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Drone LiDAR Scanning
Millimeter-accurate aerial point clouds captured by sensor-equipped UAVs.
// Coverage / CA / Sacramento
Engineering-grade aerial LiDAR across the Sacramento area — captured by FAA-certified pilots who fly this market every week, processed to one national QA standard, delivered in the formats your team works in.
01// Field Notes
Sacramento sits at the meeting of its namesake river and the American, on Central Valley floodplain so flat and low that levees define where the city can grow — terrain where inches of vertical accuracy carry real regulatory weight. Winter tule fog is the honest scheduling constraint, socking in valley mornings from December into February; the other ten months offer some of the most reliable capture weather in the state.
Sacramento International anchors Class C on the north side, with Mather, McClellan, Sacramento Executive, and Lincoln spreading GA and cargo traffic across the region. Beale AFB and its ranges sit to the north and Travis AFB to the southwest, but the valley floor between them is straightforward flying — most suburban growth areas need little more than a quick LAANC grant.
Decades-scale levee improvement and floodplain programs along both rivers and the Yolo Bypass make this one of the most flood-data-driven markets in the country, layered under steady state-government facility work downtown. The growth arc from Elk Grove around to Roseville and Folsom churns out subdivisions, schools, and roadway widenings, the downtown Railyards redevelopment is filling one of the largest urban infill sites in the West, and valley solar projects add rural capture at scale.
02// Capabilities
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Millimeter-accurate aerial point clouds captured by sensor-equipped UAVs.
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Bare-earth terrain models and contours, with licensed surveyor partners for certified deliverables.
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Ground-classified LAS/LAZ, DEM GeoTIFFs, SHP files, and CAD contours ready for your workflow.
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Long-linear capture for pipelines, transmission lines, roads, and rail.
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Repeat flights that document earthwork, verify grades, and keep projects on schedule.
03// FAQ
Most Sacramento projects fall between $2,500 and $15,000 depending on acreage, vegetation, deliverables, and whether certified survey control is required. Small single-site scans start lower; large campuses and corridors are quoted per site or per linear mile. Send a KML of your site and we return an exact quote within 24 hours.
Because our FAA-certified pilots are local to the Sacramento area, most sites can be captured within days of contract — weather and airspace authorization permitting — without travel mobilization costs. Processed deliverables typically follow within one to two weeks depending on scope.
Our point clouds, DEMs, and contours are engineering-grade and drop directly into CAD, GIS, and BIM workflows. When a deliverable must carry a professional land surveyor's certification, we partner with licensed surveyors in California to provide it. Remote Optix Inc. and Pro LiDAR are not professional land surveyors and do not represent themselves as such.
04// Start a Project
Upload a KML/KMZ of your Sacramento site for the fastest turnaround.