Processing and validating data for a cadastral survey with PIX4Dmatic reduced weeks of work to hours, minimizing time spent on-site!
Under the leadership of José Alfredo Betancourt, JAB Visual has been innovating with drones in Colombia for over 13 years. As pioneers in the industry, they have developed projects that combine precision, speed, and efficiency. In their mission to modernize land registry systems and boost tourism, they undertook a challenging project in Jardín, Antioquia, using PIX4Dmatic to transform how territorial information is managed.
The challenge: digitizing a municipality for territorial and tourism planning
Jardín, located in southwestern Antioquia (Colombia), is a municipality that blends a rich architectural heritage with breathtaking natural landscapes. The town is characterized by traditional architecture, featuring adobe and rammed-earth constructions, many of which have clay tile roofs and wooden structures. While visually charming, these buildings pose challenges for cadastral updates due to unregistered modifications and the lack of precise documentation regarding expansions or structural changes.
View of the municipality of Jardín in Antioquia (Colombia)
Additionally, the municipality’s irregular topography has shaped its urban growth, with houses built on steep slopes and narrow streets that make access to certain areas difficult. This, combined with the absence of updated maps, makes digitizing the territory a crucial challenge for infrastructure planning and management. This complicates the efficient updating and administration of the cadastre.
The goal of the project was to generate a detailed 3D model of the municipality as part of a territorial and tourism planning initiative. The model would be used to analyze the current state of the buildings and their integration into the environment.
Thanks to PIX4Dmatic, a large amount of data was collected and processed quickly and accurately, eliminating the challenges associated with traditional field measurement methods. The main challenge was field visits: the combination of mountainous terrain with hard-to-reach areas, along with constant rainfall that limited data collection efforts, made inspections tedious, time-consuming, and costly.
Careful planning was needed to avoid interference with local tourism activities like paragliding during drone flights. Here, PIX4Dmatic played a key role, enabling the fast and precise digitization of the municipality without the need for constant field presence.
Flythrough of drone survey from PIX4Dmatic
Source: Pix4D Website
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