Practical writing for people who commission this work: what accuracy figures actually mean, when LiDAR is worth the money and when it is not, how airspace works on this coast, and how to specify a deliverable your software will open.
The most quoted number in the industry is the aircraft's RTK positioning spec, not deliverable accuracy. Explaining the difference honestly is both genuinely useful and positions you as the operator who knows the difference. Roughly 1,200 words.
Needs from you: nothing. This one can be written from the spec research already done.
A straight comparison with the canopy argument at its centre, including the case against LiDAR on open ground. Buyers searching for LiDAR are frequently the ones who should be buying photogrammetry, and saying so earns trust.
Needs from you: one real example of each, ideally with the cost difference.
How the YYJ control zone, the Inner Harbour water aerodrome and NAV CANADA authorisation work in practice, and why Basic certification cannot legally cover most Saanich Peninsula ground. Local, specific, and unwritten by anyone.
Needs from you: how long authorisations typically take you, and any instructive story.
A short buyer's guide: coordinate system, vertical datum, contour interval, file format, base surface for volumes. Aimed at the project manager who has been told to commission a survey and has not done it before.
Needs from you: the three requests clients most often get wrong.
Why a pre-clearing LiDAR survey is worth more than the same flight three months later, aimed squarely at Westshore developers and contractors. Short, one clear argument, one diagram.
Needs from you: a project where this happened, or where it did not and cost someone.
A competitor on the Island has been publishing roughly monthly and you have published nothing, which is why the section exists. The commercial return here is not readership — it is that a technical buyer comparing three operators reads one article and stops comparing.
One post a month, each answering a real question, will do more than a redesign. The pages beating you today on the two highest-value search terms are a few hundred words of filler.
Twenty questions on accuracy, verification, formats, cost drivers, turnaround, airspace and certification — with the two things we deliberately do not do stated plainly.
Notes published here are general information and not project-specific advice. Survey deliverables are for information and planning purposes and are not a legal survey.