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Drone LiDAR & Mapping · West Palm Beach

Survey-grade mapping for Palm Beach County sites

Drone LiDAR, orthomosaic mapping, and 3D documentation across West Palm Beach and the county’s western communities. Georeferenced point clouds, topos, and volumes, delivered in your team’s working file types.

FAA Part 107 CertifiedRTK / PPK ControlSurvey-Grade Output

Farmland turning into rooftops

West of the turnpike, the map is changing fast

Palm Beach County is building west, converting the flat agricultural land out past the turnpike into new communities like Westlake and filling in The Acreage and Loxahatchee. That’s where the mapping work is: raw and recently-cleared tracts that need an accurate survey before a single road is laid, on ground so flat the drainage design comes down to inches.

We capture what that design needs. Ground control plus RTK or PPK holds the data on real coordinates, so the outputs agree with each other and the ground. On the vegetated and canal-cut parcels out west, LiDAR reaches the ground through the brush and cane that a photo map reads as solid cover, which is exactly where the terrain matters most.

Then it arrives in your formats, ready to load into CAD or GIS. From an infill lot in downtown West Palm to a several-hundred-acre tract out west, we scope it to exactly what the design work requires.

Orthomosaic drone map of a Palm Beach County development site
What We Capture

Mapping products for Palm Beach County engineers

Method is picked to suit the deliverable, from a planning map to a survey-grade package.

Drone LiDAR & point clouds

Dense 3D clouds that reach the ground through Florida brush and cane, for topos and civil design.

Orthomosaic mapping

Scaled, geo-referenced site imagery for planning and records.

Topos & drainage

Terrain and surface models with contours, the grade detail flat western tracts live on.

3D models & volumes

Site 3D plus cut, fill, and stockpile volumes from the capture.

Land development & earthwork

Recurring flights that track dirt across a new-community build with numbers, not estimates.

CAD / GIS-ready files

LAS, GeoTIFF, DXF, and contours delivered to drop into your software.

Have a site or an asset that needs documenting?Tell us the asset and the deadline. We’ll scope it and price it.

FAQ

West Palm Beach drone mapping questions

What engineers, surveyors, and developers in Palm Beach County ask us most.

Why does mapping matter on the western Palm Beach County sites?

Because they’re raw, flat, and getting developed fast. Out past the turnpike, a new community starts on agricultural land where a few inches of grade decide the drainage, so the whole design depends on an accurate survey before any road goes in. A measured surface beats an old ag drawing every time.

Does LiDAR help with the brush and cane out west?

Yes. The western parcels run to scrub, brush, and old cane land cut by canals. LiDAR pulses reach the actual ground between the vegetation, so you get real terrain where a photo map would only capture the top of it.

How accurate is the data for civil design?

Survey grade where it matters. We tie the capture to control with RTK or PPK, so the map and the model share true coordinates. If it’s just for planning, we can keep it simpler.

Can you fly sites near PBI?

Yes. Palm Beach International’s Class C airspace covers part of the county, so we clear the authorization before the flight and schedule around the crews on an active site.

What formats do you deliver?

Your working formats: point clouds in LAS or LAZ, orthomosaics as GeoTIFF, terrain and surface models, contours, and DXF for CAD. Tell us the program and we deliver to fit.

Start a project

Scope a Palm Beach County mapping project

Give us the tract, the deliverable, and your platform. We’ll pick the right method, tell you the accuracy, and put a price on it.

(321) 209-4359 · info@leadingedgedrones.com
100 E Pine St, Suite 110 · Orlando, FL 32801
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured

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