Inspired by industry colleagues, the Arcadis Arboricultural team has been experimenting with drone surveys as part of our BS 5837 data collection process. In collaboration with our in-house drone team we’ve been able to efficiently collect spatial data for modelling and site visualisation while ensuring safety for surveyors and other site users. As we’re often some of the first on a site, we’re finding that the additional visualisation capabilities that drone surveys provide are proving invaluable for the early stages of a project. One of the greatest revelations to me has been the ability to target important or interesting trees to provide detailed 3D visualisations like the one in the video. I think the results speak for themselves! We will be working on ways to incorporate this into our reporting so they can be easily provided to clients and end users. I can’t write a post on this topic without giving a nod to Callum Throw for all his great work in this area! If you’re interested in finding out more about what Arcadis Arboriculture team can provide please feel free to reach out!
Great work, James! This popped up in my feed, and I love seeing progress in this space. At Kōwhai Aero, we can process point clouds to isolate trees and generate concise reports with details like height, DBH, canopy spread, etc (depending on the data acquisition). We specialize in using LiDAR and are excited to see others exploring technology!
Thats so cool. Can you overlay RPAs and/or add colours to the trees and text labels for things like height or cardinal direction?
Nice model James. How are you using the images, for further inspection, to help design protection proposals, to illustrate your findings, or all of those?
Wow! Amazing work! Looking forward to working with you again!
It's been so much fun working with you on drone and other habitat measurement and modelling to accelerate our Nature Advisory Service offerings, a very exciting future!
Great work James. Definitely opportunities for this tech in the future.
Amazing work James and the team, so excited for this 🌳
This is great 👍
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2moThis looks very clean - 3DGS? The joys of having a entire drone team at your disposal ay, James! Look forward to seeing/hearing more.