What Virtual TAS does

Virtual TAS is a private Australian joint venture, established in 2021 between 42-24 and Enzen Australia, building a four-dimensional Digital Twin of the state of Tasmania. Headquartered in Moonah, Tasmania with 1-10 employees, the company captures engineering-grade spatial data across the entire jurisdiction using high-density LiDAR (minimum 30 points per square metre, vertical accuracy +/- 0.15m, horizontal accuracy +/- 0.25m) and 5cm-resolution imagery, and fuses this with IoT sensor feeds to enable real-time analysis of natural and built environments. A ten-year capture cycle is designed to keep the model current and to support longitudinal analytics.

The core product, the Virtual TAS Digital Reality Platform, is offered alongside a suite of services: development and hosting of client use case algorithms, asset management and reporting, consulting, data hosting and storage, analytics, and data sales. Revenue is generated through a combination of recurring platform subscriptions, professional services engagements, and one-time data sales, sold via a consultative enterprise sales motion ('Get a Demo' / 'Contact Us' CTAs) targeting government and industry clients in Tasmania. The company also markets specialist data products including NIR and RGB imagery and AI-driven forestry analytics such as individual tree detection, stocking inventory, and carbon volume calculations.

Virtual TAS serves primary verticals in mining and geotechnical, forestry (with Sustainable Timber Tasmania as a named client), fire management and emergency services, and landslip monitoring, alongside secondary segments in heritage/archaeology and government infrastructure. The platform supports cross-industry use cases including bushfire attack level analysis, critical infrastructure geofencing, mineral exploration, and erosion monitoring. Distribution is regional (Tasmania only), and the company relies on the technology and AI capabilities of its JV parents rather than operating a standalone research organisation.

Name

Virtual TAS

Legal name

Virtual TAS

Website

https://virtual-tas.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Virtual TAS is a Tasmania-based joint venture between 42-24 and Enzen Australia that builds and operates a state-wide four-dimensional Digital Twin via LiDAR and imagery capture, selling subscriptions, analytics, and data products to government, forestry, mining, and emergency services clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial Digital Twin Platform

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Digital Twins & Predictive Analytics (Sensor Fusion, Forecasting, Optimization) (EUAHAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Digital Twin for Manufacturing & Production Optimization (IMAIAMAO)

Keywords

• LiDAR digital twin
• Spatial data capture
• Geospatial analytics platform
• 3D terrain mapping
• Engineering-grade LiDAR

Headquarters

HQ city

Moonah

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Digital Reality Platform Subscription Access: Subscription-based access to the Virtual TAS Digital Reality Platform for viewing and analysing spatial data.
2. Development and Hosting of Client Use Case Algorithms: Custom algorithm development and hosting services for specific client use cases.
3. Asset Management and Reporting: Consulting services for asset management and reporting using spatial data.
4. Data Hosting and Storage: Infrastructure services for hosting and storing client spatial data.
5. Analytics Services: Analytical services to derive insights from spatial and temporal data.
6. Data Sales: Sale of captured spatial data products including point clouds, imagery, and classified datasets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Virtual TAS creates and operates a four-dimensional Digital Twin of Tasmania using LiDAR laser capture and photography, delivered through a subscription-based Digital Reality Platform. The platform ingests situational and temporal data such as IoT sensor inputs to support real-time analysis of natural and built environments, and is complemented by services including consulting, algorithm hosting, asset management, analytics, data hosting, and raw data sales.

Product overview

Virtual TAS offers a unified Digital Reality Platform—the Virtual TAS Digital Reality Platform—complemented by a suite of value-add service modules. The core platform provides a four-dimensional Digital Twin of Tasmania created via LiDAR laser technology and photography capture, with real-time IOT sensor data ingestion capability. Supporting modules include: Development and Hosting of Client Use Case Algorithms (custom algorithm deployment on platform infrastructure), Asset Management and Reporting, Consulting Services, Data Hosting and Storage, Analytics Services, and Data Sales. Together, these form a complete spatial intelligence-as-a-service offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Virtual TAS Digital Reality Platform A four-dimensional Digital Twin platform providing engineering-grade spatial models of Tasmania, created via LiDAR laser technology and photography capture, with capability to ingest real-time IoT sensor data for analysis of natural and built environments. Targeted at enterprise and government clients.
• Development and Hosting of Client Use Case Algorithms
• Asset Management and Reporting Service for managing spatial assets and generating analytical reports using platform-captured data and derived intelligence products. Targeted at government and infrastructure clients.
• Consulting Services Data optimisation consulting services providing expertise across sectors with collaborative approaches to spatial intelligence implementation. Targeted at enterprise and government clients.
• Data Hosting and Storage Cloud infrastructure for hosting and storing captured LiDAR point cloud data, imagery, and derived analytical products. Targeted at clients requiring managed geospatial data infrastructure.
• Analytics Services Analytical services enabling real-time analysis of natural and built environments using ingested situational and temporal data including IoT sensor inputs. Targeted at enterprise and government clients.
• Data Sales Commercial access to high-resolution LiDAR and imagery data products including point clouds, NIR and RGB data for use by external parties. Targeted at organisations requiring engineering-grade spatial data sets.

