06/10/2025
Proud moment from our little corner of Bundaberg, QLD 💪
Our small but mighty surveying team at InsiteSJC has been featured in the current edition of The Surveyor (Surveyors Australia). It’s proof you don’t need a capital-city postcode to kick goals on a national stage - just good people, solid practice, and curiosity.
The project in a nutshell: we surveyed ~69 ha for concept designs for a biofuel facility using drone-mounted LiDAR, then ground-truthed the surface with 370 RTK GNSS checks across different land covers. By comparing LiDAR vs RTK in roads/tracks, cane, low/medium grass, tall grass, and woodland/scrub, we gained an understanding of the conditions where our drone LiDAR is reliable, where it struggles, and why.
Key takeaways:
• Thick, low-lying vegetation is the natural enemy—it blocks returns and can confuse filtering.
• Minimum-bin processing generally improves results versus averaging.
• Bin size matters—the choice can materially change outcomes and should be considered with site topography in mind.
If you’re a surveyor, engineer, or planner and want the slide deck (methods, stats, and processing comparisons), DM us and we’ll share a copy. Happy to compare notes on workflows, pitfalls, and where LiDAR pays back vs where conventional pickup is still worth it.
