Drone photogrammetry model of a farm property and the terrain around it

Capabilities

Landscape scans & photogrammetry.

The terrain in our models is the real terrain. A drone captures the site as high-resolution imagery, which becomes a measurable 3D model and large-format printouts a planning team can work from.

Method: Drone photogrammetryDeliverables: Ultra-high-resolution printouts, 3D modelsUsed in: Land use & development planning

Challenge

A visualization is only as trustworthy as the ground it’s built on.

Solution

Drone photogrammetry captures sites as measurable 3D terrain, providing the foundation for many of Ironfin’s site-based visualizations.

Impact

Gives a project team a measurable 3D record of the site to plan against and to build later visualizations on.

Aerial photograph of a farm property with fields, tree lines, outbuildings and a road running through it — SOURCE: RAW DRONE PHOTOGRAPH

Dense white point cloud of the same property, structures and field edges readable in the point data — PROCESSED: POINT CLOUD FROM OVERLAPPING AERIAL IMAGERY

Textured 3D terrain model of the property floating on a dark measurement grid — OUTPUT: MEASURABLE 3D TERRAIN MODEL

Related work

Lakeside site image animated as a motion study

Capabilities

Motion studies

Bringing existing stills and site photography into motion.

Image-to-video

3D render of three caribou standing on rocky tundra, with a mine site and water visible on the horizon behind them

Public hearings & consultation

Wildlife migration overpass

Showing a community how infrastructure and a caribou herd coexist.

3D stills · Consultation