Contact
Mike McCullough
Manager, Aerial Mapping
& LiDAR
mike.mccullough@westwoodps.com
Main: 888-937-5150
Direct: 913-890-4802

Overview
Westwood’s Aerial Mapping & LiDAR team brings more than twenty years’ experience delivering quality engineering products derived from aerial surveys. Westwood has a national reputation as a preferred surveying and mapping consultant for land and energy development projects.

SADI or LiDAR?

Utilities, municipalities, and consultants use Westwood’s Scale-Accurate Digital Imaging (SADI) and LiDAR solutions for site and infrastructure studies, facility design, right-of-way records, environmental support, and operations and maintenance functions. Our clients have a choice. Every project is unique and there are distinct advantages to each technology. We help our clients to assess the options to ensure the best solution to meet their needs.

SADI
Aerial photo-based, ortho-corrected imagery and feature-coded digital terrain model data that is geo-referenced, highly-accurate, and scalable.

Best Use
When a wide corridor of data is required for routing of new lines, to include potential re-routes. Provides the ability to deliver imagery and/or terrain data up to two miles wide in one flight pass; which allows T&D designers the ability to assess multiple corridor options, study local access roads and structures, and adjust routes without added flights.

LiDAR
High-density, geo-referenced points for fast acquisition and processing of high-accuracy data using the latest, state-of-the-art technologies.

Best Use
When heavy detail of existing conditions is needed for upgrading existing lines or identifying clearance issues. Provides an in-depth look at existing features, which allows for infringement identification and vegetation management. Preferred in areas containing dense vegetation or above-ground obstructions.

We provide the data to support:

• Corridor and access selection, route alternatives, and design
• Public presentations
• Permitting
• Thermal uprating studies
• Substation and infrastructure analysis
• Structural and load analysis
• As-built records
• Encroachment identification
• Vegetation management
• Profile and catenary data in TLCAD & PLS-CADD
• Digital Evaluation Models (DEMs)
• Digital Terrain Models (DTMs)
• Contour maps
• Point clouds
• Volumetrics