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Discover the Best Aerial Imaging Companies 2025

This is a thorough, global list of top aerial data-collection firms that use manned aircraft for surveying and mapping. These companies provide high-resolution geospatial data at regional, national, and continental scales and specialize in cutting-edge services like photogrammetry, oblique and vertical photography, and airborne LiDAR acquisition. The list is arranged geographically to make it clear—global, regional, and country-specific providers—and features businesses that specifically use fixed-wing aircraft fitted with cutting-edge sensors and cameras. These companies provide dependable and scalable solutions where drone-based capture is inadequate, serving sectors ranging from agricultural, forestry, and environmental monitoring to urban planning, infrastructure development, and catastrophe management.


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Global imagery programs / multi-region


  • Large-area oblique + nadir aerial data collected by airplanes in several nations is known as the Vexcel Data Program (VDP).


  • The HxGN Content Program (Hexagon) uses hired aircraft equipped with Leica sensors to gather elevation and orthophotography data at the continental scale.


  • Active in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Nearmap provides very high-resolution aerial images (nadir/oblique) taken by its own survey planes.


  • EagleView (Pictometry): oblique and ortho imaging programs operated by aircraft with specialized equipment.


North America


  • Surdex is a well-established US fixed-wing aerial mapping company (orthos, LiDAR).


  • With nationwide coverage in the US, Keystone Aerial Surveys owns and runs a fleet of survey aircraft.


  • Sanborn: LiDAR and imagery collected by piloted aircraft around the United States.


  • Large-scale ortho/LiDAR acquisitions using fixed-wing aircraft are known as NV5 Geospatial (previously Quantum Spatial).


  • Kucera International is a US company that offers aerial photography and LiDAR services using its own fleet of multi-aircraft.


  • Cooper Aerial Surveys uses its own aircraft and specializes in photogrammetry and LiDAR.


  • With a specialized fleet of aircraft, Aerial Services, Inc. (ASI) provides US imagery and LiDAR acquisition.


Europe


  • LiDAR and national aerial photos are gathered by aircraft for Bluesky International (UK/Ireland).


  • Getmapping (UK) is a fixed-wing aerial surveying firm that uses orthophotography and LiDAR.


  • A specialist in aerial surveying and photogrammetry is Aerodata International Surveys (Belgium).


  • LiDAR and FUGRO-Airborne Mapping are two examples of more general geospatial services.


Asia–Pacific


  • Australia's Aerometrex provides LiDAR and photogrammetry from aircraft throughout AU/NZ and beyond.


  • AAM (Woolpert) (Australia/Asia): established fixed-wing aerial survey operations (LiDAR, orthos).


  • PASCO (Japan) is a prominent aerial surveying firm that uses airplanes for airborne LiDAR and oblique/nadir photography.


  • High-resolution aerial photography captured by cameras placed on aircraft is known as Kokusai Kogyo (KKC) in Japan.


  • Airborne LiDAR/imagery packages (fixed-wing and helicopter) are offered by Genesys International (India).


  • A modified Cessna Grand Caravan is used by IIC Technologies (India) for LiDAR and aerial photography.


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