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Aerial-Ground FusionAerial-Ground Fusion · 3DGS

Aerial-Ground Fusion 3DGS — Drone + Ground, One Model

Drone aerial capture (DJI M4E) fused with ground SLAM LiDAR (XGRIDS L2 Pro) into a single, seamless photoreal 3DGS — the overhead context and the ground-level detail that no single vantage can see, reconstructed into one model you can explore in any browser.

1 modelDrone + ground, fully fused
Aerial-Ground Fusion 3DGS — Drone + Ground, One Model
The Challenge

A drone sees extent, layout and rooftops — but not under canopy, eaves or façades. A ground scan sees the fine detail — but not the full extent or the roofline. Each vantage alone leaves blind spots.

Registering two very different datasets — aerial and ground — into one clean, gap-free model is the hard part most reality-capture workflows simply can’t do.

Our Approach

How We Delivered It

01

Aerial pass

A DJI M4E drone captured the site from above — extent, layout and rooftops.

02

Ground pass

An XGRIDS L2 Pro walked the site at ground level — façades, under-canopy and fine detail.

03

Fusion

The aerial and ground datasets were registered and fused into a single, gap-free reconstruction.

04

3DGS reconstruction

LCC CyberColor produced one seamless, photoreal 3D Gaussian Splat — explorable in any browser.

The Output

See the Result

Full screen
Cricket field — XGRIDS L2 Pro (ground) + DJI M4E (aerial), fused into one 3DGS. Click to explore it live.
One seamless model — aerial context and ground detail fused (Mooloolaba seawall)
One seamless model — aerial context and ground detail fused (Mooloolaba seawall)
Photoreal 3DGS, explorable in any browser
Photoreal 3DGS, explorable in any browser
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The Result
✓

Full coverage — overhead context and ground-level detail in a single model, with no blind spots.

✓

A photoreal 3DGS any stakeholder can open and explore in a browser — no software to install.

Deliverables
  • →Fused point cloud (LAS / E57)
  • →Photoreal 3DGS model (.lcc / web)
  • →Aerial + ground coverage in one dataset
Technology Used
DJI M4E — aerialXGRIDS L2 Pro — ground SLAM LiDARLCC CyberColor — 3DGS fusion

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