Aerial Surveys offers aerial photography and mapping services over all of New Zealand, Australia, SE Asia and the Pacific. We have offices in Auckland and Nelson with the flight operations base in Nelson which provides optimal access to anywhere in New Zealand within 2½ hours flying time.
Aerial Surveys has two fully operational aircraft available which includes a Cessna 402 (ZK-MAP) being a twin-engined fully instrumented aircraft with a 7 hour flying range, and a Cessna 206 turbo charged aircraft. In addition we have access to a variety of other fixed wing aircraft and helicopter services when required.
After many successful years of deploying large format analogue cameras, Aerial Surveys commissioned a new Vexcel UltraCam digital mapping camera in 2009, which is now our main camera system used in New Zealand providing high accuracy and radiometric quality imagery. We also have a large format analogue mapping camera (LMK1000) which continues to support certain industries and clients. The new UltraCam digital mapping camera is second generation digital camera technology with forward motion compensation, simultaneous CIR capture and superior radiometric qualities. There are a multitude of other benefits stemming from the new UltraCam camera system and for more specific details on this please refer to our News section or contact us directly on info@aerialsurveys.co.nz.
Services
Vertical Imagery
Digital colour and CIR vertical photography and stereo 3d mapping and ortho imagery production. This photography is generally used for planning, resource/asset management and 3d mapping (digital terrain modeling and contour generation).
Oblique Imagery
Oblique imagery is often a requirement from customers to support the ortho imagery they have or seek to acquire. Capturing oblique imagery has evolved in recent years with the introduction of Pictometry which is a multi-lens system capturing both vertical and oblique imagery at the same time. Aerial Surveys has conducted a number of projects in New Zealand using Pictometry particularly the main urban centres. Pictometry offers the users of oblique imagery some of the typical useful GIS tools not available from traditional oblique images. With the use of a Pictometry viewer application the user can measure heights with accuracy as well as view an object from multiple angles. Please contact us on info@aerialsurveys.co.nz.
Historical Image Library
Aerial Surveys holds an extensive photographic library having been in operation for over 30 years in New Zealand. This imagery continues to be a valuable resource for our customers especially when looking at changes over time to the environment.
Key Resources
- 2 dedicated aircraft and access to other project suitable aircraft
- 1 Vexcel UltraCam digital mapping camera (simultaneous colour and CIR capture)
- Vexcel UltraMap digital image processing application with high speed distributed processing
- 3 photogrammetric 152mm cameras
- 3 photogrammetric 305mm cameras
- Handheld 6×7 medium format cameras
- Photo labs in Nelson
- Photo enlargements to 3m in B/W, Colour and CIR
