Mapping & Aerial Survey

Providing you with the facts to make the decisions

Whether you know your woodland like the back of your hand already, or are exploring a newly acquired piece of land, an accurate map is a hugely valuable asset

We use drone imagery and GPS to produce high quality digital mapping to give you the greatest possible insights into your woodland, and the tools to understand it.

Accurate mapping is the foundation for:

Woodland management planning
Grant applications (many require detailed site maps)
Forest design plans
Tree health monitoring
Species composition analysis
Boundary definition and area calculation
Tracking change over time

You can’t manage effectively what you can’t measure and visualise properly.

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What Our Mapping and Aerial Survey Service Covers

Woodland boundary and compartment mapping
Drone-based aerial survey
Tree canopy health assessment
Species composition mapping
Accessing difficult or unsafe terrain remotely via aerial survey
Time-series imagery for monitoring change
Tree species distribution maps
Forest design plan creation
Management plan maps
Grant application mapping
Timber harvesting plans

Data can be presented as high resolution digital maps, GIS mapping data and aerial imagery and reports.

We are appropriately trained, licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority and insured for aerial survey work.

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Common Situations We Help With

We are happy to work with customers across a variety of different needs, including:

Creating baseline maps for new woodland management plans
Preparing detailed site surveys for grant applications (mapping requirements are often mandatory)
Assessing tree health across large or inaccessible areas
Forest design planning – visualising proposed layouts
Monitoring woodland change and development over time
Pre-harvest planning and timber volume assessment
Species composition surveys for conservation projects
Quantifying and planning woodland creation or replanting areas

Why us

Why Choose Us, and How We Work

We offer all our customers a free initial site visit to look at the site you have, and the work you’d like to discuss with us. We will need to understand what mapping and data you need, and how you intend to use it, as that will impact how we work.

Once that has been agreed, we will conduct a site survey, using drones, and/or ground surveys, as appropriate. We process these data streams using specialist digital mapping software to marry the datapoints and images into a cohesive package for you. It will be presented in your preferred format,

At SWWM we offer our state-of-the-art digital mapping and drone technology combined with our forestry expertise. We will integrate our mapping and aerial survey work seamlessly with the other services we offer, to ensure that everything we do for you is well informed, and to the highest quality

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