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Drone LiDAR Scanning
Millimeter-accurate aerial point clouds captured by sensor-equipped UAVs.
// Coverage / NC / Charlotte
Engineering-grade aerial LiDAR across the Charlotte 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
The Carolina Piedmont around Charlotte rolls gently under a mix of pine plantation and hardwood bottomland — clearcut and graded sites fly clean year-round, while raw acreage headed for entitlement usually earns a winter leaf-off flight for reliable bare-earth. Afternoon convection in summer and occasional tropical-remnant rain events are the weather variables worth planning around.
Charlotte Douglas International, one of the busiest hubs in the country, centers its Class B directly over the city — Uptown and South End both sit under low shelves where our pilots run LAANC authorizations as a matter of course. Concord-Padgett Regional and Rock Hill's airport frame the northeast and southwest growth corridors with lighter airspace.
South End's tower boom keeps stacking residential and office verticals along the Blue Line, and the River District on the west side is opening thousands of acres of new master-planned ground near the airport. Growth radiates outward — Lake Norman and Huntersville to the north, Cabarrus County's industrial parks toward Concord, and Indian Land just across the state line — while steady road-widening programs feed corridor mapping across the region.
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 Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 North Carolina 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 Charlotte site for the fastest turnaround.