UAV & LIDAR Mapping

Ultra-High Resolution Imagery

UAV imagery is ultra-high resolution aerial imagery captured by aircraft, not satellites. Because it is collected much closer to the ground, it provides significantly sharper detail, allowing users to see terrain features, vegetation changes, trails, and habitat edges that are often missed in standard satellite imagery.

Spartan Forge provides access to up to 10 years of this imagery, allowing you to compare conditions over time and find exactly what you're looking for. Much of this imagery is captured leaf-off, revealing ground features that are normally hidden beneath thick canopy.

See the Land Beneath the Trees

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) uses laser pulses to measure distance and create highly accurate 3D models of the ground surface. Because the laser pulses can penetrate vegetation and reach the ground beneath the canopy, LiDAR reveals terrain features that are often hidden in traditional imagery.

For hunters, this means being able to clearly identify subtle terrain changes like benches, ridges, saddles, drainage patterns, and small depressions that influence animal movement and bedding. In heavily wooded areas where satellite imagery shows little more than tree cover, LiDAR exposes the underlying structure of the land, helping hunters better understand travel corridors, access routes, and terrain features that animals use every day.