What we do

Services

First, we find out what kind of map you need, and give you a price so you know what the costs would be early on. The primary factor in price is the altitude of the flight and the level of resolution you need in your map imagery. We then process the imagery, using photogrammetry software to join the hundreds, or thousands of photos for bigger farms, merged into one image called an orthomosaic. As well as the visual image, every pixel holds its own coordinate and elevation data, which can be measured accurately from. We draw the layers you need on top. You get drone work without the big-company overhead, and it is significantly cheaper than you would expect from a survey or consulting company.

This is not cadastral surveying. Geomap NZ does not do boundary or cadastral work, and that is a licensed cadastral surveyor's job.

Farm Mapping

Orthomosaics, elevation, contours, drainage and paddock and fence layouts, drawn cleanly over your property.

Repeat flights show change over time, season on season.

Close detail of a Taranaki dairy farm map: numbered, colour-coded paddocks with their areas over a drone orthomosaic

Orthomosaics

Our main product. Hundreds or thousands of photos stitched into one georeferenced map.

For as-builts, we pick up control on the ground with the RTK rover.

Detail of a 3 cm drone orthomosaic: cattle and their shadows in a paddock beside a fence line, seen from directly above

Environmental Monitoring

Repeatable flights over streams, coast and planting sites.

Matched captures show change over time, without guesswork.

Aerial view at dusk of a Taranaki river mouth meeting the sea, pasture on one side and black sand on the other

AI Native Tree ID Model

A native tree identification model in development, built on RTK-geotagged ground truth.

The ground-truthing work is available as a service on its own.

Overhead drone view of a freshly planted riparian strip along a rock-lined stream, with young native plants in mulch on both banks

Multispectral

Plant-health mapping from a Phantom 4 Multispectral.

We are honest about this one: we are still learning the tool, and we will tell you what the data can and cannot show.

Detail of an NDVI plant-health map, with colour showing where vegetation is vigorous and where it is sparse

Inspections

General and close visual inspection, with geotagged findings you can act on.

If you only need eyes on something, remote visual inspection by drone gets it done.

We are based in Okato, Taranaki, close to New Plymouth, and we work anywhere in New Zealand. The kit carries enough batteries to fly all day, and the vehicle has its own power, so multi-day campaigns in very remote areas are realistic. We can fly in, or tramp all day to a launch point. Remote-area work is our niche, and industrial sites are fine too.

Who we work with

Farmers and lifestyle block owners, land use and environmental consultants, researchers, councils and catchment groups, engineers and civil contractors. If you need to see, measure or monitor a piece of land, get in touch.

Have a site in mind?

Tell us what you need mapped, monitored or inspected. We will tell you straight whether a drone is the right tool for the job.

Get in touch