You don't commission a drone flight. You commission a decision.
Anyone can fly a drone and hand over a folder of images. Very few hand over something a client can act on. Something to measure against, rely on, and build on. Six services. One survey-grade standard. Every deliverable measured, documented, and defensible.
Photos look like a record. Very few actually are one.
The market is loud, cheap, and mostly selling the same thing. A folder of drone images with a nice map on top. What makes a deliverable worth paying for is not the drone, the software, or the price. It's whether the client can make a decision with it.
Fifty photos and a stitched map.
The client can look at it. They can't measure against it, can't verify it against a benchmark, can't rely on it when the numbers get questioned. It goes into a slide deck and gets forgotten.
A measured, georeferenced model.
The client's engineer can measure against it. The insurer can rely on it. The contractor can check progress against it. It stays working for years after the transaction closes.
Not a folder of images. A measured deliverable set.
Every PDC commission ships with the same four output types. Each one is what a client's engineer, insurer, or regulator can actually act on. Not something they look at once.
01 · DSM
Surface model
The visible surface at every elevation. Roofs, structures, terrain. The starting layer an engineer works from.
02 · DTM
Terrain with contours
Bare terrain beneath the surface layer. Contour output in the client's own coordinate system.
03 · Point cloud
Classified point cloud
Ground and non-ground separated. The file a surveyor can load into their own software and audit.
04 · 3D mesh
3D mesh model
Navigable and walkable. The client's own copy that opens in a browser and stays with the asset for years.
Every PDC delivery ships with the processing report, the accuracy statement, and a delivery note. The paperwork is what makes the model defensible.
Six services. One standard.
Each service answers a different kind of brief. All six run on the same survey-grade pipeline. The same discipline behind a residential digital twin as behind an insurance forensics job or a construction schedule. Pick the one that matches your brief, or send us the brief and we'll tell you which service it needs.
Photogrammetry Surveys
Survey-grade 3D models and elevation outputs from aerial capture.
Explore3D Modelling & Digital Twins
Permanent, navigable replicas for stakeholders, marketing, and asset records.
ExploreInsurance Damage Assessment
Forensic capture that stands up to insurer scrutiny and legal review.
ExploreVolumetric Analysis
Stockpile, earthwork, and cut-and-fill volumes measured to survey-grade accuracy.
ExploreConstruction Progress
Dated captures that become permanent evidence for payment and dispute.
ExploreAsset Inspection
Roof, façade, and structure inspection without scaffolds or rope access.
ExplorePhotogrammetry Surveys
When you need to measure, not just lookThe client asks for a survey. What most operators deliver is a folder of images and a stitched map. What a proper photogrammetry survey hands over is a measured, georeferenced 3D model. An orthomosaic, a point cloud, an elevation model. Every output anchored to a reference an engineer can check and defend.
Development sites, quarries, infrastructure records, insurance documentation, and any asset that benefits from measurement-accurate imagery and terrain.
- Georeferenced orthomosaic (GeoTIFF)
- DSM & DTM with contour output
- Classified point cloud (LAS / LAZ)
- Processing report & Independent Validation
Contours + GCPs
3D Modelling & Digital Twins
When the asset needs to be shown, not just recordedA permanent, navigable replica of the asset. Every surface, every finish, every interior detail. Captured once, walkable forever. The deliverable that lets a stakeholder in London, a buyer in Sydney, or a contractor two hours away experience the site as if they were standing in the room.
Heritage buildings, commercial venues, luxury residential, portfolio tours, and any asset where remote stakeholder access matters more than a static image can offer.
- Textured 3D mesh (OBJ)
- Interactive web viewer link
- Ray-traced panoramas
- VR-ready deliverable package
Textured 3D mesh
Insurance Damage Assessment
When the record has to survive a challengeForensic-grade capture of damaged assets that stands up to insurer scrutiny, legal challenge, and independent review. Detailed, dated, defensible. With contemporaneous documentation and chain-of-custody discipline built in from the first frame. Not a record of what the property looked like. A record of what was claimed.
