LiDAR. Humboldt County & Northern Arizona
LiDAR Scanning & Digital Twins
Industrial-grade LiDAR scanning and digital twin deliverables.
Industrial-grade LiDAR scanning and digital twin documentation for lumber mills, construction firms, engineering, and infrastructure clients across the North Coast, millimeter-accurate spatial capture, interactive 3D walkthroughs, and measurement-grade documentation that goes beyond photography.
The Approach
Millimeter-accurate spatial documentation.
LiDAR captures a space as measurable 3D data, every wall, every piece of equipment, every elevation change in millimeter accuracy. The output is an interactive digital twin clients can walk through, measure against, and use as the source of truth for design, planning, or documentation.
Industrial and commercial spatial capture for lumber mills, construction firms, engineering, and infrastructure projects across the North Coast. Each engagement starts with a site walk-through to scope deliverables, interactive walkthrough, measurement data, floor plans, optional CAD/BIM integration.
Industrial-grade scanning equipment in-house, with extended capabilities through partnership for larger or more specialized projects.
What's Included
What you actually get with lidar.
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Industrial-Grade LiDAR Scan
Millimeter-accurate spatial capture of interior and exterior environments. Equipment-dense industrial sites, complex multi-room facilities, infrastructure documentation.
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Interactive Digital Twin
Web-accessible 3D walkthrough, clients can navigate, measure, and explore the captured space directly from a browser. No software install required.
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Floor Plans + Measurements
Accurate floor plans extracted from the scan data. Measurements precise enough for design planning, retrofit work, and as-built documentation.
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High-Resolution Stills
Pull still imagery from any angle of the scanned space, useful for documentation, marketing, insurance, or preservation records.
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CAD/BIM Integration (optional)
Point cloud exports compatible with AutoCAD, Revit, and other CAD/BIM workflows for engineering and architecture clients.
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Aerial-Plus-Ground Combo
Combined LiDAR scan with FAA Part 107 drone aerial photogrammetry for projects that span large outdoor sites, the two technologies complement each other.
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Historic Preservation Documentation
Millimeter-accurate spatial records for Ferndale's National Historic Landmark district, Eureka's Carson Mansion and Old Town Victorians, Mendocino village, and Point Arena Lighthouse, irreplaceable architecture captured as a permanent, measurable archive for restoration, insurance, and grant documentation.
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Virtual Inspections & Remote Access
Insurance adjusters, engineers, AHJs, and off-site stakeholders can navigate the captured space from any browser. No site visit required. Useful for facility audits, dispute documentation, and multi-stakeholder coordination across geography.
Verticals Served
One scanner. Two industries.
LiDAR work splits into a few different shapes depending on who the client is. Industrial owners want as-built records and survey data. Property and heritage clients want a permanent archive. Same equipment, different deliverables.
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01 · Industrial & SurveyLumber mills, construction sites, engineering, infrastructure.
Multi-acre site capture, equipment-dense facility scans, and survey-grade as-built records for owners, GCs, and engineers across the North Coast. Drone-based aerial LiDAR via the DJI Matrice 350 RTK with the Zenmuse L2 for outdoor scope; terrestrial LiDAR for everything indoors and tight.
- Mill and factory floor as-built documentation
- Pre-construction site capture and progress tracking
- Aerial LiDAR for large outdoor parcels
- Point-cloud exports for AutoCAD and Revit workflows
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02 · Property & HeritageCustom homes, commercial buildings, historic preservation.
Permanent measurement-grade records of architecture, custom estate documentation, commercial property as-builts, and irreplaceable heritage capture across the Victorian inventory of Ferndale, Eureka's Old Town, and Mendocino village. The deliverable is a digital record that outlives the building.
- Custom home and estate as-built capture
- Commercial property documentation and insurance archives
- Historic-landmark digital twins for restoration and grants
- Floor plans and measurements extracted from the scan
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Matterport Service Partner
Delivered on the platform that defined the category.
Tex Kelly Productions is a Matterport Service Partner. Scans are delivered through the same platform that, by Matterport's own count, has been used to capture more spaces than any other 3D solution, with over 20 billion square feet indexed since 2011.
For clients who want their captured space hosted somewhere their architects, contractors, insurers, or department heads can already navigate, measure, and annotate without specialized software, the Matterport platform is the deliverable. We capture; you and your team work inside the model from any browser.
