Survey-grade bare-earth LiDAR. Vegetation removed. ≤ 1.5 cm absolute accuracy with mm-level internal precision. 24–48 hour turnaround. Drops directly into Civil 3D, AGTEK, TBC, and your machine control.
Drag the divider. On the left: photogrammetry / RGB surface (DSM) where vegetation obscures true grade. On the right: Agcopter's LiDAR bare-earth ground model (DTM), with vegetation removed and ground measured directly.
Vegetation obscures true grade. Quantities, slopes, and drainage are open to interpretation. You're bidding on guesswork that became a number.
Quantities, grades, and flow paths are based on the surface you will actually build. Cut/fill, slopes, drainage — defensible.
A single Agcopter flight produces the RGB photographic record, a survey-grade bare-earth DTM with vegetation removed, and a drainage and flow-path model derived directly from the bare surface. Scroll to compare.
High-resolution aerial RGB — useful for siting, documentation, and orientation. But quantities and grades cannot be read from this surface alone. Vegetation, understory, and crop canopies obscure the ground that actually carries the cut/fill volume.
Vegetation removed. Ground measured directly with independently validated ≤ 1.5 cm absolute accuracy and mm-level internal precision. Reliable resolution of flat planes and sharp grade breaks — pads, curbs, ADA slopes — with high-density ground points where the design demands them.
Synthetic drainage routed across the bare-earth surface. Identifies low spots, ephemeral channels, and grade breaks that drive drainage design and earthwork strategy. In stands with thin existing topographic data, this is often the best representation available of how water moves on the ground.
Commercial satellite elevation data typically reports 1 to 3 meters of vertical accuracy. Sounds close enough until you do the math.
Off by 1 meter across a 50-acre site is roughly 80,000 cubic yards of misread earthwork. Off by 3 meters is approaching a quarter million. Every cubic yard you miss is contingency you can't price, scope you didn't catch, or a change-order dispute waiting to happen.
LiDAR-grade ground data turns ground unknowns into a defensible number. You bid sharper. You don't lose money to surprise volume. You don't get out-bid by a competitor pricing fantasy.
Six capabilities that decide whether ground data is actually usable in pre-bid estimating, grading design, and GPS machine control.
Independently validated. mm-level internal precision. Defensible against owner review and value-engineering scrutiny.
Vegetation classified out of the cloud. The DTM is the surface a dozer will actually move dirt on — not the canopy above it.
Reliable cut/fill and drainage modeling on real terrain — including the inflections, breaks, and low spots that drive volume.
Pre-bid and in-progress work delivered fast enough to actually use. Send your KML — get a quote and timeline back today.
Pads, curbs, and ADA-compliant slopes come through the surface cleanly — flat planes stay flat, edges stay edges.
Re-fly during construction. Same georeferenced surfaces, mm-consistent. Quantity progress and reconciliation become measurements, not arguments.
Surfaces and outputs provided ready for estimator review, survey validation, and GPS machine control — without rework, translation, or cleanup.
Six places where survey-grade bare-earth LiDAR turns into decisions, dollars, and defensible documentation.
Quantity-confidence high enough to bid sharper without increasing downside risk. Send your KML; get a surface back before the bid closes.
Run real options against real terrain. Move the pad here, lower the cut there, and see what the actual surface costs you in cubic yards.
Cut/fill calculated against the bare surface, not the canopy. High-density ground points where the design needs them.
Synthetic flow paths derived from the bare earth — low spots, channels, and crossings revealed before the first scraper hits the dirt.
LandXML and Trimble-ready surfaces drop into the box without rework. The dozer is grading the surface you bid.
Re-fly mid-job. Mm-consistent surfaces give you defensible progress quantities — and an as-built record at no extra ops cost.
Native support for the formats and tools your estimating, survey, and machine control teams already run on.
A short fly-through of one Agcopter Earthwork project, showing the bare-earth surface as it would appear in Civil 3D or your machine control software.
We'll respond within one business day with a price, timeline, and the deliverable formats your team needs. Pacific Northwest.
