How Drone Mapping Works (In Plain English)

You don't need to know anything technical to use your maps. Here is the whole idea.

The short version

A drone flies a planned pattern over your property, taking hundreds of overlapping photos. Software matches them and rebuilds your property as measurable data.

You open it in your web browser through a private link, with nothing to install.

From flight to your screen

1. We plan the flight for your site's size and shape, and get any FAA airspace authorization (LAANC).
2. The drone flies a grid, plus angled passes for 3D. A camera visit covers 40+ acres, and laser scanning several hundred acres a day.
3. We process the imagery into one reconstruction, placed where your site really is. That is what makes it measurable.
4. We check every output before it goes live.
5. You explore it in your browser, with each result as a tab.

The kinds of results you get

You pick only the ones you need:

• 2D Aerial Map (orthomosaic) — a flat top-down map at about 1–3 cm per pixel. Every point sits in its true position, so you can measure distances and areas on it.
• Photoreal 3D Model (digital twin) — a textured 3D model you can spin, tilt and fly around.
• Point cloud / LiDAR scan — millions of measured 3D points that see the bare ground under trees, for terrain, drainage and volumes.
• Elevation & terrain — a surface model with contour lines for slope, drainage and grading.
• Flyover video — an edited aerial pass for marketing and listings.

Why it beats a satellite image

• It's measurable. Distances, areas and volumes are accurate to 2–5 cm horizontally and 5–10 cm vertically.
• It's current and sharp. Satellite imagery can be years old, at about 50 cm per pixel. Your flight is from this week, at 1–3 cm per pixel.
• It's shareable. Anyone you send the private link to opens it in a browser.

Tip: The Live Demo in the site's menu shows a real property's maps and 3D.

What it is not

These are measurable maps for planning and documenting. Every deliverable carries this line:

This data is not a legal survey. Embry Solutions LLC does not perform land surveys. For boundary, subdivision, or title surveys, please consult a licensed Texas surveyor.

Getting started

The Start Your Project wizard asks a few plain questions and recommends a package. We then send a tailored quote and schedule your flight. See Start Your Project and Accuracy Expectations.