High-resolution drone imagery and photogrammetry terrain modelling for farm planning, waterway mapping, compliance — or just a damn fine map on your wall.
We fly your farm and turn the imagery into real maps — orthomosaics, elevation models, contours and waterway maps for farm plans, compliance and analysis. Or just a damn fine map on your wall. High speed, high accuracy, high resolution, and most farms flown in a day.
Because the terrain models come off our own flight — not coarse national data interpolated down — the slope and contour detail is genuinely at farm scale. And while we’re up there, we can grab the aerial photography and video for your wall or your website too.
Curious about the kit? We’ve written up the drone behind our maps — the DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise RTK, and the DJI Matrice 400 we’ve got our eye on for LiDAR and thermal work.
Farmers face real pressure meeting council and assurance requirements while keeping the farm running. We help you navigate freshwater, NZFAP+ and land-management challenges with practical mapping and planning.
The aerials in regional maps can be years old and shot at small scale — fences move, tracks change, and you end up planning off a picture that's no longer true.
Slope, gully and contour detail matters most on steep country — and that's exactly where coarse national elevation data falls down. You need a model flown at your farm.
Freshwater plans and farm assurance need your rivers, drains and wetlands mapped accurately. Guessing off old imagery doesn't cut it with an auditor.
Your farm as a wipe-clean whiteboard — plan grazing, spray and mating straight on the map, wipe it off and go again next round.
Tear-off paper pads where every sheet is your farm's paddock map — scribble the plan, hand it over, tear off a fresh one next time.
Your farm's hazards, no-go zones and assembly points on one printed board — the map you point contractors and visitors at before they head out.
Your farm's actual hills and gullies, 3D-printed solid from real LiDAR terrain data — a farm you can hold, coming soon.
Everything you need for farm-scale mapping, certified farm plans, and regulatory compliance across New Zealand.
ORTHOMOSAIC MAPPING
We fly your whole farm and stitch the photos into one sharp, georeferenced orthomosaic — current, accurate, and far higher resolution than anything off a regional map.
PHOTOGRAMMETRY
From the same flight we build a 3D terrain model and elevation surface using photogrammetry — real slope and contour detail derived at your farm, not interpolated from coarse national data.
RIVER & WETLAND MAPPING
We map your rivers, drains and wetlands off current high-resolution imagery — the spatial detail your Freshwater Farm Plan and farm assurance audit actually need.
A structured, field-verified process that delivers accurate farm-scale maps and audit-ready plans with minimal disruption to your farming operation.
We talk through what you need the map for — planning, compliance or the wall — then plan the flight to capture it in one go.
We fly the farm on site, most in a single day, with no disruption to stock or work.
We run the imagery through photogrammetry software to build the orthomosaic, elevation models and contours.
You get the finished maps and data in the format you want — ready for your farm plan, your auditor, or a print on the wall.
Practical reading on drone mapping — written for farmers, not consultants
Traced paddocks over one aerial and the fences sit a metre or two off on another? It's the photo underneath, not your drawing — how NZ farm imagery works.
A drone photo measures the grass; LiDAR measures the ground beneath it. On NZ hill country that decides whether your slope, water and LUC class are right.
The DJI Matrice 400 is the step-up drone on our radar — one airframe carrying LiDAR, thermal and multispectral. The payloads that matter on NZ farms.
Getting a fence line right used to mean a surveyor and a wait. We plan it on a map, then a drone marks every post to within 20 cm — ready for the fencer.
The practical reasons an NZ farmer gets their place flown: a current map now, accurate paddock areas, real terrain and compliance off the same flight.
Behind every Maplands orthomosaic is one compact aircraft — the DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise with RTK. Why it makes honest, centimetre-accurate NZ farm maps.
Current, high-resolution drone imagery and photogrammetry terrain models. Flown at your farm, fast and accurate, anywhere in New Zealand.
We fly professional-grade drone platforms and process the imagery with proper photogrammetry software, so the maps stand up to use — and to an audit.
