Survey grade data for professionals & experts
Independent, accurate, geo tagged, dated & defensible aerial data — for the professionals who have to put their name to it.
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support for building professionals
Architects, surveyors, insurers, regulators and legal teams don't need a folder of nice photographs. They need data that holds up — measured, georeferenced, properly dated and captured by a licensed, impartial operator, so it can be relied on, defended and acted on by others.
That's the standard every Image Surveys flight is held to. We're a CAA-licensed, fully insured drone survey business based in Southport, working across the North of England and North Wales, capturing the kind of accurate, well-documented site intelligence that professional decisions — and sometimes disputes — depend on.
"Aerial data is only as valuable as the decisions it informs." Our founder, Mark Carr, spent fifteen years as a practising solicitor in court advocacy before moving into commercial drone work — so we understand exactly what it means to produce evidence that has to withstand scrutiny.
The principle is simple: an opinion is only as good as the information it is based upon
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one standard: multiple professions
We operate as a professional drone operator with robust and auditable working procedures allowing us to provide reliable data for professionals to rely upon it for their opinion and decision making.
We can assist:
Architects & Planners Accurate, georeferenced base data to design against — measured 2D site plans, orthomosaics, 3D models and photorealistic context of existing buildings and their surroundings. Survey hard-to-reach elevations and rooflines safely, and give planning and design teams a reliable picture of what's actually there.
Chartered & Building Surveyors High-resolution condition imagery and measured data for building, roof and elevation surveys for dilapidations and schedules of condition — capturing the parts of a structure you can't safely or affordably reach, in a form you can annotate, measure and place straight into your report.
Insurance Claim Managers & Loss Adjusters Rapid, dated and geolocated damage assessment following fire, flood, storm or structural failure — independent visual evidence to support claims, reserve decisions and recovery, without putting anyone at risk on a compromised site. Backed by genuine 24/7 emergency callout across the region.
Lawyers (contentious & non contentious) requiring Impartial, documented and accurately dated visual records and site documentation for land purchases, boundary, party-wall, dilapidation, nuisance, planning-enforcement and damage matters . They need clear factual exhibits, captured to a consistent, defensible standard and accompanied by full metadata, audit trail and witness statements.
Regulatory & Compliance Bodies Objective, repeatable survey evidence for compliance monitoring, planning-condition discharge, environmental and condition reporting — precisely georeferenced and dated, so it stands as a reliable record and can be compared over time.
what you receive from us
We can supply :
- Georeferenced orthomosaic maps ·
- measurable 2D site plans
- accurate, measurable 3D models and digital twins ·
- high-resolution condition imagery -dated with metadata where needed
- GIS-compatible outputs formatted for your workflow.
Every survey is precisely georeferenced and time-stamped, and we retain the flight, method and safety records behind it should we need to provide evidential statements to support the work done.
The output isn't just data, it's data you can stand behind.
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Why chose Image Surveys ?
- Accountability is built in to our operations. A legal and advocacy background means we understand what makes data reliable — and produce work to that standard.
- Independent and impartial. Objective capture, free of any interest in the outcome.
- Fully compliant and insured. CAA-licensed pilots, £5m public liability (optional £10m can be arranged) plus £2m professional indemnity.
- Properly documented. all work is fully documented and records kept
- Fast and responsive. Most jobs deploy within days; we have a genuine 24/7 emergency callout number so we can respond as quick as possible for fire, flood, storm or a building collapse.
- We work alongside your experts. Our data is designed to feed straight into the workflows of other experts such as chartered surveyors, valuers and loss adjusters who can interpret and validate it.
Where we work
We generally carry out professional services work across the Northwest of England and North Wales.
We’re especially well placed for sites in Liverpool, Southport, Preston, Bolton, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley and Lancaster, which are close to our base, so we can be on site easily which can be important if you require work that is time or condition sensitive.
If you are outside this area please contact us as we may still be able to help or find you an alternative operator