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Aerial and HD Street-View Imagery: Complementary Foundations for Smarter Field Operations

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The essential guide to how a hybrid approach unites top-down context and ground-level detail—creating a more complete foundation for operational intelligence.

Even the best aerial data can’t capture what’s happening on the ground—where real conditions, compliance, and change take place.

This white paper reveals why organizations across government, utilities, and infrastructure are adopting a hybrid approach—combining wide-area aerial imagery with HD 360° street-level detail enhanced by dual LiDAR and AI-powered feature extraction.

Together, these perspectives deliver a complete, measurable view of the built environment—from the bird’s-eye to the curb.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Pair aerial coverage with ground-truth clarity to achieve full situational awareness and richer decision-making.
  • Reduce costly and risky field visits leveraging HD street-level imagery that captures assets and conditions in exacting detail.
  • Advance your GIS, asset management, and digital twin initiatives with data you can trust—from every angle, at every scale.
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Testimonials

We asked NCTech to collect and LiDAR for us across nine US cities at very short notice. We also ordered data from San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA on separate occasions. On each occasion, they delivered the data on time and we were impressed by the data quality and how quickly they mobilized their team

Big Tech

This is something the city has always wanted to do!

City CTO

This is exactly what we are looking for!

County Appraiser

You all are going to make a lot of noise in the market!

County Geospatial Business Analyst

I watched the video, and this is something that looks like it would be really cool to have a webinar on in the future.

County Planning Analyst

NCTech successfully enhances the brilliance of 360 degree virtualization. Using Sony's cutting edge image sensor technology which enables people to immerse themselves in the environment around them.

John Conry, Sales Manager

Sony

Collecting better data today means better solutions in the future. In the past, organisations have performed asset management manually and Infrequently. A car-mounted solution like iSTAR Pulsar makes this much faster and easier. And now lower cost than ever before.

Jason Clark, Director

Icon Spatial

iSTAR is very impressive it’s size, ease of use, portability and image quality make it a worthy companion for our FARO Focus Laser Scanners.

Andrew Maltby, MRICS Director

Maltby Surveys

Using the iSTAR 360 imaging system has been critical
iSTAR has provided foresight to data management considerations over the complete lifecycle of this project. Using such an efficient and consistent method of image documentation, means that we are sure to deliver within both an accurate and competitive cost-structure for our customer.

Chris El-Araj, Principal

Underhill Geomatics Ltd

NCTech is a truly pioneering company they continue to set the bar in spatial reconstruction by blending futuristic tech with accessible design and price points.

Charles Armstrong, Street View Product Manager

Google

iSTAR Pulsar is a remarkable feat — a serious product for valuable, machine learning-conducive datasets.

Program Manager

Big Tech

We licensed NCTech's high resolution street-level imagery from several cities, including Los Angeles and New York. They always delivered high quality data on time, achieved comprehensive coverage and provided excellent technical support. The engineering team continues to regard the quality of their data highly as their imagery is the most consistent and hassle-free offering on the market. I would have no hesitation in recommending them.

Large Technology Customer (Augmented Reality)

ordered mobile mapping data from NCTech to augment a digitized utility inventory tool we are building for a US City. The quality of imagery has been excellent and this will be useful for road pavement condition analysis and planning activities. We are also very impressed by the timeframe to capture such high quality data over traditional manual collection methodologies.

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Case Studies

NCTech Founder Dr. Neil Tocher

Creating an affordable vehicle-mounted inspection solution for local governments

  • Richard Gauchwin
  • Business Area Manager
  • KOREC
“Historically these types of solutions have been very expensive, but the KlearView360° integration with the iSTAR Pulsar+ means that we can put vehicle mounted inspection into the hands of local authorities, highways engineers and consultants, utilities and many more in an affordable and effective way.”
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Utility Pole Attachment Audit & Revenue Optimization

  • Large Electric Distribution Utility
“High-definition street-level imagery is the foundation upon which Utilities can plan and conduct detailed analyses to formulate strategies and optimizations.”
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NCTech Founder Dr. Neil Tocher

Law enforcement – Warwickshire Police

  • Colin Humphreys
  • Forensic collision investigator
  • Warwickshire Police
“To us iSTAR was a revelation! It has become one of the first bits of kit that comes out of the car and is used by every member of the team”
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NCTech Founder Dr. Neil Tocher

iSTAR camera provides rapid HDR imaging for Z+F 5010X 3D point cloud colourisation

  • Jenni Copple and Araceli Perez
  • LFM
LFM Software and iSTAR’s ability to efficiently capture and combine HDR colour significantly improves 3D visualisation and time savings.
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Maltby Surveys

3D Documentation Alexandra Palace / Worthing Pier

  • Andrew. K. Maltby MRICS
  • Chartered Land Surveyor
  • Maltby Surveys
“iSTAR was very impressive. It’s size, ease of use, portability and image quality make it a worthy companion for our FARO Focus Laser Scanners.”
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RRS Discovery / Gibraltar cave

  • Ben Bennet
  • CTO
  • Digital Surveys
“We have three different scanners each of which is fitted with a bracket on to which we mount the iSTAR and it works well with all of them.”
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