Aerodata France

What Aerodata France does

Aerodata France is a privately held French SARL (capital €100,000; RCS Lille Métropole 437 909 096; APE 7112B) founded in 2001 and headquartered at 249 rue Marie Curie, Wambrechies (Nord), specializing in aerial cartography and spatial data production. The company originated as I2G, was rebranded Aerodata France in 2007 as a subsidiary of Aerodata International Survey, and became operationally independent in 2018 with its own production facility.

The company's core offering is a portfolio of aerial data acquisition services — vertical and oblique imagery, topographic LiDAR with full waveform capability, and bathymetric LiDAR capable of simultaneous topographic and bathymetric surveys up to 50 meters depth at 3 Secchi with automatic water refraction correction — together with derived products such as topographic plans, solar cadasters, night lighting surveys, and smart city datasets. All processing is performed in-house at the Centre de Calcul Numérique, a pipeline of 7 calculation stations with 224 processing cores, 160 TB of high-performance storage, 10 Gb/s bandwidth, 20+ specialized software licenses, and a mobile on-site processing unit. The company explicitly avoids cloud storage, keeping all data on internal secured servers with documented backup procedures.

Aerodata France sells project-based professional services on a quote-based, multi-year contract model via direct sales ([email protected]). Its customer base spans three segments: French government authorities (national mapping agencies, ministries, cities); private sector companies in cartography, oil & gas, telecom, agriculture, natural resources, water management, transport, risk & insurance, mining, and environment; and international development funders including the World Bank, European Commission, African Development Bank, and KfW. Geographic operations are primarily France-based with international reach delivered through project-based contracts.

Name

Aerodata France

Legal name

Aerodata France

Website

https://aerodata-france.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aerodata France is a privately held French aerial cartography SARL founded in 2001, providing imagery (vertical/oblique), topographic LiDAR, and bathymetric LiDAR data acquisition and processing to French government agencies, private sector companies across nine verticals, and international development funders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marcq-en-baroeul

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Aerial Cartography Services: Project-based aerial data acquisition and processing services for government agencies, private companies, and international funding organizations. Services include vertical and oblique imagery, topographic and bathymetric LiDAR, and derived products such as topographic plans, solar cadaster, and smart city solutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Aerodata France is an aerial cartography and spatial data production company that operates aircraft equipped with imaging sensors and topographic/bathymetric LiDAR to capture geographic data for clients. The company sells derived data products and services including vertical/oblique imagery, topographic plans, LiDAR point clouds, bathymetric surveys, night-lighting assessments, solar cadastres, and smart-city datasets. Operations are supported by an internal digital processing pipeline and a team of photogrammetric engineers and geomatics specialists.

Product overview

Aerodata France offers a portfolio of aerial cartography services including Imagerie Verticale, Imagerie Oblique, LiDAR Topographique, and Bathymétrie Lidar as primary data acquisition services, complemented by derived mapping solutions such as Plan Topographique, Eclairage Nocturne, Cadastre Solaire, and Smart City. All services are supported by an internal Centre de Calcul Numérique processing infrastructure with 20+ software licenses, 224 processing cores, and 160 TB high-performance storage. The company serves government agencies, private sector companies (mapping, petroleum, telecommunications, agriculture, water management, transport, insurance, mining, environment), and international funders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vertical Imagery (Imagerie Verticale)
• Oblique Imagery (Imagerie Oblique)
• Topographic LiDAR (LiDAR Topographique)
• Bathymetric LiDAR (LiDAR Bathymétrique)
• Topographic Plan (Plan Topographique)

Quantifiable outcome

• Bathymetric capability up to 50m depth at 3 secchi
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Trimble: US-based positioning and geospatial technology company with significant aerial-imaging and mapping software/hardware offerings. Competes indirectly by providing the tools and platforms that power much of the industry's aerial surveying workflows, including those of firms like Aerodata France.
• Fugro: Dutch global geotechnical and geospatial services giant with an aerial survey line of business. Much larger and broader than Aerodata France, but competes for the same tenders for national mapping agencies and large infrastructure projects.
• Hexagon Geosystems (Leica Geosystems): Swiss-headquartered geospatial technology firm (owner of Leica Geosystems) that both supplies the airborne sensors used in the industry and operates aerial capture and mapping services—relevant as a horizontally-integrated incumbent in the same technology stack.

Direct peers

• Woolpert: US-based architecture, engineering, geospatial, and aerial surveying firm. Operates an aerial LiDAR and imagery acquisition practice serving federal, state, and private clients—directly comparable in service scope and customer mix.
• Terra Remote Sensing: Canadian airborne geophysics and remote-sensing firm offering airborne LiDAR, imagery, and survey services worldwide. Closely matches Aerodata France's combined LiDAR-plus-imagery value proposition for government and resource-sector clients.
• Aerodata International Survey: German aerial survey firm and former parent of Aerodata France until 2018. Operates the same core business—airborne LiDAR and imagery acquisition and processing—primarily in Germany and neighboring markets, making it the most direct functional comparable.
• Bluesky International: UK-based aerial surveying company producing aerial photography, LiDAR, and derived geospatial products for government and commercial clients in Europe—a direct European comparable in both service mix and customer profile.
• NV5 (Geospatial, incl. Quantum Spatial): American infrastructure and geospatial services firm whose geospatial practice (built around Quantum Spatial) specializes in aerial LiDAR, imagery, and remote-sensing data products for public and private clients—closely overlapping Aerodata France's project-based offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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