Reality capture · Coachella Valley, working nationwide
Most buildings no longer match their drawings.
We document buildings, sites and venues with terrestrial and aerial LiDAR, photogrammetry and 360 capture, then turn the result into the drawings and models your project team actually works from.
What we do
Design decisions get made against drawings that are decades old, incomplete, or were never right. We replace the guesswork with a measured record of the building and the site as they stand today.
Every deliverable comes out of the same captured dataset: floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, site plans, point clouds and 3D models. Capture once, and the information carries through due diligence, design, construction and the next renovation.
Services
Scoped around the deliverable you need rather than a fixed package. Square footage informs the proposal; complexity, outputs, access, travel and turnaround determine the fee.
01 — Capture
A complete spatial record for teams that need verified source data without drawing production.
For owners, architects, engineers, contractors and VDC teams working the data themselves.
02 — Documentation
LiDAR-based existing conditions translated into coordinated CAD or Revit drawings.
Licensed-architect support available. MEP design not included.
03 — Complete
Capture and architect-led drawing production delivered as one coordinated package.
For complex renovations and multi-discipline teams needing both the source data and the drawings.
From capture to drawing
The point cloud is the measured record of the visit. The model is drawn from it in-house: the cloud is the main reference, not the only one. One is captured; the other is produced.
How you receive it
Reality capture usually arrives as a hard drive or a download link nobody can open. Every DSM project is delivered on its own page instead: the data to look at, and the files to download, in the same place.
The point cloud opens right in the page. No software to install, no plugin, no account, no viewer subscription that expires, and it works on a phone. Send the link to the whole project team, including the people who would never install ReCap.
A scan of a whole venue is enormous. Every surface is recorded as millions of individual measurements, room by room, until the building exists as data.
So we organise it by location and keep it on our server. When you open the page, your browser asks for only the part of the building you are actually looking at, in only as much detail as you could see from where you are standing. Move, and the next piece arrives.
It works the way a map does on your phone. You are never downloading the world, only the few streets in front of you.
What you move through in the browser is a preview. The full-resolution data stays the deliverable, and it downloads from the same page.
Under the preview sits the actual deliverable list (ReCap, DWG, PDF, orthophotos, E57) as direct downloads with no sign-in wall. 3D models and 360 tours share the same page, on tabs beside the point cloud.
Live demo
The real client page for the Cow Palace, the 1941 arena in Daly City, opening the way it does for their project team. Building and campus held as one record, a 3D model and a 360 virtual tour on the tabs beside it, and six files underneath including a 25 GB point cloud and a 3.5 GB orthophoto. Nothing to install.
Drag to orbit · scroll to zoom · W A S D to walk through it
Who we work with
Most renovations start with drawings that are decades old, if they exist at all. You get the building as it actually stands today: real ceiling heights, real wall positions, real floor levels, so the design fits the first time.
Scan before the walls close up and you have a record of every pipe, duct and conduit exactly where it ended up. Point clouds come in the standard formats (E57, RCP, LAS, PTS), so they drop straight into Revit and whatever else your team runs.
Stages, seating, catwalks, rigging points and load-in paths measured once. Know whether the set fits through the door and where lights and speakers can hang before the trucks arrive.
Every contractor who bids work on your building measures it again first. Give them all one verified set of drawings and the bids come back faster, cleaner, and comparable to each other.
Capture platform
Owned, operated and validated in the field. Each platform is selected around the project, the access conditions and the deliverable, not around what happens to be in the vehicle.
Aerial and terrestrial data only agree with each other if something ties them together. We set and check control on site so the interior scan, the facade and the surrounding ground land in one consistent project reference, rather than three datasets that nearly line up.
That reference is a local datum we set and label. It is not tied to a certified county datum, and it is not a substitute for one.
150m range configuration with high-speed capture, automatic calibration, self-levelling and in-field registration. Interiors, facades, vertical circulation, roof structures.
Compact RTK mapping aircraft with a 20 MP 4/3 camera, mechanical shutter and 0.5-second image intervals. Roofs, facades, parcels, campuses and site context.
Long-endurance enterprise aircraft carrying multi-return LiDAR, RGB imaging and a precision IMU. Terrain, grade changes, broad properties, difficult access.
Multi-band GNSS base and rover receivers for ground control and site checks; the RS3 adds tilt compensation for points you cannot stand a pole on.
Our drawings and data are existing-condition documentation, produced for planning, design reference and contractor coordination. Site plans are planimetric documents derived from captured data and are referenced to a local datum that we set and label, not to a certified county datum.
They are not certified surveys and may not be used for legal descriptions, boundary determination, easements or construction staking. Drone Scope Mapping is not a licensed land surveyor or architect. All dimensions and elevations are approximate; field verification is required prior to construction.
Boundary surveying, construction staking, engineering certification, MEP, structural and civil engineering, and professional-stamp services are excluded unless separately provided under an appropriate written scope by qualified professionals.
Questions
Every project is different. Square footage informs the proposal; building complexity, the deliverables you need, access and travel, and turnaround determine the fee. After a short conversation we send a written scope and a fixed price, no hourly surprises.
Yes. All flights are performed by FAA Part 107–certified remote pilots, under current airspace authorisations and safety regulations. Airspace approval is handled as part of project planning, before mobilisation.
Nope, but we think they're incredible. Different industry entirely: we fly for measurement, not entertainment.
They don't work like that. Drones need GPS and open space, and interiors have neither. Inside, a tripod-mounted laser scanner is the better tool anyway. Outside we use both: roof overhangs and other obstacles shade parts of a building from the air, so scanning from the ground as well is what ensures the coverage.
No, and we do not present our work as survey products. We are a reality-capture and existing-conditions documentation company. We do not determine property boundaries, prepare legal descriptions, certify elevations to a county datum, or provide construction staking. Where a project needs certified or stamped survey products, those are engaged separately from qualified licensed professionals.
Depending on scope: a registered point cloud, a 360 virtual tour, tagged site photography, and drawings or models in DWG, PDF, Revit, SketchUp, Vectorworks or Rhino. Large datasets are delivered through a hosted viewer link your whole project team can open in a browser, with the source files available to download.
Yes. We are based in the Coachella Valley and work throughout California and nationwide. Travel and mobilisation are quoted up front and appear as their own line in the proposal.
Yes, and often do. Much of our venue work happens around live operations, in dark rooms, overnight or between events, and scanning is passive and quiet. We would still rather have the space empty: people and moving equipment block whatever sits behind them, so an occupied room needs more setups and leaves more gaps. A quiet window means a better record and a shorter visit.
Start a project
Send the address, roughly what you need out of it, and when you need it. We will come back with a written scope and a price, usually within two business days.