Complete systems

Three systems, built from instruments we hold as live listings and priced at list. Each one says what it measures, what it costs and what it does not do, because the third of those is the part that decides whether it is right for you. Nothing here is a package invented for a web page. Every line links to the product it is.

These are configured starting points rather than fixed bundles. Tell us the job and we will move a line, and the whole system goes on one purchase order as one requisition rather than as four.

System one, interior and as-built capture

The job: floor plans, scan to BIM, as-built records, small sites, anything indoors. You walk the space and the scanner solves its own trajectory as it goes, so there is no control network and no line of sight to a base.

Line	What it does here	List
FJ Dynamics Trion P1	Handheld SLAM scanner. 40 m range at 10% reflectivity, up to 2 cm relative accuracy, 200,000 points per second, 512 GB on board.	$8,499
FJD extension pole	Reaches over obstructions, under soffits and into voids, and takes the scanner off your chest for the length of a survey.	$450
Indicative total		$8,949

What it does not do. It has nothing on board to georeference with. The cloud lands in a local coordinate system, and putting it on a national grid means post processing against control you established some other way. If the deliverable has to sit in real world coordinates, this is the wrong system and system two is the right one. If the deliverable is a floor plan or a volume, paying for georeferencing you will never switch on is money wasted.

Worth considering: stepping up to the Trion P2 at $9,999. The range nearly doubles to 70 m and the runtime doubles to four hours, which in practice is the difference between one battery swap a day and four. If any of the work is outdoors or the spaces are large, it is the better buy for $1,500.

System two, georeferenced ground survey

The job: site records, topographic survey, volumes, anything where the result has to land in real world coordinates and be defensible afterward.

Line	What it does here	List
FJ Dynamics Trion S2	The capture. Carries an integrated IMU and RTK module, so the cloud is georeferenced on the walk rather than fitted to control afterward. 320,000 points per second, two 12 MP cameras for colorization.	$18,999
Emlid Reach RS3	The control. Base or rover, tilt compensation to 60 degrees at 20 mm, dual band radio or NTRIP. Sets your own base where there is no network, and measures the check shots that prove the scan.	$2,999
FJD Trion Model processing license	The processing. Budget for it at the same time as the scanner. A team that owns a scanner and no license produces nothing for a month.	$8,399
FJD extension pole	Reach and comfort over a full day.	$450
Indicative total		$30,847

What it does not do. It is a ground system. It captures what you can walk to, so anything across water, inside a live carriageway, on a roof or under a canopy you cannot get beneath is out of reach. It is also a centimeter class instrument rather than a millimeter one: for deformation monitoring or heritage recording where millimeters decide, a terrestrial laser scanner on a tripod is the correct tool and we do not sell you this instead.

Where the money goes: the S2 costs roughly $9,000 more than the P2, and that difference is the IMU and the RTK module. It is worth it when the deliverable must be georeferenced and it is worth nothing when it must not.

System three, airborne LiDAR survey

The job: corridors, quarries, large sites, and anywhere you need ground returns from under vegetation. A laser gets between the leaves where photogrammetry only ever sees the canopy, which is the entire reason airborne LiDAR exists.

Line	What it does here	List
Matrice 400 and Zenmuse L3 system	The drone, the sensor, the gimbal connector and the D-RTK 3 base station the accuracy figures are quoted against, on one line. 3 cm vertical RMSE at 120 m under DJI's stated conditions, 950 m detection at 10% reflectivity.	$30,649
Indicative total	Before flight batteries and a charging station, below.	$30,649

The Matrice 400 base configuration ships without flight batteries or a charging station. That is how DJI sells it and how every US reseller lists it, and it means this system as priced above will not leave the ground on its own. Tell us the flight time you need per mobilization and we will size the batteries and the station and put them on the same purchase order. Better to read that here than to find it on a delivery dock.

What it does not do. The Zenmuse L3 is supported on the Matrice 400 only. It does not fit a Matrice 350 RTK, a Matrice 30 or a Matrice 4 series aircraft, and no adapter changes it. If you already fly a 350 RTK, the sensor that fits it is the Zenmuse L2, and that is the honest recommendation rather than the more expensive one.

If you are buying with federal money, this system is not available to you. DJI is named on the Department of Defense 1260H list, and since 22 December 2025 federal funds awarded through a contract, grant or cooperative agreement cannot be used to procure or operate a covered unmanned aircraft system. The two drones we sell that are on the published cleared list are the Inspired Flight IF800 Tomcat and IF1200A. The detail, with the sections cited, is on the government procurement page. Ask us before you build a requisition around this.

Choosing between them

	One, interior	Two, ground survey	Three, airborne
Indicative price	$8,949	$30,847	$30,649
Georeferenced	No, local coordinates	Yes, RTK on board	Yes, against a base station
Typical accuracy	Centimeter class, relative	Centimeter class, absolute	3 cm vertical at 120 m, DJI conditions
Best at	Interiors, as-builts, volumes	Sites you can walk	Corridors, large areas, under canopy
Fails at	Anything needing real world coordinates	Anything you cannot reach on foot	Interiors, and anything where a flight is not permitted
Pilot certification	None	None	Yes, and airspace permission

Most organizations that buy two of these buy one and three, because handheld capture and airborne capture cover between them almost everything that is not millimeter work. Two and three overlap more than people expect on open ground.

Equipping a teaching program rather than a survey team? The department package is nine instruments on one purchase order, built so an instrument reaches every pair of hands rather than sitting at the front of the room. Teaching lab lists at three budget levels are on the universities page.

Have it specified rather than configured

Tell us the area, the terrain, the vegetation and the accuracy the deliverable has to hold. A specialist will size it with you and will tell you when the cheaper system is the right one. Not a script, and not always the most expensive answer.

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