top of page

Utilizing Drone Technology and LiDAR for Resilient Town Planning in African Cities Against Natural Disasters
Climate change is causing town planners and engineers to rethink data collection for modelling and future developments.
Melissa Wijnberg
Mar 34 min read
593 views


The Power of Drone LiDAR vs. Drone Photogrammetry: How to see the ground
This post explains why LiDAR data is far superior to tradition drone photogrammetric methods for DTM and contours production
Melissa Wijnberg
Aug 22, 20243 min read
172 views


Drone based LiDAR survey of Oil & Gas assets in the jungle of Gabon (80 000ha)
In difficult to reach places in Africa, LiDAR surveys are often prohibitively expensive and can take a long time to perform. Delays due...
Luke Wijnberg
Oct 26, 20232 min read
2,649 views


Drone based LiDAR surveys for the feasibility of renewable energy production
Why you should use a drone for a feasibility study of your wind power plant.
Melissa Wijnberg
Sep 28, 20232 min read
174 views


Remote mine LiDAR surveys via the internet (drone-in-a-box)
3DroneMapping has been working hard to provide its clients, particularly in the mining sector, a solution for rapid, high frequency LiDAR...
Melissa Wijnberg
Mar 30, 20232 min read
5,682 views


Drone survey of a Mali lithium mine
3DroneMapping was appointed as consultants to undertake an aerial survey of a potential lithium mine site in southern Mali. The project...
Luke Wijnberg
Mar 21, 20222 min read
358 views


Drone based LiDAR accuracy tests
For the past 15 months, 3DroneMapping has been working on its drone based LiDAR system. There have been enormous changes in the INS and...
Luke Wijnberg
Feb 28, 20222 min read
212 views

Aerial Survey of Kinshasa, DRC
3DroneMapping undertook an aerial survey of a site along the Ndjili River, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project...
Luke Wijnberg
Oct 1, 20213 min read
146 views


28 000ha aerial survey by drone(in 4 days)
Post COVID-19 hard-lockdown season has started up with 3DroneMapping's Uganda office undertaking a 28 000ha aerial survey of a sugar cane...
Luke Wijnberg
Nov 5, 20202 min read
223 views


LiDAR compared to Drone PhoDAR
At 3Dronemapping, we often get asked how our data and end products compare to traditional LiDAR captured from manned aircraft. Each of...
Luke Wijnberg
Apr 22, 20204 min read
891 views


Rapid aerial survey of a proposed graphite mine
A rapid and accurate aerial survey done by fixed wing drone of 3800ha in Africa.
Melissa Wijnberg
Mar 30, 20201 min read
26 views

Why you need to clean your drone data
Data derived from drone photogrammetry is great. It is feature rich and often contains more information than you would ever need....
Luke Wijnberg
Jun 25, 20192 min read
187 views


Data processing services to the public
Much of our time at 3DroneMapping is spent in office, processing data. We have worked with terabytes of information over the years, seen...
Luke Wijnberg
Apr 29, 20193 min read
58 views


Landslide and flood analysis in Uganda using drone data
In late 2018, the Bududa region in Eastern Uganda experienced torrential rain for a number of days. The area falls just outside of Mount...
Luke Wijnberg
Feb 6, 20192 min read
122 views
0 comments


Drone aerial survey in DRC
3DroneMapping recently completed a fairly simple aerial survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The 60ha site is adjacent the...
Luke Wijnberg
Jun 16, 20181 min read
135 views
0 comments


3DroneMapping completes PPK trials
3DroneMapping has been testing a PPK system for the past year. The point of PPK (or Post Processing Kinematic) is not just to improve...
Luke Wijnberg
Dec 16, 20163 min read
46 views


Drone mapping a private tropical island
3DroneMapping had the privilege of mapping a tiny private island in the Indian ocean off the Zanzibar coast in the Indian Ocean. This...
Luke Wijnberg
Dec 10, 20162 min read
50 views
0 comments


Drone Mapping in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Gorongosa National Park is a 4000 square kilometer nature reserve in central Mozambique. In the 1950s it boasted some of the greatest...
Luke Wijnberg
Oct 20, 20164 min read
57 views
0 comments


Drone mapping 375km railway in Ethiopia
3DroneMapping in partnership with a leading mapping, geospatial and photogrammetry survey company in Turkey, has together begun a 10...
Luke Wijnberg
Aug 30, 20162 min read
77 views
0 comments


Aerial Mapping in Mauritius by drone
Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, 1000km East of Madagascar. This tropical paradise has been inhabited and colonised by various...
Luke Wijnberg
May 19, 20163 min read
266 views
0 comments
bottom of page