Because We Care About Your Success

Aerial Mapping Solutions For Professionals

We work collaboratively with surveyors, engineers, project managers, property developers, environmental managers, exploration companies and more to deliver precision, world-class LIDAR mapping services and CAD-ready deliverables you can rely on.

Professional and Fit For Purpose!

LIDAR, RGB, Thermal, Multispectral and More

Our enterprise-grade, PPK-enabled UAVs are equipped with the latest professional sensors to meet your project needs, including LIDAR with integrated RGB, Thermal and RGB with 20X Zoom to radiometrically measure heat, RedEdge Multispectral to detect small differences in vegetation reflectance, and more.

No Project Too Large
or Too Small

From Urban Blocks to National Parks

Queensland Drones has the skills, experience and resources to map almost any location or situation, regardless of size or complexity. Our largest mapping projects to date include 36 square kilometres of heavy tropical forest and 244 linear kilometres of heavily vegetated rivers and creeks. We work across Australia, not just in Queensland, so let us know what you need.

Not Just Pretty Pictures!

Full In-House Processing,
CAD-Ready Outputs

We don’t just capture pretty pictures, we capture precision geographic data and turn it into accurate, high quality 3D point clouds, breaklines, TiN Mesh, 2D orthomosaics, elevation contours, planimetric features, all the CAD-Ready outputs you need to get straight to work. Our GIS team has the skills and experience to integrate with your project workflows.

Trust The Respected
Industry Professionals!

CASA-Certified, Fully Insured, Reliable and Fast

When what you need really matters, turn to a professional, experienced UAV operator who cares about the outcomes. Our licensed and experienced work crews come with construction-spec 4×4 vehicles, full PPE kit, all required safety equipment and our Job Safety Management System is able to integration with your SWMS requirements.

Aerial LIDAR Mapping and Survey Specialists

We’re Queensland Drones, delivering precise and reliable commercial drone services.

We specialise in aerial LIDAR survey mapping, primarily for:

engineers
surveyors
developers
planners
environmental managers
building designers
project managers
and other professionals.

We can work independently, in close cooperation with your preferred surveyors, or with our experienced registered surveyors.

Drone Survey Processing

At Queensland Drones, our business includes providing drone data processing services to land surveyors throughout Australia. From photogrammetry to lidar processing, point cloud classification to production of DEMs, DSMs, TiN Mesh Grids and CAD drafting, we can help you get the most out of your drone survey programs. If you are interested in learning more about how Queensland Drones can help your business, let us know using the form on our Contact Page or call Tony on 1300 025 111.

Partner with us to help your organisation thrive! We work with small and large organisations, government agencies, surveyors, engineers, project managers and conservation managers across Queensland and throughout Australia to inform better decision-making.

Why Choose Us?

Professional, State of the Art Services

We provide our clients with fast, accurate, professional and state-of-the-art PPK aerial mapping services including LIDAR point clouds, TiN Mesh surface models, elevation contours, topographic maps, breakline and feature extraction, water flow projections and vegetation inspections and more.

We Work Across Australia

We are based in Brisbane, Queensland, but operate regularly through Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. We also travel to other parts of Australia as required. We specialise in regional and remote area mapping and can currently hand projects up to 50,000 Ha (but our capabilities are improving all the time, so please ask us even if your project is larger than this).

Secured Outputs Delivered in Your Preferred Platform

If your project data is confidential or sensitive, please be assured that we do not use cloud-based processing platforms. All our processing is done manually by our own experienced GIS specialists, to ensure you receive the outputs you need, quality checked and ready to use in your preferred CAD and BIM platforms. We can even deliver outputs CAD-ready in AutoCAD Revit formats.

Our Commercial Drone Services

Orthographic
Mapping

LIDAR
Mapping

Thermal
Mapping

Multispectral
Mapping

Our commercial drone services are constantly evolving and growing. They include:

Aerial LIDAR Mapping

Our PPK-enabled airborne LIDAR mapping sensor with fully integrated and calibrated 26MP RGB mapping camera delivers LIDAR mapping accuracy of 5-10cm without ground control points and 2-4cm precision when combined with accurately measured ground control points.

PPK Precision Topographical Mapping

Using the ultra-precise characteristics of commercial-grade PPK-enabled aerial mapping and aerial lidar drones, Queensland Drones can now deliver on-site surveys for construction and engineering with a spatial (geographic) accuracy of 1-2 cm, even over very large areas.

Aerial Road and Corridor Surveys

Our road mapping and corridor mapping services using PPK precision drones is ideal for rapid surveying and inspection of road projects, railway lines, oil and gas pipelines, transmission lines and linear right of way corridors.

Construction and Development Surveys

Queensland Drones is a professional, CASA-Certified UAV operator providing a range of high quality site mapping, progress tracking and project marketing services for construction sites and development sites.

Environmental Mapping and Monitoring

Queensland Drones delivers the most comprehensive suite of aerial environmental mapping and survey services currently offered in Australia. We work closely and collaboratively with our clients to ensure our environmental mapping services are optimised to your requirements.

Aerial Assets and Infrastructure Inspections

Queensland Drones provides aerial drone infrastructure inspection services for energy companies, telecommunications companies, water supply companies, forestry companies, local governments and anyone who needs safe, fast inspection of critical infrastructure and assets in difficult locations.

Mine and Quarry Mapping

Queensland Drones specialises in precision volumetric measurement mapping and modelling of large and complex mine sites, quarries, landfills, agricultural and development sites, even in remote areas. Our commercial grade PPK mapping drones, combined with precise RTK ground control where required, can capture 2-3cm precision data even across large areas.

Multispectral Farm and Vegetation Mapping

Queensland Drones provides advanced multispectral mapping of crops, orchards, infrastructure corridors and environmental management areas using Rededge multispectral sensors mounted on our multicopter, fixed wing and VTOL fixed wing UAVs.

Large Farm and Property Infrastructure Mapping

Our detailed farm mapping service uses purpose-designed fixed wing mapping drones to capture all of your property in amazing detail, and can be rendered in many different ways to meet your property management needs. It’s a flexible, powerful way to visualise larger properties.

Why You Should be Using Queensland Drones

What Our Clients Are Saying...

“Tony was fantastic to deal with, very prompt, professional, and delivered high quality Lidar results quickly from a tricky area on a tight deadline. The fast delivery of results helped our project to move forward. Queensland Drones 5 star service.”

Siobhan Sweeney, Geology Manager, Cufe Ltd