OPTICAL · VEHICLE-MOUNTED

Vale Optical Payload

See what's happening in the field, fast.

Purpose-built survey instrumentation for wide-area work. Mount it to a helicopter or a truck, cover ground at speed, and capture survey-grade optical and LiDAR data that the Vale Platform turns into structured results, compressing weeks of field analysis into hours.

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Proven in the field

One pass over the ground, mapped end to end.

Mount the payload, drive the route, and the platform turns the run into structured data.

Everything below is real output from one night survey covering roughly 560 acres.

Wide map of a real vehicle survey: vehicle route and red LiDAR coverage fans — SURVEY OVERVIEWRoughly 560 acres covered in one night. The red fans show where the LiDAR swept; orange is the route the vehicle drove.

One survey event zoomed in: deer detections projected onto the map along the route — EVENT, LOCATEDZoom into one event on the route. Every deer detection is projected onto the map from the vehicle's path and its LiDAR range.

Thermal strip of two deer detected along the route, paused on the clearest frame — THERMAL + LiDAR · DEER EVENTTwo deer detected along the route, classified, and LiDAR-ranged at ~28 to 31 m. The strip pauses on the clearest frame so you can see them.

Built for the mission

Made for Wildlife agencies and large organizations.

When you're responsible for surveying entire regions, you need imagery at scale - and you need it to be reliable. The Vale Optical Payload is engineered for the organizations doing serious, wide-area wildlife work.

◇ HELICOPTER-MOUNTED

◇ TRUCK-MOUNTED

Why Vale

Survey-grade capture, engineered for the field.

Wide-area coverage

Cover survey routes in a fraction of the time of ground teams, with consistent imaging across the whole transect.

Stabilized optics

Vibration-isolated mounts hold image quality steady on rotor and rough-road platforms alike.

LiDAR-fused capture

Optical and spatial data captured together, so the platform can resolve depth and density downstream.

Feeds the platform directly

Imagery flows into the Vale Platform for automated analysis - no manual pipeline to maintain.

Ruggedized for the field

Sealed against dust, moisture, and the realities of deployment far from base.

Agency-ready reporting

Outputs formatted for the documentation standards survey work demands.

ROI calculator

What a payload survey saves vs ground crews.

Acres to survey50,000

Crew day rate ($/day)$1,800

Assumes about 500 acres/day on the ground versus roughly 8,000 acres/day with a vehicle-mounted payload.

Sources: Buckland et al. 2015; Ruette et al. 2003; Howe & Buckland 2017. Methodology and references →

94Survey days saved

$168,750Field cost saved

16xFaster coverage

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