Time Saving
Faster access to real-time analytics with collection of data and processing in 24-48 hours.
TRANSFORM YOUR SITE DATA INTO POWERFUL INSIGHTS
As an industry leader in measuring and scanning landfills, we are experts in the field. Our team has the ability to provide LiDAR and drone aerial data mapping services to waste facilities. Our experience using multiple types of equipment for data collection allows us to choose which one is right for your operation or a combination of both in order to provide the best solution for your unique needs.
With our Data Analysis and Reporting Platform, we can create 3D models of your site to provide detail and precision when inspecting your site to better understand and visualize existing site conditions, sequencing plans, and any other areas of concern that may exist at your landfill. We can survey your entire site and create detailed real-time 2D topographic maps and digital elevation models to help you better envision your site’s existing conditions.
Our data experts can interpret the high-quality data we gather and provide an operational-based perspective to help you monitor critical operational factors, and arm you with the information you need to make important decisions about capital expenditures and operations.
Landfill Operational Calculations
Firmatek delivers confidence in your data so that you can make important business decisions about capital expenditures and operations while simultaneously maintaining regulatory compliance. In addition to fill volumes and airspace management, our services include isopach map creation, overfill monitoring, and final cap modeling over topographic surveys to name a few. Our engineering staff are experts at integrating data from various sources into a common format that can be utilized by 3rd party consultants, surveyors, and designers.
If you ever have any questions about your results you will work with real people who speak your language guiding you every step of the way to develop best practices for managing your site. We handle all of the data processing, and analysis for you. Over the years, Firmatek has delivered quality, accuracy, and supreme confidence in the data to hundreds of landfill site owners and operators.
Some of the calculations we can provide are:
- Fill Volumes: We calculate the volume of material placed between scans
- Operational Density: Landfills that regularly measure their densities tend to increase them over time.
- Constructed Remaining Airspace: We can drape your final cap over our topographic survey
Landfill Mapping Services
Firmatek puts powerful data in your hands that helps you monitor critical factors
Scalable Solution
- Sizes range from 4 acre active fill updates to 400+ acre full landfill scans
- Fit niche between ground GPS surveys and aerial surveys
- Not affected by cloud cover, light rain or poor lighting
Hazardous Sites
- No contact with dangerous materials – Lasers shoot 400 to 1,200 feet away
- No Tyvek suits – Our processes avoid contact with hazardous materials
- No site walking – Avoids contact between survey crew and heavy equipment
Other Services
- Monitoring in preparation for closing
- Overfill Monitoring
- Isopach Map Creation
- Stockpile volumetrics
Aerial Data in Landfill Mapping
Drones mapping technology can being used at waste facilities to:
- Improve the quality of fill sequence planning
- Conduct time-motion studies on machine productivity
- Allow for in-depth analysis of traffic patterns, cell construction, litter control
- Measure stockpile or compost windrow volumes to manage inventory
Benefits of Aerial Data
Our solution is designed to increase operational efficiency while minimization the costly expenses of traditional surveying and inventory tracking methods
Operating Efficiency
Frequent flyovers for analysis of stockpiles and inventory ensure all records of assets are consistent.
Safety Monitoring
Improved safety on sites by monitoring traffic, road conditions and ensuring areas are clear before a blast and post-blast.
Long Term Recording
Utilize the Firmatek Cloud to track historical site data over time for accurate site planning and financial analysis.
Asset Tracking
Aerial imagery can keep track of their large, expensive equipment and other assets in order to ensure accountability.
Streamlined Audits
Readily available, independent third-party inspections with audit history of all material inventories.
Deliverables
Our data sets include Orthomosaic Imagery, Digital Elevation Models and Contours, LAS Point Clouds, Stockpile Volumetrics, and Cut/Fill Calculations
Ortho Imagery
An orthophoto, orthomosaic or orthoimage is an aerial photograph geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform. Unlike an uncorrected aerial photograph, an orthophoto can be used to measure true distances because it is an accurate representation of the Earth’s surface, having been adjusted for topographic relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt.
LAS Point Cloud
A point cloud is a set of data points in a coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points are usually defined by X, Y, and Z coordinates, and often are intended to represent the external surface of an object. LiDAR scanners and Drones gather point measurements from real-world objects or photos for a point cloud that can then be translated to a 3D mesh or CAD model.
Stockpile Volume
Generate 3D models and accurate volumes to reconcile materials for indoor and outdoor stockpiles. Our LiDAR laser scanning and Aerial Data reporting help you survey stockpiles safely, accurately and efficiently to meet reporting and contractor deadlines.
Cut/Fill Volume Calculations
We reduce the manual work needed to perform a cut-and-fill. Once LiDAR or Drone Aerial Data is collected, our DARP platforms enables cloud processing and and export into native Autodesk file formats like an RCS, a point cloud file that can be used in AutoCAD.
Topographic CAD
Our Data Analysis and Reporting platforms uses LiDAR and Drone Aerial Data to provide all data points necessary to create fast and reliable terrain models, contours and volume calculations.