Specs and platform stats cited above are Matterport-published partner figures.
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Dollhouse views
A photorealistic, fully interactive cut-away of the captured space, clients understand the building's layout at a glance.
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Mattertags
Embedded annotations, links, videos, and inline notes pinned anywhere inside the 3D model.
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MatterPak
High-resolution digital asset export, point clouds, schematic floor plans, and meshes downloadable from Matterport Cloud.
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Measurement mode
Accurate dimensional measurements taken directly inside the model, by anyone with the link, no software install.
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Blur Brush
Privacy controls that blur faces or personal information visible in the scan, important for occupied or sensitive sites.
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Notes & sharing
Threaded commenting and shareable links so stakeholders coordinate inside the model, not in scattered email threads.
The capture itself
Every measurement, every angle.
A LiDAR scan resolves the physical world into millions of measured points and a triangulated mesh, the source data that every floor plan, BIM model, and digital twin downstream is built on.
Walk through a live capture
An actual scan, live in your browser.
Click into the model below to navigate the captured space, measure room-to-room, switch into the dollhouse view, or open the floor plan. No software install, everything runs in this browser tab.
Captured by Tex Kelly Productions and hosted on the Matterport platform. Use the navigation controls at the bottom of the model to switch between inside view, dollhouse, and floor plan; click any room to teleport.
Real-world captures
What LiDAR & digital twins look like in the field.
The range of environments scan capture handles, from active construction and manufacturing floors to commercial real estate, education, and hospitality. Each is a different vertical, captured with the same equipment and the same delivery pipeline.
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AEC collaboration
Design and build teams review existing conditions from a digital twin, no site visit required.
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Point cloud capture
Millimeter-accurate point cloud data overlaid on the physical space, the source of every downstream deliverable.
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Manufacturing floor
Equipment-dense industrial facilities scanned for as-built documentation and operational planning.
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Whole-building dollhouse
Multi-story structures captured top-to-bottom as a single navigable 3D model.
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Public sector & SLED
K-12, higher-ed, government, and public-safety facilities documented for safety preparedness and facilities management.
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Hospitality & CRE
Hotels, resorts, and commercial properties documented for marketing, planning, and facility management.
Photography on this section is drawn from Matterport-published partner collateral and shown here as representative examples of the kinds of environments LiDAR & Matterport scan capture covers. Tex Kelly Productions delivers comparable captures across the North Coast.
Cities Served
LiDAR in 5 priority cities.
Each city below has its own dedicated lidar page with venue notes, microclimate context, and city-specific FAQs. Click into the city closest to you.
By County
LiDAR across multiple counties.
Each county hub has dedicated lidar content for the entire region, venues, microclimate, and process specific to that county, across both the California and Northern Arizona service areas.
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Humboldt County · California
LiDAR in Humboldt County
California's redwood coast, coastline, ancient forests, agricultural valleys, and the cities of Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna, Ferndale, and Trinidad. The home market of Tex Kelly Productions.
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Del Norte County · California
LiDAR in Del Norte County
California's northernmost coastal county. Crescent City, Smith River, Klamath, and the Redwood National and State Parks corridor. Destination weddings and remote drone work.
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Mendocino County · California
LiDAR in Mendocino County
Wine-country logistics inland, dramatic coastline outward. Ukiah, Fort Bragg, Mendocino, and the Anderson Valley. Wedding venues, vineyard productions, and small-city brand work.
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Yavapai County · Arizona
LiDAR in Yavapai County
The Prescott metro. Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, the Verde Valley wine country, and the red rock arts town of Sedona. Mile-high climate, dark skies, and the anchor of Tex's born-and-raised Arizona service area.
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Coconino County · Arizona
LiDAR in Coconino County
Flagstaff, Williams, Page, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon, one of the largest counties in the country geographically, anchored by Northern Arizona University and the destination tourism economy across the Colorado Plateau.
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Also Served
Other cities where I run LiDAR scans.
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Scotia
→Timber and lumber mill documentation. Scotia's industrial heritage makes it a primary site for industrial scanning work.
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Fortuna
→Industrial and agricultural facilities along the Eel River corridor.
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McKinleyville
→Coastal-corridor commercial facilities, real estate, and infrastructure documentation.
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Ferndale
→Victorian historic-preservation documentation. Ferndale's National Historic Landmark district is a primary site for heritage digital twins.
