3DGS
Surveyors first. Processors second.
Most survey firms we talk to are not short on field capacity. They are short on the hours it takes to turn a scan into a deliverable, and that is the gap we fill. We grew up doing the field work ourselves, and that is why our modeling holds up. 3DGS has been doing it for US survey firms since 2015.
In the field
History
How we got here.
| When | Where | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | India | Elcome Technologies (our prior parent company) along with Leica Geosystems launches the first laser scanner in India, the Cyrax 2500 |
| 2009 | India | Plant Engineering & Geomatic Services (PEGS) is born as a full service 3D laser scanning and surveying company, built to serve the Indian market and proliferate LiDAR technology across the region. |
| 2012 | Global | PEGS starts to execute projects across the region, taking on laser scanning projects in Northern Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. |
| 2015 | USA | 3DGS opens in Oakland, CA, bringing the drafting and modeling work built at PEGS to survey firms across the US. Same owner, same team, one person accountable for both. |
| 2020-2022 | Global | Covid slows survey work in India, but many of our clients abroad keep working as essential services, and 3DGS keeps delivering for them throughout. |
| 2024 | USA | 3DGS moves its headquarters from California to Washington State. The Bay Area is beautiful, but the Pacific Northwest has a charm of its own. |
| 2026 | USA | 3DGS gets a new look and feel. Same crew behind it. |
Why it matters
"Your point clouds are read by surveyors before a single line is drawn."
Most firms offering point cloud processing have never held a scanner. We were scanning before most of the country knew what a point cloud was.
- Where we started
- We ran the first commercial laser scanning operation in India, when total stations were still the default and half of every meeting went on explaining what a point cloud was. Since then we have run projects end to end, field to final deliverable, in 21 countries, on Leica, Riegl, Faro and Trimble kits.
- What we catch
- Registration issues, control problems and bad scans, before they turn into bad deliverables. We have made those mistakes ourselves and driven back to site to fix them, so we know a clean capture from one that looks fine now and causes an argument three steps later.
- How clients use us
- Some call us for one job in a busy quarter. Others have used us as their only modeling team for years and never had to build one in-house. We are set up for both, though we prefer the second.
Standard
The same standard, regardless of deliverable.
Nobody outside this team touches a file between your data and your client's desk. There is no subcontractor chain and no junior queue you can't see into: the person scoping the job, the person modeling it and the person who signs off on QA are on the same roster, working the same files. It is a deliberate choice, not a staffing limit, and we have grown slowly enough on purpose to keep it that way.
LiDAR only, terrestrial-led with aerial support. Not photogrammetry, and we will tell you plainly when a job needs a different pipeline than the one we run, rather than take the work and figure it out on your time.
How we quoteWhat clients have said.
Where we work
Headquartered in the US. Built as an international practice.
3D Geomatic Services is headquartered in Washington State and built as an international practice from the start. We run our survey and processing work from New Delhi, India, which keeps our overheads lean, and that saving shows up in your quote.
The work has reached 21 countries: laser scanning of a Unilever manufacturing facility in Indonesia, registration and modeling at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, heritage documentation at the Taj Mahal, terrain and volumetric mapping for mining operations, and corporate campuses and hotels across the United States.
Contracting, communication and delivery all run through the US entity, and every file that reaches your client came through us. If your project is in the US, overlap with your working day is built into the scope: hours where the team is live and reachable, and updates the rest of the time.
Quote in one to two days
Judge us on your own scan.
Send one scan and the deliverable you need. You get a capped quote in one to two business days, or a sample area modeled at no cost if you'd rather see the work first.