Quantifiable outcome

• LiDAR quality: minimum 30 points per square metre density
• +3 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 42-24 (Forty-two Twenty-four)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture partner in Virtual TAS. 42-24 brings technology and spatial intelligence capabilities to the partnership, contributing to the creation of the four-dimensional Digital Twin of Tasmania. The joint venture combines unique intellectual property and artificial intelligence to make quality spatial intelligence affordable and accessible.
• Enzen AustraliacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture partner in Virtual TAS. Enzen Australia contributes to the partnership, working with 42-24 to create the four-dimensional Digital Twin. The collaboration focuses on delivering engineering-grade spatial models of Tasmania through LiDAR technology and photography capture.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aerometrex: Australian aerial imagery and LiDAR mapping company selling photogrammetric, LiDAR, and 3D mesh products to mining, urban planning, and infrastructure clients. Directly comparable to Virtual TAS in capturing LiDAR and high-resolution imagery across regional Australian geographies for engineering-grade applications.
• Nearmap: Australia-headquartered provider of high-resolution aerial imagery and location intelligence, offering subscription-based access to frequently updated geospatial data. Like Virtual TAS, Nearmap monetizes wide-coverage, high-resolution aerial capture as a recurring SaaS+data offering across government and enterprise use cases.
• Woolpert: US-headquartered geospatial, aerial LiDAR, and surveying firm serving government, defense, and infrastructure clients with similar digital-twin-grade spatial data products. Closely comparable to Virtual TAS in deliverable (LiDAR + imagery), vertical focus (mining, forestry, infrastructure), and engineering-grade accuracy positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Planet Labs: Earth observation company operating the largest commercial satellite constellation, providing frequent-revisit geospatial imagery and analytics for agriculture, forestry, government, and environmental monitoring. Comparable to Virtual TAS in its subscription-based geospatial data model and applicability to forestry/fire/environmental monitoring use cases.
• Fugro: Global leader in geo-data and site characterization, providing surveying, LiDAR, and geospatial services across offshore, energy, infrastructure, and environmental markets. Overlaps with Virtual TAS on mining/geotechnical LiDAR analytics and government-scale environmental data programs, though Fugro operates across a much broader service portfolio.
• Maxar Technologies: Satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence provider serving defense, government, and commercial customers with high-resolution earth observation and 3D data products. Comparable to Virtual TAS in producing enterprise-grade location intelligence from sensor-derived data, though Maxar is satellite-based rather than LiDAR-derived and serves a global rather than single-region market.
• Hexagon AB: Global provider of geospatial and industrial sensor solutions through its Geosystems division, covering LiDAR, aerial imaging, GNSS, and digital twin platforms. Like Virtual TAS, Hexagon serves mining, forestry, and infrastructure with engineering-grade spatial capture and analytics, but as a diversified industrial incumbent.

Others

• Esri: Global market leader in GIS software (ArcGIS) used by mining, forestry, emergency services, and government agencies to visualize, analyze, and manage spatial data. Functions less as a direct competitor to Virtual TAS's LiDAR capture layer and more as the platform-of-record on which the company's data products can be analyzed and consumed.
• Trimble Inc. Global provider of geospatial technology hardware and software, including LiDAR sensors, GNSS receivers, and spatial analytics platforms used in surveying, mining, agriculture, and construction. Trimble is more of an upstream technology provider than a direct service competitor, but its solutions often pair with or substitute for the data-layer work that Virtual TAS performs.

Emerging players

• Bird (formerly Bird.i): Satellite and aerial imagery analytics platform providing on-demand access to high-resolution earth observation data and computer-vision-derived insights for asset monitoring. Comparable to Virtual TAS in its model of converting raw geospatial imagery into consumable, analytics-ready products for enterprise and government clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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