Field Notes · From the flight line

Notes fromthe field.

Survey write-ups, LiDAR insights and operational doctrine from Northland missions — written by the crew who flew them. Practical, specific, and occasionally opinionated about point density.

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Aerial view of an open Northland coastline at low tide

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Coastal

06 Oct 2026 · 1 min

Why we tide-window coastal LiDAR flights (and what it costs you if we don't)

An erosion baseline is only repeatable if every epoch captures the same beach. That means flying to the tide table, not the calendar.

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LiDAR

06 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Reading a multi-return LiDAR point cloud: what the returns actually tell you

First, intermediate and last returns are not just metadata. For a forestry or infrastructure survey they are the difference between a pretty picture and a bare-earth model you can design against.

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