Our History
Founded in Sydney in 1959, AAM has a long-standing reputation as being in the vanguard of Australian geospatial mapping.
Our founders – surveyors Jim Tait & Keith Barrie – were well grounded in geodesy and error theory, and had worked together mapping Papua and Malaya. They understood well the advantages that aerial photogrammetry would bring to the more traditional mapping skillsets of geodesy and map projection.
In ’57, Barrie went to the Netherlands to The International Training Centre for Aerial Survey at Delft, specifically to bring the science back home to Australia.
This was a time when the advantages of aerial photogrammetry were only beginning to be appreciated by forward-looking engineers and planners, so Australian Aerial Mapping, Pty Ltd. was able to build an early reputation by working on many critical land transport and general infrastructure projects in the early 1960s.
Throughout this period, AAM played a key role in multiple major rail, freeway and mine site mapping projects across Western Australia, Queensland & NSW including most of the 3000km of heavy haul railway development across the north, the Hammersley Iron project, and the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works sewerage program. The rapid and successful Australian infrastructural expansion helped to cement the role of the new science of aerial photogrammetry.
In the 1970s AAM began to expand into South-East Asia, working on infrastructure and mining photogrammetry projects and eventually establishing our offices in Malaysia, Singapore, India, South Africa, and New Zealand.
In 1997 AAM became the first geospatial mapping company in Australia to offer LiDAR services – once again having the foresight to identify an industry-changing technology. Over 20 years later, LiDAR is still the dominant sensing technology in geospatial mapping.
Since our inception, the availability of high-powered computing systems has also been a driver of change, and we have adopted data processing and delivery methods as well as developing bespoke systems to meet clients needs.
Our teams have introduced pioneering innovations to the market and continue to adopt industry-leading technology such as mobile and airborne laser scanning, 360º spherical imaging, SiteSee™ and Pictometry®. Our experts can integrate client data with all major geospatial platforms such as ESRI©, and Google Earth™, and we offer consulting on enterprise GIS solutions, spatial data creation and management. [out of date?]
We also proactively build extensive libraries of digital photography, 3D building models and high-resolution digital terrain datasets to reduce our clients’ costs.
Today AAM has 15 locations in 6 countries, and over 400 employees making us one of the biggest geospatial mapping companies in the world. The core of our work is still defined by a dedication to the work principles of Barrie & Tait and a culture of inquisitiveness and dedication. Our reputation for quality work has only improved as we have gained experience across nearly every industry imaginable.
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Aerial Survey
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Land Survey
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GeoCirrus Viewer
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