Fire and flood claims, storm damage, structural failure, disputed claims, and any situation where the record of the damaged asset must survive independent legal scrutiny.
- Comprehensive 3D record of the damaged asset
- Annotated imagery with damage mapping
- Chain-of-custody documentation
- Court-ready evidentiary package
Forensic record
Volumetric Analysis
When the numbers carry a dollar valueStockpile, earthwork, and progress volumes measured to survey-grade accuracy. Reconcile quantity claims, verify inventory, monitor cut-and-fill. With a defensible number that states its own tolerance and reconciles cleanly against prior captures. The difference between a settlement figure and a dispute.
Quarries, mining operations, bulk earthworks, construction cut-and-fill, and any context where volume carries a dollar value and settlement depends on defensible measurement.
- Classified point cloud (LAS / LAZ)
- Volumes with tolerance statement
- Reconciliation against prior captures
- DXF contour export for the client's CAD
Volumes + tolerance
Construction Progress
When you need evidence that dates backWeekly or milestone capture that becomes a permanent record of every stage. Payment-claim evidence, coordination tool, dispute protection, and marketing collateral. All from the same flight, delivered in formats the site team can use the morning of the meeting. Data you can walk back through when the milestone is questioned two years from now.
Commercial builds, residential developments, infrastructure projects, and multi-stage constructions where dated evidence matters for payment, progress, or dispute.
- Dated orthomosaic per capture
- Staged point cloud series
- Timeline record you can walk back through
- Stakeholder-ready 3D views
Multi-stage record
Asset Inspection
When the cost of height access is the blockerRoof, façade, and structure inspection without scaffolds, cherry pickers, or rope access. Detailed imagery and 3D condition models that document the asset without exposing anyone to height risk. A fraction of the cost of the alternatives, with a fraction of the disruption. What used to be a week-long access project becomes a two-hour capture.
Property managers, councils, universities, industrial facilities, and insurers. Anyone inspecting a roof, structure, or façade that would otherwise need height access.
- High-resolution orthomosaic and imagery
- Annotated defect report
- 3D condition model for ongoing comparison
- Recurring inspection baseline for scheduling
Inspection record
This is what a finished record actually looks like.
Not a demonstration. Not a concept. A real PDC commission, captured, processed, and delivered as a live, walkable digital twin. This is the standard every service on this page is measured against.
The Plough Inn · Southbank, QLD
A Southbank landmark captured as a full interior and exterior digital twin. Heritage commercial venue recorded at survey-grade accuracy across every façade and every interior surface. A permanent, architecturally-detailed record of the site.
- Full interior and exterior digital twin
- Heritage commercial venue at survey-grade accuracy
- Permanent record for condition and stakeholder access
The care behind every PDC job. Regardless of size.
The scope changes between services. The care taken doesn't. Four things every client can count on. Whether the brief is a single residence or a multi-stage infrastructure program.
Best practice, every commission
The same discipline on a small residential capture as on a large commercial program. Same pipeline, same standards. Nothing changes when the fee changes.
Precision matched to the brief
Not every job needs the tightest tolerance. We work to the accuracy your decision actually requires. And we say so upfront. Sometimes that's sub-centimetre. Sometimes a metre. You know what you're getting, and why.
Documentation you can hand to anyone
Every delivery comes with the processing report, the delivery note, and the accuracy statement. Audit-ready from day one. Whether it's reviewed by your engineer, your insurer, or your legal team.
Direct, personal communication
Every enquiry is read and answered by a working operator. The same person who'd actually run your job. No sales layer, no junior triage. Same business day, every time.
Seven verticals. One standard.
The commercial shape of the practice, in the seven verticals a working operator sells into. Most operators specialise in two or three. The rest come in through referral once the standard is established. Every job below was captured against the same discipline.
Construction & progress
Weekly or milestone capture for payment claims, site records, and dispute protection.
