Visualisation-grade today (GNSS-positioned, no ground control); survey-grade with your GCPs or a licensed surveyor’s checkpoints.
LRCCC Speedway, Thunder Bay · ground sample distance (pixel size) 1.00 cm · flown 2026-09-15 · GNSS-positioned, visualisation grade
Who it is for
Small aircraft that travel in a pack, photos processed on my own hardware, maps delivered in the formats your GIS already reads.
A current, georeferenced picture of the claim block for trenching, outcrop mapping, access and camp planning — before the crew leaves site.
Deliverables: orthomosaic GeoTIFF · DSM · GeoPackage · Avenza-ready georeferenced PDF · 3D mesh
Drone mapping that supports geological mapping and reporting can be an eligible contractor cost under the Ontario Junior Exploration Program (50 % of eligible costs, to $200,000 per project for juniors, $50,000 for prospectors). Ask me for a quote formatted for your OJEP budget. Program guidelines (PDF).
Cutblock and planting layout, regeneration and brushing records, road and landing condition — a map the crew carries on a phone, offline.
Deliverables: orthomosaic GeoTIFF · GeoPackage · Avenza-ready PDF · QField project for field data collection
Camp and access planning, progress records, and a 3D flythrough that explains a site to someone who has never stood on it.
Deliverables: orthomosaic · DSM · textured mesh · flythrough video · web map
Work
Every image on this site is from a flight I flew. Each case study carries its own numbers and its own caveats.
LRCCC Speedway, Thunder Bay. Flown by hand at dusk when the planned mission would not run; processed the same night, 60 of 60 photos reconstructed at 0.87 px mean reprojection error.
Read the LRCCC case study →
Cuttle Lake Resort. Two flights, a 4.2 cm orthomosaic, a 2 m DSM, a cinematic flythrough, and a password-protected web map with a data-collection loop the owner runs himself.
Read the Cuttle Lake case study →
LRCCC Speedway, Thunder Bay · ground sample distance (pixel size) 1.00 cm · flown 2026-09-15 · GNSS-positioned, visualisation grade · no basemap: the map is the orthomosaic and nothing else
3D
Textured meshes of both sites, built from the same photos as the maps and viewable on a phone. Nothing downloads until you open one — the models are 9 and 13 MB.
Open the 3D page
LRCCC Speedway mesh · 633,872 vertices · textured from the 1.00 cm orthomosaic · flown 2026-09-15 · GNSS-positioned, visualisation grade
Services
A georeferenced, current aerial map of the site at 1–5 cm ground sample distance, measured in your GIS or carried on a phone.
Formats: GeoTIFF · GeoPackage · Avenza-ready georeferenced PDF · web map tiles
Digital surface model, point cloud and textured mesh from the same flight — for drainage, access and camp planning, and for showing a site to someone who cannot get there.
Formats: DSM GeoTIFF · point cloud LAZ · mesh GLB / OBJ · flythrough MP4
The map on the crew’s phones, offline, with forms that write back to a GeoPackage — sample sites, building details, planting quality, whatever the job needs recorded.
Formats: QField / QFieldCloud project · GeoPackage · password-protected web page
Accuracy, stated plainly. Every map is positioned by the aircraft’s own GNSS (PPK-corrected where the aircraft supports it). That gives excellent relative accuracy — distances, areas and heights within one map are consistent to a few centimetres at a 2-3 cm ground sample distance — and absolute positioning typically within 1-3 m of true ground for GPS-only flights, better with PPK. It is visualisation- and planning-grade: suitable for claim-block reconnaissance, trenching and outcrop mapping, cutblock and planting layout, camp and access planning, and progress records. It is not a legal survey and is not a substitute for a licensed Ontario Land Surveyor. When you need survey-grade absolute accuracy, I fly with your ground control or a surveyor’s checkpoints and deliver an RMSE report against them.
How it works
Email a KMZ, a shapefile, or a pin and a rough area. I come back with a flight plan, the ground sample distance it gives, and a quote — formatted for an OJEP budget if you need it.
A small site is a single flight. I plan against NAV Drone airspace and the weather, and fly from the ground you already have access to — truck-in, boat-in or fly-in.
Photos are processed on my own hardware in Thunder Bay; nothing goes to a cloud service and your data stays in Canada. The LRCCC map went from landing to finished products in nineteen minutes of processing; the delivery window for your site is confirmed with the quote.
About
Owner-operated. I plan the flight, fly it, process it and build the map — no subcontractors, no cloud processing. Based in Thunder Bay. Day trips across Northwestern Ontario; overnight, fly-in and boat-in work along the Wawa and Red Lake corridors.
By day I manage forestry and right-of-way crews across Northwestern Ontario. The mapping came out of that work: a crew with a current map on their phones makes better calls than a crew with a screenshot.
Contact
The fastest honest quote input is the outline of the block. Attach it to an email with where it is, roughly how big, and when — I reply with a plan and a price.
Opens your mail app with the subject and the questions filled in. Attach the KMZ before you send.