Industry · Corridor & vegetation

Utilities

Large-scale corridor mapping for vegetation management, compliance, and reliability.

Utilities point-cloud scan
The problem

What’s at stake.

Power companies spend roughly $7 billion a year on vegetation management yet still face outages. Meeting code means mapping hundreds or thousands of miles of right-of-way at 5–10 cm accuracy — historically only possible from slow, low-flying platforms.

What’s required

What the data has to do.

250+ miles of ROW at 5–10 cm vertical accuracy and 30–100+ points per square meter — without the cost of low, slow flying.

$7B
Annual U.S. vegetation management
250+ mi
ROW per project
5–10 cm
Vertical accuracy
100+ ppsm
Point density
How 3DEO helps

From scoping to answers.

Corridor-mode scanning

Engineered scanning follows winding ROWs and captures bypass substations without the aircraft constantly changing course.

Fly high, fly fast, see wide

Sequoia gathers 100+ ppsm from 18,000 ft at 350–450 kts, imaging a multi-km-wide strip per line.

Find the risks

Densities high enough to identify dead trees and clearance violations along the entire network.

Who flies & analyzes it

Tenax Aerospace flies the collection on a modified Gulfstream G-IV, covering thousands of miles of ROW in days or hours. Aethon — a leader in aerial lidar for utility vegetation and engineering — analyzes the data to verify asset location, assess clearances, and eliminate blind spots.

Recommended system

Sequoia is built for this.

Long-standoff, wide-area collection at up to 900 km² per hour from the flight levels.

Utilities collection
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