# LiDar aquisition
**URL:** https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686
**Category:** cnHeat
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686 "2024-10-01T17:05:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@maxwire](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/maxwire)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/1 "2024-10-01T17:05:36Z")
Never having priced a geospatial firm, it may not be cost effective anyway, but does Cambium have any partner arrangements or preferred geospatial vendors for collecting new LiDar data?
Say a new subdivision is built and we want a fresh LiDar collection for example. I assume entire coverage area collection would be very cost prohibitive, but single regions may not
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Poche](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/Seth_Poche)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/2 "2024-10-01T17:58:54Z")
So we have worked with some various groups in the past as needed, but I wouldn’t exactly say that we have a partnership with any of them. Please email us at [cnheat@cambiumneworks.com](mailto:cnheat@cambiumneworks.com), and I can share more info.
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### Author:  [@jessearcher](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/jessearcher)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/3 "2024-10-03T19:03:49Z")
DJI have some LiDAR drones so I assume getting small amounts of LiDAR captured wouldn’t be too expensive?
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Poche](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/Seth_Poche)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/4 "2024-10-03T19:32:17Z")
Jesse, that’s a good point. When this DJI product line launched I had done some initial investigation. I think these drones could be had for $30-$40k (USD) new. There are probably used versions that are much more affordable. And the sample data I saw was really superb. If a customer can get us this data we would be more than happy to process it to load it into cnHeat.
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### Author:  [@maxwire](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/maxwire)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/5 "2024-10-03T22:43:00Z")
It was around that range when i looked into it too. Even used its probably a hurt.
Does Cambium actively persue updated LiDar loke the iphone and google ground collection?
Are there repositories we can check for public use and purchasable datasets?
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Poche](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/Seth_Poche)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/lidar-aquisition/101686/6 "2024-10-04T14:06:37Z")
This is the easiest source of truth for free LiDAR in the US.
> **[United States Interagency Elevation Inventory](https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/)**
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> NOAA Office for Coastal Management United States Interagency Elevation Inventory