Precise site data, captured from the air.
Daydream uses FAA-certified drone flights, RTK positioning, and LiDAR-grade processing to capture your property in exact, real-world coordinates. It is the accurate foundation every good design and every tight stone cut depends on.
A design is only as accurate as the site data under it.
Most outdoor projects start from a rough sketch and a tape measure. That is where the errors begin: a grade read wrong, a tree in the wrong place, a slope nobody measured. Those small inaccuracies compound into change orders, drainage problems, and stone that does not fit.
We start from measured reality instead. A drone flight with RTK positioning captures your entire property in centimeter-level, real-world coordinates, producing a dense, accurate model of the ground, structures, trees, and grade. Every design decision after that stands on real data, not a guess. For cut-to-size stone especially, that precision is the difference between pieces that drop into place and pieces that have to be fought.
A complete, measured picture of your site.
One flight produces a rich dataset that feeds the entire design process, from base map to final fabrication.
High-Resolution Orthomosaic
A crisp, measurable aerial map of the whole property, stitched from hundreds of overlapping images and corrected to real-world scale.
Topography & Contours
Accurate elevation and contour data across the site, so grade, slope, and drainage are understood before design begins.
3D Point Cloud & Mesh
A dense point cloud and 3D model of the ground, structures, and features, the base layer for design and fabrication.
Existing Conditions
Precise positions of structures, hardscape, trees, and utilities as they actually sit, not as a plan assumes.
Professional-grade capture, ground-truthed and processed.
This is not a hobby drone and a phone app. It is a survey-grade workflow built for accuracy you can design and fabricate from.
RTK Aerial Capture
A DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise with RTK flies a planned grid, capturing overlapping imagery tagged with centimeter-level positions.
Ground Control
Emlid RS3 and RS4 GNSS receivers set and check ground control points, tying the whole model to true coordinates.
Photogrammetry Processing
Imagery is processed in Pix4D and OpenDroneMap into orthomosaics, elevation models, point clouds, and 3D meshes.
Design-Ready Base Map
The processed data becomes the accurate base map every plan, visualization, and stone cut is built from.
For our own builds, and for other professionals.
We capture sites for our own design-build projects, and we provide site capture as a standalone service to builders, landscape architects, and design professionals who need accurate, real-world site data to work from. You get the processed deliverables in the formats your workflow uses, without buying the equipment or the certification to fly it.
Flown by an FAA Part 107 certified remote pilot.
Commercial drone flight requires FAA Part 107 certification. Daydream founder Jesse House holds it, so every flight is legal, insured, and done right. View all credentials
Drone and LiDAR site capture, answered.
How accurate is drone site capture?
Is this the same as a licensed land survey?
What do I actually receive?
Can you capture a site you are not building?
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Start your project from real data.
Whether it is your build or a project you are documenting, accurate site capture is where it should begin. Tell us about the property and we will scope the flight.
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