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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!

Callum Throw

Leveraging Tree Surveys and Reports with Innovative Technology 🌳 Drone Pilot 🚁 3D, VR & XR for Arboriculture Advocate | AI Enthusiast

2mo

This looks very clean - 3DGS? The joys of having a entire drone team at your disposal ay, James! Look forward to seeing/hearing more.

Jesse Coleman

Owner/Managing Director at Kōwhai Treecare LTD Co Director/Chief pilot Kōwhai Aero LTD

2mo

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!

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Ben Blowers

GIS Lead @ Lucion | Director @ AGI

2mo

Thats so cool. Can you overlay RPAs and/or add colours to the trees and text labels for things like height or cardinal direction?

Giles Coe

Director & Ecologist at Co-ecology Ltd

2mo

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?

Alke Sumfleth-Stevens

Public Realm and Street Design expert, Landscape architect, Urban designer and Landscape led Masterplanner, Innovative thinker and Researcher

2mo

Wow! Amazing work! Looking forward to working with you again!

Martina Girvan

Head of Ecology and Arboriculture and Natural Capital Community of Practice at Arcadis

2mo

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!

Peter Brais

Associate Director - Arboriculture at Wardell Armstrong LLP

2mo

Great work James. Definitely opportunities for this tech in the future.

George Cope

ACIEEM, Consultant Ecologist and keen conservationist, with an interest to specialise in herpetology.

2mo

Amazing work James and the team, so excited for this 🌳

Andy Poynter FArborA, MICFor

Technical Director (Arboriculture) at Tetra Tech Europe

2mo

This is great 👍

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