The advances in remote sensing equipment and processing software in recent years has significantly broadened the range of possible applications aerial surveying can provide. Aerial survey provides an economical alternative to traditional ground based survey techniques, permitting imagery and data to be acquired for large areas in a minimal timeframe enabling faster application turnaround.

Digital Mapping Australia is continually looking at new applications of digital data acquisition aiming to provide practiced solutions to clients while maintaining a focus on developing alternative methods to develop a market niche. For this DIMAP focuses on acquisition using aircraft equipped with multiple sensor technologies and applications combing information from these different data sets.