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2D aerial mapping
High-overlap drone imagery stitched into a detailed orthomosaic of your property, paddock or site.
- Property overview maps
- Farm and block documentation
- Visual site records
Drone mapping · Christchurch & Canterbury
See the whole property.
Clear aerial maps, 3D property models and useful imagery for landowners, farms, agents and small projects.
2D mapping
Photogrammetry
Aerial photo + video
10.94 hamapped area
3.2 cm/pxorthomosaic resolution
Mapping example: Scruttons Road Farm · DJI Mini 3 + WebODM
Useful outputs. Straightforward jobs. No giant consultancy attached.
Services
A small, focused aerial toolkit.
Plotbird is built for jobs where a clear view from above is genuinely useful, without turning every project into a full surveying exercise.
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3D property models
Photogrammetry captures that turn a real property or structure into a navigable 3D model.
- Buildings and sites
- Existing-condition records
- Shareable visual models
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Rural imagery
Clean aerial photography for farms, lifestyle blocks and landowners who want to show or document the whole property.
- Farm overviews
- Buildings and assets
- Seasonal or progress imagery
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Property photo + video
Simple, polished aerial stills and short video clips for listings, websites and property marketing.
- Real estate aerials
- Short video sequences
- Web and social-ready files
Mapping examples
Real flights. Real outputs.
These are existing portfolio projects around Christchurch, using the same mapping workflow Plotbird is built around: planned image capture, photogrammetry processing and useful mapped outputs.
Scruttons Road Farm
10.94 hectares turned into a practical farm map.
A broad-coverage flight was processed into a connected orthomosaic, then paddock boundaries were digitised to create a readable property-wide planning layer.
189photos captured
10.94 haarea mapped
3.2 cm/pxoutput resolution
High-detail mapping
Scruttons Road
2.73 ha · 174 images · 1.1 cm/px
Shoreline mapping
Estuary shoreline
210 images · 1.1 cm/px · 100 m AGL
Urban mapping
Jellicoe Street
165 images · 0.9 cm/px · 80 m AGL
Portfolio examples, not represented as licensed cadastral or engineering survey work.
What you get
Something you can actually use afterwards.
The point isn’t the drone flight. It’s the map, model, photo set or footage you needed from it.
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Clear deliverables
Files supplied in useful formats, with the job scoped before flying.
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Small-job friendly
Good fit for individual properties and practical one-off projects.
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Local & straightforward
Based in Christchurch and focused on Canterbury work.
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No survey theatre
If you need a licensed cadastral or engineering survey, Plotbird will say so rather than pretend a drone map is one.
About Plotbird
Small by design.
Plotbird is a Christchurch-based aerial mapping and imagery service for property-sized jobs. The focus is simple: useful outputs, sensible scope, and work that doesn’t need an enterprise sales call attached to it.
That might mean mapping a lifestyle block, building a 3D model of a property, documenting a farm from above, or capturing clean aerial media for a listing.
Common questions
What does a small drone mapping job actually involve?
Plotbird is aimed at practical property-sized work. The exact flight and output depend on the site, airspace, weather and what you need to do with the result.
What is drone mapping?
Drone mapping uses a planned set of overlapping aerial photographs to build a detailed, top-down orthomosaic of a property or site. It is useful when one ordinary aerial photo does not provide enough detail or consistency.
Can you create a 3D model of a property?
Yes. Photogrammetry can turn overlapping images into a 3D representation of buildings, terrain or a defined site. The suitability and level of detail depend on the property and the intended use.
Do drone maps replace a licensed survey?
No. Plotbird's mapping is for visual documentation, planning context and imagery. If you need cadastral boundaries, legal measurements or engineering survey accuracy, you need the appropriate licensed professional.
Where does Plotbird work?
Plotbird is based in Christchurch and focuses on Christchurch and Canterbury. Every job is checked for practical access, airspace requirements, weather and the permissions needed for the proposed flight.
Start with the site
Got a property in mind?
Send the location, roughly what you want captured, and what you need the final output for. That’s usually enough to work out whether Plotbird is a fit.