Southern Mapping Company products

Southern Mapping Company produces two main outputs: A photomap, known as an orthophoto, and a contour survey, (Detailed Terrain/Elevation Model), which is a detailed picture of a terrain in terms of topographical features.

Southern Mapping Company will survey any area and recreate it accurately on your computer in 3D. From this, detailed designs can be produced for roads, railways, mining, pipelines, drainage, and any other surveying assignment that my be required.

The company uses the latest aerial survey equipment, the ALTM 3100 EA (an Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper), and the Rollei AIC (Aerial Industrial Camera) with a PhaseOne P45 CCD. Optech the supplier of the laser equipment has a dedicated ALTM customer services division for training and customer support. They pride themselves in offering 24/7 technical support for all ALTM customers.

The 3D accurate earth surface data collected during a airborne lidar survey can be used for a variety of applications.

This has become the method of choice for the following industries:

Power utilities

Aerial mapping
Pipeline utilities
Urban environments
Highways and railroads
Telecommunication companies

Orion C200

The Orion C200 is the first in a series of Airborne Laser Terrain Mappers (ALTM's) tailor-made for the corridor market. This low-altitude mapping solution addresses the needs of a burgeoning industry demanding a turn-key solution, which is fully supported, upgradeable and cost-effective.

The ALTM Orion C200 incorporates an eye-safe, 1.5 micron high-precision laser with an effective repetition rate of 200 kHz, and a variable field of view for those requiring maximum available density in a robust and flexible package.

The ALTM Orion C200 fires 200,000 laser pulses per second, ensuring that highly accurate and dense topographic data can be rapidly acquired. Weighing just 27 kilograms, this device is easily installed in most aircrafts used for aerial mapping. The modular design of the Orion ensures maximum reliability, even in the most demanding operating environments.

ALTM 3100 EA (Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper)

The ALTM laser is acknowledged as the world's best lidar laser machine. Compact and portable, it requires a simple installation onto fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters, and provides high-resolution, high-accuracy, digital elevation data.

Equipped with the latest software from Optech, we can view your data quickly and without having to take it into REALM for full processing.

It provides for fast and efficient processing and visualisation of data and enables us to quickly ascertain data quality.

The laser ranges to trees and to the ground beneath in a single pass. Its rapid coverage and data output sees 1,000 km² covered in less than 12 hours, and the DEM data is available within 24 hours.

Rollei Aerial Industrial Camera

The Rollei Aerial Industrial Camera is a highly durable, reliable digital camera system that provides superior digital imagery. The system is fully integrated with the ALTM and is managed in flight through the use of ALTM NAV and the Rollei Controller software.

The high resolution AIC is designed for the demands of aerial and industrial purposes, especially designed with minimal moving parts, rigid lens platform and high reliability. The body is made of a stable one piece aluminium alloy body for enhanced endurance in aerial applications. The camera orientation is flexible, allowing a portrait or landscape mode.

The AIC lenses are based on the series of professional middle format lenses from Rollei. The heart and soul of the lenses and also of the AIC is the Rollei electronic shutter. The electronic shutter is an iris shutter with a maximum speed of 1/1000 of a second.

The Rollei AIC camera platform is a dynamic and stable addition to the ALTM and can meet the demands of today's aerial photography.

PhaseOne P65+

The Phase One P 65+ is the first digital back and camera system to take advantage of the new Sensor+ design and is the world's first full-frame capture system based on actual 645 film format.

The P 65+ provides the largest live digital capture area available so far with coverage of 53.9mm x 40.4mm - enabling full viewfinder coverage thus no need for lens magnification. It boasts a sensor resolution of 60.5 Megapixels and improvements and upgrades based on Sensor+ technology have been designed to enable scaleable pixel anf file size, higher sensitivity and dynamic range, increased flexibility for operation and capture, as well as improved capture rates.

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