2D Orthomosaic Maps | UK

001 - Overview

What is a 2D Orthomosaic?

Understanding the terms and appropriate uses is essential for achieving the right outcome for your project.

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A 2D orthomosaic is a geometrically corrected image composed of multiple aerial photographs stitched together, allowing for accurate measurements of distances, areas, and angles directly from the map.

What is the difference between UAV & Satellite imagery?

You may be familiar with high-resolution satellite imagery from services such as Google Earth, however, the resolution of their images is still several times lower than that which can be achieved with UAV imagery.

UAV Imagery

UAVs can achieve pixel sizes of less than 1cm, allowing comprehensive identification of all features on a site where a high accuracy is essential.

Satellite Imagery

Satellites are capable of creating imagery with a pixel size of 20-50cm, meaning that ‘thin’ features may not resolve when viewed from above.

002 - Advantages

What are the key strengths of 2D Orthomosaics?

Harness the power of technology for superior planning, monitoring, and decision-making in your projects.

What are the main benefits of 2D Orthomosaics?

Orthomosaics are the foundation for topographic maps, allowing for excellent geolocation of urban and natural landscapes due to their compatibility with traditional 2D maps.

High Accuracy Basemaps

Orthomosaics provide an essential basis for several high-accuracy, top-down mapping outputs such as topographic maps, cadastral maps and more.

Simplicity & Versatility

Orthomosaics can be shared and exported easily across the majority of geospatial software applications in industry-standard GIS, BIM & CAD formats.

Georeference Historical Maps

Orthomosaics represent geospatial information in a format which has been used for centuries – 2D top-down maps – allowing for compatibility with historical maps.

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003 - Industry Sectors

How will 2D Orthomosaics benefit my project?

We leverage cutting-edge UAV imaging technologies tailored to meet specific project needs.

Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)

Topographic Mapping

Detailed elevation data essential for creating accurate topographic maps used in various applications like urban planning, construction and land-use management.

Site Planning

Help engineers and architects in planning construction sites by providing detailed information about the terrain, allowing for better building placement and design.

Renewable Energy & Infrastructure

Digitising Infrastructure Features

Accurate digitisation or automatic classification of lineal or polygonal features, converted into assets in geospatial data or asset management systems.

Renewable Energy Asset Management

Manage large wind or solar farms, by extracting and updating a geospatial database of information related to maintenance and numbers of individual assets.

Surveying & Property

Measured Survey

2D Orthomosaic maps offer accurate site dimensions, perfect for boundary verification, planning construction projects, or calculating property area.

Boundary Disputes

Settle boundary disputes quickly with detailed visuals, and identifying potential encroachments and ensure clear property lines for future reference.

Environmental Management

Habitat Identification

Provides a basis for 2D maps to facilitate automated or manual segmentation of different habitat and landscape types to aid ecological surveys.

Pre-Post Disaster Change

Enabling efficient visualisation of change over very wide area due to natural disasters, which in turn allows for effective targeting of resources.

Agriculture & Farming

Slope 'Aspect' Crop Growth

DEMs can allow the optimisation of planting along south-facing slopes, where higher levels of sunlight are required to boost crop growth.

Crop Health

2D Orthomosaics generated with RGB imagery can now be used to measure crop health, where only multispectral imagery enabled this capability previously.

Heritage Conservation

Historical Map Comparisons

Identify commonalities between historical and modern-day maps of areas with cultural heritage artefacts, or monitoring changes to a conservation area.

Ancient Landscape Reconstruction

Identify ancient landscape features such as road networks or ruins, and easily digitise these features into a GIS database or heritage management system.

If you have further enquiries, we are always available to discuss your projects. Please feel free to get in touch via our contact form.

004 - FAQ

Want to find out more?

Everything you need to know about our 2D Orthomosaics.

How accurate can a 2D Orthomosaic be?

Which software can be used to view and manipulate 2D orthomosaics?

What features would be visible on a 2D Orthomosaic?

The ultra-high resolution of imagery captured via UAV makes it possible to identify even the smallest features. For example, in some cases, resolution can be high enough even to identify individual daisies in grassy area or millimetre wide cracks in a building’s facade. The level of detail achievable will be determined by how close we can get to the target, which will in turn depend on flight hazards and privacy concerns on site.

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005 - Contact

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