From valves to vegetation accurate from .03’ to 20’, let Axis GeoSpatial provide you with the custom data that fits your application in the digital format you require. When it’s too dangerous, inconvenient or costly for you to be in the field but you need data that’s accurate, detailed and reliable, you need Axis GeoSpatial as your project partner. We can achieve the highest accuracy standard in the industry and have over 20 years experience in photo interpretation. You would be amazed at what we can locate and identify from 2000’ above the terrain.

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What scale and accuracy do you need?

1” = 10’ and larger – EXTREMELY DETAILED & ACCURATE! Mainly used for Highway Reconstruction, at this scale we will fly photography at a scale between 1” = 50’ to 1” = 100’ and get horizontal and vertical accuracies as high as .03’ on hard surfaces. That’s correct, the photography is at a scale of 1” = 50’ ! We use a helicopter to fly 300’ above the project in order to achieve that level of accuracy. At this level, right-of-way lines in the roads are the size of sidewalks in standard photography. Don’t plan on using this technology for small projects, though. The helicopter transport an extraordinarily high cost and only becomes cost effective on larger projects where time in the field would prove more costly or dangerous.

1” = 20’ to 1” = 30’ – Primarily used in ALTA Surveys, Streetscape Projects, As-Builts, etc, this scale mapping requires 1” = 200’ to 1” = 300’ photography and will produce horizontal and vertical accuracies as high as .1’ on well defined points. Request this level of detail if your project requires the location of features as small as water valves, fire hydrants, and other small utilities and features. For example, this scale permits the delineation of the face of curb, the back of curb and the gutter. Air vents, AC units, small pipes, and just about anything larger the a valve cover can be located and identified at this scale. We can even see garden hoses laying on rooftops and can count the number of blades on the fan of an air unit.

1” = 40’ to 1” = 50’ – The majority of mapping we do is at this scale. Data at this level of detail and accuracy is used in a large variety of engineering and surveying applications such as Commercial and Residential Site Planning, Sewer & Water Planning and Design, Stormwater Management, Landfill and Quarry base mapping and volume comps, etc. To achieve this level of accuracy and detail, Axis GeoSpatial will fly 1” = 300’ to 1” = 400’ (depending on the contour interval required, if any) and achieve horizontal and vertical accuracies as high as tenths of a foot on well defined points. This scale photography will allow the depiction of all major features such as curbs, culverts, catch basins, manholes, fences, sidewalks, poles, etc. and larger. Depending on certain atmospheric and environmental factors at the time of photography, it will allow for the location of 80-90% of smaller utilities such as hydrants, valves, smaller drains and catch basins, and other small features. Of course if we fly it in Color, features can be located and identified more reliably due to the added dimension of color. In B&W photography a fire hydrant can sometimes be mistaken for something else but in Color, the red can give it away.

1” = 100’ and smaller – This level of detail and accuracy are used when only major features such as transportation, structures, hydrography, major utilities, vegetation, etc. are required and precision accuracy isn’t. This scale of mapping will require 1” = 600’ photography and smaller and will produce accuracies as high as .5’. This data is primarily used for Planning; smaller scales such as 1” = 200’ are used for GIS Applications by Municipal and County Governmental Agencies.