The story, the people and the equipment behind LAM Geospatial.
Composite of our own work — Strings Festival, Robin Hill, with contours from our own survey
Meet the team
Who's flying.
A face and a name behind every survey and every shoot.
Jason Lane
Director & UAV Pilot
GVC
A2 CofC
CAA PDRA01
Drone Survey Course
IOSH Managing Safely
NEBOSH Incident Investigation
First Aid at Work
Before Lane Aerial Media Ltd (LAM Geospatial), I spent over two years operating drones for work, delivering internal communications through bespoke video production — alongside events planning and delivery for business.
That combination matters more than it might sound. Both strands were delivered in a commercial environment — to budgets, to deadlines, and to stakeholders who expected a return on the spend. So I approach a survey dataset the same way I approach a film: what is it for, who has to act on it, and what will it be judged against?
Industry or events, the commercial question is the same one. That's the part a lot of technically capable suppliers miss.
Our story
How it started.
Why a sideline became a company — and what it's being built toward.
Lane Aerial Media Ltd was formed to build on those skills properly rather than leave them as a sideline — to turn something I was already good at into a business with a future in it.
The work I care about sits where creative and data-driven meet. The same flight can produce a striking image and an accurate dataset, and in practice most clients need both. Nobody buys visual media or point clouds for their own sake — they buy something that has to earn its place.
I'm building this for the long term, and for my family's security as much as my own.
The fleet
Three aircraft and a base station.
Matched to the work rather than one airframe stretched across everything.
DJI Matrice 4E
The survey workhorse. Enterprise mapping airframe with RTK positioning support and a mechanical shutter — built for the high-overlap grid flights that photogrammetry and topographic survey depend on.
PHOTOGRAMMETRY · MAPPING · RTK
DJI Mavic 4 Pro
The camera ship. Flagship imaging for event coverage, property and marketing work — the aircraft behind the night-time festival stills, where low light and fast-changing stage lighting give sensors the hardest time.
AERIAL MEDIA · EVENTS · LOW LIGHT
DJI Mini 4 Pro
Sub-250g. The lightest regulatory category, which makes it the right tool for tight, built-up or access-restricted sites where a heavier airframe would need more room than the location allows.
SUB-250G · CONFINED SITES · ROOF INSPECTION
Emlid Reach RS4
The ground truth. A survey-grade multi-band RTK GNSS receiver, used to establish ground control and independent check points — the part of the process that turns a good-looking model into a measurable one.
RTK GNSS · GROUND CONTROL · CHECK POINTS
Accuracy comes from the ground control and flight design, not just the aircraft — which is why the base station matters as much as the drones.
In the field
The work, up close.
Space for real photos from recent flights — equipment, sites, and the team at work.
Strings Festival, Robin Hill · beam lighting through hazeThe Woodland Venue from aboveWorking the gaps in the canopy
More to come as survey and inspection work is photographed — equipment, sites and the team in the field.
Flight compliance
Flown properly, every time.
Every job is planned and flown under the same standard, whatever the size of the site.
Credentials
GVC
A2 CofC
CAA PDRA01
Drone Survey Course
IOSH Managing Safely
NEBOSH Incident Investigation
First Aid at Work
ICO Registered
£10m Public Liability
£1m Professional Indemnity (pending)
IW Chamber Member
Remote pilot holds a General VLOS Certificate (GVC) and A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC).
Certified on completion of a Drone Survey Course (September 2026), covering the knowledge, skills and practical competence to plan and carry out safe, professional and effective drone survey operations.
Operates under a CAA PDRA01 authorisation, permitting closer operation near people and property than standard rules allow.
Health and safety qualified: IOSH Managing Safely and the NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation. First Aid at Work certified (FAQ Level 3 Award, RQF).
Carrying £10,000,000 of public liability cover for bodily injury and damage to property, each occurrence, and £1,000,000 of professional indemnity (pending). Aviation cover compliant with EU Regulation (EC) No 785/2004. Evidence of cover available on request.
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller (ZC189317). Survey data is held in the UK, kept private to the people you name, and deleted on request.
Member of the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, the Island's business membership organisation.
Flown on a DJI Matrice 4E, Mavic 4 Pro and Mini 4 Pro, with an Emlid Reach RS4 base station — see the fleet.
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