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Loleta
→Dairy and ag-processing facilities along the Eel River delta.
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Garberville
→Avenue of the Giants lodging documentation and southern Humboldt commercial real estate.
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Orick
→Redwood National Park-adjacent lodging, retreat-center documentation, and architectural digital twins.
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Smith River
→Ag-processing facilities, lily-bulb cold-storage, and Oregon-border infrastructure documentation.
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Klamath
→Port-adjacent facilities, timber-corridor infrastructure, and tourism-site digital twins.
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Fort Bragg
→Harbor infrastructure, timber-corridor facilities, and Skunk Train historic-preservation documentation.
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Willits
→Skunk Train historic infrastructure, 101-corridor commercial facilities, and rail-adjacent industrial documentation.
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Boonville
→Anderson Valley winery facilities, tasting-room buildings, and ag-processing digital twins.
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Point Arena
→Lighthouse historic-preservation documentation and coastal-infrastructure scanning.
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Ukiah
→Wine country logistics, agricultural facilities, commercial real estate.
How It Works
From first message to final delivery.
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Site Walk-Through
On-site scoping visit to understand the facility, capture goals, and any specialty requirements (CAD output, multi-day scope, etc.).
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Proposal
Written proposal with scan plan, deliverables, and timeline. Industrial scope scales with site size and equipment density.
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Pre-Scan Coordination
Site access, safety briefing, equipment shutdowns or schedule windows for areas that need to be captured 'clean.'
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On-Site Scan
Industrial-grade LiDAR equipment captures every angle, every elevation. Most single-floor facilities scan in 2–4 hours; multi-acre industrial sites take a full day or more.
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Processing + Delivery
Point cloud processing, mesh generation, walkthrough hosting, floor plan extraction, and CAD export. Standard turnaround 1–3 weeks depending on scope.
Investment
LiDAR engagements are scoped per project, site size, equipment density, and deliverable type all affect pricing. Most projects start in the low four figures. Site walk-through is free; the proposal includes detailed scope.
LiDAR FAQs
Common questions.
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What is LiDAR and a digital twin?
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is high-precision 3D scanning that captures a space as a measurable, navigable model. A digital twin is the resulting 3D representation, a fully accurate spatial record clients can walk through, measure, and overlay design changes onto. Useful for industrial, commercial, and infrastructure documentation. -
Who is this service for?
Lumber mills documenting facility layouts, construction firms tracking site progress, engineering firms doing as-built surveys, real estate developers showcasing complex spaces, and historical preservation projects. Anyone who needs accurate spatial documentation that goes beyond photography. -
How long does a scan take?
Depends on scope. A single floor of a small commercial building can be scanned in 2–4 hours; a multi-acre industrial facility takes a full day or more. Tex provides a timeline as part of every project quote. -
What deliverables do clients receive?
Interactive 3D walkthroughs accessible via web link, high-resolution still images from any angle, accurate measurement data, floor plans extracted from the scan, and optional integration with CAD/BIM workflows. Custom deliverables (point cloud exports, mesh models) are available on request. -
How does this compare to photogrammetry or drone mapping?
LiDAR captures ground-truth spatial data with millimeter accuracy, ideal for interior spaces, equipment-dense environments, and any project where measurement accuracy matters. For large outdoor sites where coverage matters more than per-point accuracy, drone aerial photogrammetry is the better tool. For many projects, the two are combined. -
How accurate is the scan?
Industrial LiDAR scanners we use deliver point accuracy in the millimeter range under typical conditions, with registration error across a multi-scan facility typically held under 5mm. That's accurate enough for as-built architectural documentation, retrofit planning, and equipment-clearance verification. Project-specific accuracy targets are confirmed in the proposal. -
Can I get a Revit, AutoCAD, or BIM model from the scan?
Yes. Point cloud exports are compatible with Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, and other CAD/BIM workflows. We can hand off raw point clouds for your in-house team to model, or coordinate scan-to-BIM modeling with an AEC partner for clients who need a delivered Revit model. Output format is scoped per project, let us know what your downstream workflow looks like. -
How is the digital twin delivered? Do I need special software?
The digital twin is delivered as a web-accessible link, clients open it in any browser, no software install required. From the browser you can navigate the space, take measurements, drop notes, and share access with stakeholders. Raw point cloud and CAD-compatible exports are available on request for technical workflows.
Inquire
Tell me about your LiDAR scope.
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