Drone & Laser Scanning Victoria

Reality capture across Victoria using LiDAR drones and survey-grade laser scanners. We record a whole site or building in hours, then turn it into the point clouds, models and drawings your team designs from. Book a capture for your project.

Measure Everything Once, Then Stop Going Back

A tape measure records what someone thought to record. Two months into a design, the dimension nobody took is the one that matters, and someone drives back out to the site.

Reality capture records every visible surface instead. Millions of points, collected in a single visit, that can be measured again years later without setting foot on site. On a working hospital or an operating factory, that difference is the whole point.

We run LiDAR and photogrammetry drones for open ground and corridors, NavVis mobile mapping for large interiors, and terrestrial scanners where millimetre accuracy is the requirement. All flights are by CASA-accredited pilots under independently audited procedures, with a parachute-equipped drone for work over populated areas.

"Outright Surveying has been my trusty surveying partner for close to a decade. The service I have received from their surveyors and management team has been second to none." Neville Sabu Alex Construction Manager - John Holland

Reality Capture Across Victoria

Outright Surveying runs its drone and scanning work out of the same business that does the construction setout. That is not a small detail. The people capturing your site have built off survey data themselves, so they know which elements matter.

We work with:

• Architects and design consultants
• Civil contractors and earthworks teams
• Facility owners and asset managers
• Heritage and conservation specialists
• Infrastructure and transport authorities

Data is processed with registration software and AI-assisted extraction, and can be hosted online in iVION so your team measures and annotates the site from a browser instead of chasing point cloud files around.

Drone and Laser Scanning Services Across Victoria

Drone Surveying

Drone survey covers ground that would take a field crew days, and reaches sites that are difficult or unsafe to walk.

We fly both LiDAR and high-resolution photogrammetry. LiDAR is the one that matters on vegetated ground, because laser pulses find the surface underneath the canopy where a camera only sees the top of it. Some road corridors can be captured without a closure, which takes the traffic control cost out of the job entirely.

Deliverables include point clouds, aerial imagery, digital terrain models, contour plans, feature surveys, stockpile calculations, corridor mapping and digital twin datasets. We work with Propeller and Civilio where your team already uses them.

Laser Scanning

Terrestrial laser scanning is still the benchmark when accuracy is the priority. Tied into survey control, it gives millimetre-accurate data for architectural documentation, engineering design, construction verification and as-constructed surveys.

For large buildings, our NavVis mobile system changes the economics. A surveyor walks the building at a normal pace while it continuously captures high-density point cloud and 360 degree imagery, so a hospital or a university that would take days of static setups gets done in a fraction of the field time.

Earthworks Tracking

Earthworks arguments come down to volumes, and volumes come down to who measured what and when.

Regular drone flights track production against previous datasets or against the design surface, so progress claims have numbers behind them and shortfalls show up while there is still time to react. Because our team came from construction setout, we can also build the subgrade machine control files and track volumes off the same data.

You get cut and fill reports, stockpile volumes, heatmaps, quantity calculations and progress reports suitable for client reporting.

Architectural Measurement

Measuring up an existing building with a tape is slow, disruptive and misses things, particularly on anything complex.

Scanning replaces that with millions of survey points captured in a single short visit, then processed in the office. For refurbishment and adaptive reuse, where the original drawings are incomplete or no longer match what was built, it removes the design assumptions that cause problems later.

We deliver floor plans, elevations, sections, reflected ceiling plans, point clouds, Revit models and CAD drawings, extracted from the cloud in whatever format your documentation needs.

Facility Documentation

Hospitals, warehouses, manufacturing plants and commercial buildings all need accurate records, and most of them have drawings that stopped being accurate years ago.

Our scanners capture thousands of points a second, so site visits usually run to hours rather than days and operations keep running around us. Everything after that happens remotely from the office.

Deliverables include registered point clouds, floor plans, elevations, sections, asset layouts, BIM and Revit models, CAD documentation and full digital twin datasets, which we can host online for your team to access.

Heritage & Façade

Heritage buildings are full of irregular geometry and intricate detail that conventional measurement handles badly, and many of them cannot be touched.

Scanning records thousands of colourised points across a façade without contact, capturing the ornate detail and producing a permanent digital record of the building's current condition. That record serves conservation planning and restoration, and doubles as dilapidation documentation before neighbouring works start.

We provide high-density point clouds, orthophotos, façade elevations, sections, CAD drawings, BIM models and digital archives suitable for heritage management.

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