3DroneMapping Information

3DroneMapping (3dronemapping.com) is a South Africa-based specialist in high-accuracy drone-based LiDAR aerial surveys, with 15+ years of experience operating across the African continent. Founded and led by experts like Luke Wijnberg (who has extensive field experience flying missions continent-wide), the company focuses on challenging, remote, and large-scale sites where traditional ground surveys are impractical, manned aircraft too expensive, or standard drones too limited in range. They use proprietary long-range VTOL fixed-wing drones (vertical takeoff and landing for flexibility) and multirotor platforms, custom-built for harsh African conditions (e.g., dense jungles, deserts, remote islands). These carry advanced multiple-return LiDAR scanners that pulse lasers at high rates (e.g., >720,000 points/second), penetrating vegetation to capture true bare-earth terrain (ground level beneath canopy), unlike photogrammetry which often struggles with thick cover.