Aerial surveying and aerial photography services
When you need to cover large or remote areas quickly, crewed aerial surveying delivers data that drones and ground surveys can’t match.
Flying from stable, twin-engine aircraft equipped with advanced camera and sensor systems, aerial surveys capture high-resolution aerial imagery across Australia – from regional townships and floodplains to major infrastructure corridors.
Whether you need precise elevation data, stockpile volumes, CIR vegetation mapping or town planning, aerial surveying provides a reliable foundation to power your decision making.
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Why crewed aerial surveying matters for your project?
Aerial surveying offers speed, coverage and accuracy on a scale unmatched by other methods. It’s the ideal solution for projects that demand:
- Efficient capture of very large areas: Cover thousands of square kilometres in a single sortie.
- Cost-effectiveness at scale: More economical than RPAs or ground surveys for regional or multi-site projects.
- High-resolution imagery and elevation data: Orthophotos, DEMs and DSMs ready for planning, compliance and reporting.
- Reduced disruption on the ground: Data collected remotely, with minimal impact on site operations.
- Ongoing change monitoring: Schedule repeat flights to track land use, vegetation health or project progress.
When to choose aerial surveying with RPAs?
Drone surveys excel at detailed, localised mapping. For surveying very large areas and higher altitude surveys with wide-angle capture, choose manned aerial surveying.
Who needs crewed aerial surveys?
Crewing aircraft with advanced aerial cameras makes it possible to capture accurate data across entire regions, making this service essential for:
Government and planning authorities
✔ Regional mapping and natural disaster modelling
✔ Urban growth monitoring and by-law enforcement
Engineers and construction professionals
✔ Corridor mapping for transport and utilities
✔ Surface models for design and verification
Mining and quarry operators
✔ Stockpile and pit volume calculations
✔ Site condition reporting across large leases
Environmental and land managers
✔ Vegetation health monitoring with multi-band imagery
✔ Post-burn and conservation mapping
What do you get from aerial surveys?
Aircraft-mounted systems generate spatial data that’s tailored to your workflow. Landair also integrates aerial outputs with your GIS or CAD environment, ensuring consistency with existing survey datasets.
Vertical and oblique aerial photography
Aerial photography is captured in two ways, and the right one depends on what you need to see. Vertical photography looks straight down and is used for mapping, volumetric calculations and vegetation management, and it is the basis for orthophotos. Oblique photography is captured at an angle, so building facades and site structures can be seen from the side.
- Vertical imagery: straight-down capture for mapping, measurement and orthophoto production.
- Oblique imagery: angled capture that shows the sides of buildings and site features.
- Ground sample distance of 20cm or better, so fine detail holds across large survey areas.
Aerial orthophotos
Seamless, distortion-free images georeferenced for direct measurement.
Digital Elevation and Digital Surface Models
Showing bare earth or top-of-surface detail.
Volume calculations
Accurate stockpile and cut/fill analysis across large sites.
Multi-band orthomosaics
Four-band imagery for vegetation and environmental monitoring.
Oblique imagery sets
Contextual views for planning, visualisation and stakeholder engagement.
Which aerial surveying technology?
Landair operates twin-engine Vulcanair P68C aircraft for stability and efficiency, supported by additional platforms (Piper Navajo and Cessna C205) when required.
PhaseOne 280i large-format camera
280MP, 4-band imagery with RGB and NIR lenses.
Leica RCD30 medium-format camera
80MP system for specialist aerial capture.
SimActive Correlator3D processing
For orthorectification, mosaicking, seamline editing and distortion correction.
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Explore our aerial projects
Spatial Imagery Services Program (SISP)
Landair Surveys captured over 2,000 square kilometres of high resolution aerial imagery across 40 Queensland towns and 8 central islands.
Statewide Planned Burns
Landair Surveys supported the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) by capturing high resolution aerial imagery of planned burn sites across the Gippsland and Barwon South West regions.
Aerial photography FAQs
Crewed aerial surveys use a twin-engine survey aircraft to cover very large or regional areas quickly. Drone, or RPA, surveys are flown by our own CASA certified pilots and suit detailed, localised sites. Landair runs both, so the platform is matched to your project.
Ground sample distance is the real-world size that each pixel in the image represents, so a smaller ground sample distance means finer detail. Landair captures aerial photography at 20cm ground sample distance or better.
Yes. Crewed aircraft handle wide regional captures, and drones handle high-detail local sites. For the Queensland Department of Resources, Landair captured over 2,000 square kilometres of aerial imagery across 40 towns and 8 islands.
Yes. Landair handles and stores your data securely and not in the cloud, and you retain ownership of your data.