real elevation. The view draws a sample of them.

Bare earth.

Take away the buildings and trees and the terrain underneath shows up: the Liberty Memorial hill and the slope down to Pershing Road. The blank shapes are building footprints: no laser reaches the ground under a roof. Grading and drainage plans start from this surface.

Contours, every five feet.

The same ground, drawn the way engineers read it. The heavier pink lines fall every 25 feet. On a real job your civil engineer gets these as CAD linework.

Structures and canopy, sorted.

Buildings in dark ink, trees in gray-green, ground faded back. That sorting gives you footprints, roof heights, setbacks, and how much of a lot sits under tree cover.

Measure anything.

Pick a point on the model, then a second one: distance, rise, and slope. The Liberty Memorial tower is published at 217 feet. See what the scan says.

What you get back.

Site model: The full point cloud and a surface model, tied to real coordinates. Opens in your CAD, your GIS, or a browser.; 3–5 business days
Topography & contours: A bare-earth surface with contours at whatever interval your engineer asks for.; 3–5 business days
Volumes: Stockpiles and cut-and-fill quantities, measured from the scan so you can bill against them.; Next business day
Progress scans: The same site flown on a schedule, so each visit can be compared with the last.; Weekly or monthly
Drainage mapping: Flow paths, low spots, and where water will pond, for grading and field drainage.; 3–5 business days

One flight, three steps.

01
Fly
A licensed Part 107 pilot flies the site, usually in under an hour for 100 acres, with airspace approval handled, including near the downtown airport.
02
Process
Raw returns get cleaned, sorted, and tied to survey control, so every point carries a real elevation.
03
Deliver
Files for your CAD and GIS, plus a browser link like this one that anyone on the project can open and measure.

Tell us about the site.

Send an address and a rough boundary. We'll come back with a flight plan and a fixed quote within a day.