Photo Science owns and operates eight FAA-certified aircraft to provide aerial photo missions. Each aircraft is capable of supporting virtually any type of traditional and digital aerial photogrammetric mission and is equipped with airborne Global Positioning Systems (GPS) receivers, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), forward-motion compensation (FMC), and gyro-stabilized camera mounts. Additionally, our flight crews utilize flight management system software to not only plan aerial photo missions, but use this information to feed the aircraft’s avionics systems to help ensure that the aircraft are in the appropriate position to accurately capture each individual exposure.

In support of traditional aerial photo missions, Photo Science offers seven analog photogrammetric cameras, including high-performance Zeiss RMK TOP instruments. To ensure that our aerial camera systems are providing accurate and reliable information to support photogrammetric survey and topographic mapping, all of Photo Science’s cameras are tested and calibrated every three years by the U.S. Geological Survey Optical Science Laboratory.

The combination of highly capable aircraft, state-of-the-art avionics, precision measurement instruments and certified photogrammetric cameras ensures that we can provide the highest quality aerial photography to support our customer’s exacting aerial photography needs.