Quick and easy reality capture
Hovermap collects detailed, accurate and georeferenced survey data.
Featuring unique – and industry leading – versatility, Hovermap can be deployed via drone, backpack, or handheld modes, enabling data capture in challenging environments.
Automated georeferencing and streamlined workflows accelerate efficiency, from scan to output, by removing manual and potentially error-prone tasks.
Use Hovermap for
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Mobile mapping
SLAM-based mobile mapping provides exceptional mobility, allowing you to traverse quickly through a site to capture the data with a handheld scan. Hovermap also gives you the ability to capture more difficult or dangerous areas from the air by mounting it to a drone.
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Mapping in more areas
Get accurate reality capture, even in small, tight, dark, or GPS-denied areas. Hovermap’s range of accessories and IP65 rating gives you the versatility and confidence to map any environment without fearing knocks, bumps, dust, rain, or extreme temperatures.
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Survey grade accuracy
When used with Emesent’s Automated Ground Control workflow, Hovermap can provide unrivaled SLAM accuracy and survey grade point clouds. Automated georeferencing and streamlined workflows accelerate efficiency, from scan to output, by removing manual tasks.
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Faster insights
Save time on set-up, relocation, and pack down tasks with mobile mapping, compared to terrestrial scanning. Faster processing time will enable you to start manipulating the data sooner and access insights faster.
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GPS-denied mapping
Hovermap’s slam-based mapping allows capture in GPS-denied areas without ground control. Capture tight spaces in GPS shadow, inside metal structures, or dense forestry without concern for GPS fallout.
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Hands-free mobile mapping
Increase personnel safety by keeping hands free while mapping forestry or areas that require handrail contact. One of Hovermap’s versatile options provides backpack-mounted scanning for easy, comfortable hands-free mapping.
Award Winning Solution
Capture and visualize data for geospatial applications
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Topographical Surveys
Quickly capture topo surveys with foliage-penetrating LiDAR to give you all the detail you need.
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Deformation & Erosion Monitoring
Repeat scans to rapidly assess changes and highlight degradation, erosion, and other environmental impacts.
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Urban Mapping
Facade mapping and inspection is easy with Hovermap’s omnidirectional Collision Avoidance and SLAM-based flight capabilities to ensure rapid and safe capture even in GPS shadow.
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Bridge Inspection
Conduct comprehensive visual inspection and mapping of every part of a bridge. Hovermap’s autonomy, GPS-denied flight, and adjustable Collision Avoidance enable safe access from the tallest tower to under the deck.
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Internal Surveys
Quickly walk Hovermap through the internals of a building to capture a detailed point cloud to create accurate floor plans or capture internal measurements.
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Forestry
Quickly gain rich data and a full capture to provide tree height, diameter, canopy cover, species composition, and volume of trees for yield.
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Conservation & Archeology
Digitize older structures to update records, plan restoration work, or preserve details for virtual study.
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Facilities Management
Use the accurate data of existing assets to plan maintenance and facility management.
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Asset Inspection
Easily capture LiDAR data and inspection images of an entire asset. View the capture in real-time to be confident you’ve achieved complete coverage before leaving site.
Explore real-life Hovermap applications
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Fast and Accurate Topographical Surveys
Hear from LSTC Group, surveying experts, about how they are collecting, checking and drawing topographical surveys for building sites, cable routes, and volumetrics.
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GeoZICHT Achieves Entire Traffic Bridge Inspection
GeoZICHT sought a tool to enhance the collection of complete visual inspection data for bridge inspections while also increasing the overall safety of the underlying process.
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Better Coverage and Efficiency for Industrial Plants and Infrastructure Data Capture
In this webinar, Dron-e, unmanned aerial system experts, will share how they have increased the efficiency of their data capture while also ensuring better coverage. Technical manager, Andrea, will discuss the capture of a complete power generation plant and the digital reconstruction of a bridge.
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Kalmar Municipality
Kalmar Municipality captured a heritage landmark completely and quickly – a great start to their digital capture of the municipality.
Testimonial
“Having the Hovermap as part of our equipment in the business has increased our efficiency.
We’re able to turn around projects a lot quicker… I’ve been able to grow the business threefold over a matter of years.
Customers are happy with the 3D point cloud we can deliver; they can drop it straight into their CAD package or GIS.”
Why use Hovermap?
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Explore beyond line of sight
When mounted to a drone, Hovermap’s Tap-to-Fly autonomy feature enables mapping in previously inaccessible areas beyond line of sight and communication range. The omnidirectional Collision Avoidance, Guided Exploration, and smart Return-to-Home functions ensure your Hovermap keeps a safe distance from assets and returns home safely with the valuable data it has collected.
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Built for harsh conditions
The tough, weather sealed, IP65 rated unit is dust and water resistant, allowing you to map in severe environments. It can operate in temperatures from -10 to 45°C (14 to 113 °F) as well as high humidity, making it ideal for use in underground mines and other harsh environments.
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Unique versatlility
The plug and play design and quick-release mechanism allow easy switching between modes. Use Hovermap as a handheld scanner; attached to a drone, vehicle, or pole; lowered in a cage; or mounted to a backpack to easily collect data anywhere. The compact, lightweight design makes it easy to carry and provides longer flight time.
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Automated GCP workflow
Georeferencing in underground mines uses standard prisms and spigots that require specialized mounting adaptors. Emesent has developed mining specific GCP’s and GCP adaptors that meet these specialised requirements. GCP’s are automatically detected during scanning, improving accuracy and eliminating the need for manual georeferencing of the point cloud post processing.
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Improved decision making
Mining decision-making is improved with autonomous data capture for volumetrics, over/under break, deformation monitoring, and geotechnical stability monitoring.
Hovermap’s versatility provides autonomous mapping in challenging, inaccessible areas, while the rotating LiDAR provides an omnidirectional field of view, ensuring 3D data is collected in all directions for complete, shadowless point clouds.
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Reliable data
With a combination of world leading LiDAR mapping and drone autonomy, Hovermap produces reliable, accurate data which integrates seamlessly with existing workflows to enable new analytical insights.