Insurance & forensic
Post-event documentation that holds up to insurer scrutiny or legal challenge.
Asset inspection
Roofs, façade, towers, and structures captured without scaffolds or rope access.
Heritage & cultural
Archival-grade records of sites whose value outlives the physical structure.
Mining, quarry & earthworks
Volumetric work where the numbers carry dollar values and settlement depends on accuracy.
Agriculture & land
Contour mapping, drainage planning, and property records for land management.
Government & councils
Asset registers, parks and open space, road networks, and planning support.
Every vertical above is a niche where a PDC graduate can build a practice. The verticals decide where you sell. The services decide what you sell. The standard is what makes both of them repeatable. See the courses that teach it →
Every job here is a walkable model.
Six of the eight live projects running on the site. A peer into the practice at six different asset types. Open any of them in the browser. No software, no download. The same live 3D delivery every PDC client receives.
Heritage commercial
The Plough Inn
Heritage commercial venue recorded as a full interior and exterior digital twin at survey-grade accuracy.
Construction
The Quarry
A three-storey mansion captured across the full construction cycle. Multi-stage grade control, council and banking review.
Premium residential
AVANI
A five-bedroom architectural home captured end-to-end. Every finish, fitting, and architectural detail at survey-grade accuracy.
Insurance forensic
Destroyed Property
Full-property 3D record of a damaged residence, produced for insurer and legal review of a disputed claim.
Development
Moreton Bay Luxury
Full schematic walkthrough for design review, stakeholder briefing, and premium pre-sale positioning.
Commercial complex
King Court
A multi-unit commercial development on Brisbane's northside. Multi-warehouse and mixed-use industrial, end-to-end.
Every service on this page is a module in the course.
Services and training aren't two businesses. They're one loop. The commercial work proves the standard. The course teaches it to the operators who'll run the next generation of jobs. If you're an asset owner, you've just read what we deliver. If you're considering PDC as a trainer, you've just read what you'd be able to deliver yourself.
The pipeline you just read is the pipeline the course walks you through.
Field capture. Ground control. PIX4Dmatic processing. The five deliverables. The delivery note. Every step in the six services above is a step the course teaches. Days 1, 2 and 3 for the short form. Days 4 and 5 add the own-data pipeline, the extraction layer, and the commercial discipline that turns a deliverable into a business.
The kit you just saw in action is the kit the field day puts in your hands.
Aircraft, sensors, ground control, processing environment. All of it handled, all of it processed, all of it delivered on the same commercial standard every client on this page received. You don't buy the equipment before the course. The course is where you learn what the equipment is actually for.
The credentials a client's procurement team checks are credentials the course puts in your name.
The CASA certificate that proves the operator is legal. The PIX4Dmatic Certified Operator that proves they know the software. The PDC credential that proves they can produce the work. The full stack is what opens the door to procurement-gated work. The kind of job a working practice on one side can bid for, and a graduate trained to deliver on the other walks straight into.
You've just seen the standard. Now it's your turn.
Two courses. Four credentials across them. Every intake runs inside the same working commercial practice that produced every deliverable on this page. The services are the proof. The course is the path. Whether you're commissioning a capture or taking one on yourself, both start with the same conversation.
Whichever side you're on, let's talk.
Commission a survey-grade capture for your asset, or reserve a place in the next intake. Both start with the same conversation. A few lines is enough. The location, what you need it for, and any deadline you're working to. Same business day reply, every time.
Commission a capture
Tell us about the asset. A real person reads every enquiry and replies within a business day. From the operator who'd actually run your job. Honest assessment of which service fits, what it costs, and what the deliverable would look like.
Book a captureReserve a training spot
Two courses, four credentials across them, every intake inside a working commercial practice. Short form gets you certified. Long form takes you through to commercial delivery. Fortnightly starts, ten seats maximum.
See the two coursesExternal international captures quoted per-job with travel and site logistics itemised separately. See the projects →