Forensic & Engineering
Measured once. Argued about never.
Scenes, vessels, vehicles and structures recorded as they were found, with the accuracy an inquest or an engineer needs and the speed an incident demands. We have mobilised within hours for crime scenes, and flown out to scan two boats after a fatal collision at sea.
Three jobs.
Each with its brief, toolbox, notes from location and numbers. Where a figure is still to come, it says so.
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MARITIME INVESTIGATION
Maritime Collision Investigation
Two vessels from a fatal collision at sea, scanned so the impact could be reconstructed and the crews' accounts tested at inquest.
2 vessels
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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Puma Helicopter
A Puma helicopter scanned in its hangar in 2012 to design maintenance equipment, and reprocessed today to show what a legacy dataset still holds.
2012 year captured0 points of contact with the aircraft
THIRD PROJECT
To follow. See docs/gaps.md.
Deliverables
What comes back.
- Registered point clouds
- Scene and object meshes
- Measured drawings and orthos
- Reconstruction-ready assets
- Court-ready visualisations
- Archived raw data
What you will want to know
01How do you price a project?
There is no single rate card. Day rates, weekly rates or a fully inclusive package, whichever fits the scope and the budget in front of us. Tell us what you need and we will propose a shape.
02How much notice do you need?
We have mobilised within hours, including for crime scenes. That said, the best projects get a sensible lead-in for planning, and any drone work needs time for permissions, which are set by the regulator and not by us.
03How do you decide which technology to use?
By understanding what you need at the end. Then we choose the mix: laser scanning for geometry you can trust, photography for surface and colour, handheld structured light for the small and the awkward. Usually more than one, often all of them.
04How long does the capture take?
Hours or days, not weeks. Short capture windows mean less disruption and consistent light and weather across the dataset. On big jobs we run several teams at once for the same reason.
05Is your equipment portable?
Everything is built to come to you: a village, a hangar, a set in Bulgaria, a quayside in the Mediterranean. Precise, professional, portable.
06How long does processing and delivery take?
As long as you have. Shorter schedules mean more of us working in parallel. On Under Salt Marsh, a first-pass model was ready within hours of leaving site so coverage could be checked before the full model was built.
07What formats do you deliver?
Most recognised 2D, 3D and 4D formats: CAD drawings, BIM, registered point clouds, textured OBJ or FBX with UDIMs, digi-doubles, LED-wall environments and 3D Gaussian splats. Tell us what your pipeline wants and that is what arrives.
08Do you keep the data after delivery?
Yes, unless you ask us to destroy it, which happens and which we honour. Otherwise raw and delivered data stay in multiple copies on our secure network, so a project can be revisited years later.
09Who owns the data?
The contract decides. Absent a prior agreement, we retain the intellectual property in the captured data and you, as the commissioning client, hold the right to use it for the purpose it was made. Yours to use, ours to keep safe.
Scope a project.
Tell us what needs capturing and where. We reply within one working day with a method and a price.
hello@kittiwakedigital.com