Better land decisions begin with clarity.
Landscan provides up-to-date visual information of real places through drone surveys and immersive video experiences, working across the UK.
What we doWhat is a drone scan?
A drone scan is a survey carried out by a drone. It either captures many photographs or uses LiDAR, a laser that measures distance. The result reveals remarkable context, and you can zoom from thousands of hectares down to a single tree branch.
Landscan is devoted to natural world imaging, and has a special interest in forestry, conservation and land restoration.
What we do
Any of these can be commissioned on its own, or alongside the others. Tell us about the project and we will suggest what suits it.
Forestry
Compartment planning, extraction routes, restocking and windblow, measured across the whole wood.
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Land Management & Conservation
Baselines for restoration and habitat work, measurable and repeatable, built to show change over years.
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Immersive Video
360° film that puts trustees, funders and the public on the site without the journey.
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Cartography
Professional mapping and digitisation for operational planning, grant applications and regulatory compliance.
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Training
Private sessions on flying your own site and capturing survey data that holds up.
Learn moreDecisions that last decades deserve current information.
Land decisions are made on experience, and experience carries further when the information underneath it is current.
A current visual baseline gives that judgement a firmer foundation.
Whole-site perspective
See everything before narrowing focus, so time and budget are directed to the areas of greatest need.
A shared reference
One baseline that owners, managers, agents, contractors and funders can all work from.
A record of change
A consistent visual record that can be revisited as management progresses and conditions alter.
A background to draw on
A scan is the layer everything else sits on. Compartments, habitat boundaries, access routes and designs are drawn over a current picture of the site as it actually is, with the context there in front of you while the decisions are being made.
It is georeferenced to the British National Grid and measurable throughout, at sub-metre positional accuracy, so what you draw over it holds its place. The same background carries into the next plan, and the one after that.
We work alongside qualified inspectors and surveyors. A scan gives them the whole site to look at, so time on the ground goes where it is needed.
- Experience
- Surveying since 2020Projects across the UK
- Scale
- 2,400 hectaresOur largest single survey
- Published
- Quarterly Journal of ForestryAnd Forestry & Timber News
- Teaching
- Royal Forestry SocietyDrone Surveys in Forestry course
Every site is different.
A conversation is usually the best way to determine how we can support your current projects. Early discussion is often valuable, even before formal engagement.