Hawaiʻi geospatial · GIS · LiDAR · mapping
Geospatial mapping in service of Hawaiʻi.
Hawaii Mapping is a Hilo-based geospatial firm — GIS, LiDAR, drone and aerial mapping, and remote sensing for the land, agencies, and communities of Hawaiʻi. Precise, decision-ready data for forestry, wildfire mitigation, utilities, land management, and conservation, on every island.
What we do
One Hawaiʻi-based team across the full geospatial workflow — from field collection to LiDAR, processing, analysis, and the deliverables your engineers and GIS staff already use.
- GIS consulting and application development
- Drone and aerial remote sensing
- LiDAR mapping and bare-earth terrain models
- Aerial mapping, orthomosaics, and surveying
- Forestry inventory and canopy analysis
- Wildland fire mitigation and fuels mapping
- Utility and vegetation management mapping
- Land management and change detection
- Environmental and cultural-resource mapping
Services
Geospatial services, built for Hawaiʻi terrain
From the canopy of the Hāmākua coast to utility corridors, farmland, and shorelines, we collect, process, and deliver data you can act on.
GIS Consulting & Apps
Custom GIS analysis, web maps, dashboards, and Survey123 field apps that turn geospatial data into decisions your team can act on.
Learn moreDrone & Aerial Mapping
Orthomosaics, 3D models, and topographic surveys from high-resolution drone and aerial imagery, flown to documented ground control.
Learn moreLiDAR
Survey-grade point clouds and bare-earth terrain models that see through dense Hawaiian canopy to the ground beneath.
Learn moreMultispectral
NDVI and multi-band imagery for crop health, vegetation stress, weed detection, and forestry condition assessments.
Learn moreSurvey123 & Field Data
Programmed tablet surveys, trained field crews, and clean datasets feeding live dashboards and monthly reporting.
Learn moreForestry & Vegetation
Canopy height models, tree inventories, and fuels and fire-risk mapping for Hawaiian forests and utility corridors.
Learn moreLand Management
Change detection, parcel and planning maps, and terrain analysis for landowners and agencies managing Hawaiian land.
Learn moreConservation
Habitat, shoreline, and cultural-resource documentation with a light field footprint and respect for sensitive places.
Learn moreThe data
From raw imagery to decisions
We capture with LiDAR, drone, and multispectral sensors and process the results into the deliverables your engineers, foresters, and fire crews actually use — terrain, point clouds, and canopy analysis you can build on.
Featured project
Koaia Trail, mapped acre by acre
We mapped 500+ acres of the Koaia Trail with drone LiDAR for Chinook Landscape Architecture and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources — bare-earth terrain and contours to guide trail design, plus a tree-canopy assessment documenting current conditions across the site.
- Survey-grade terrain and contour models for design
- Canopy height models and per-tree canopy mapping
- Deliverables ready for the design team's existing workflow
Areas we serve
Every island, one team
Based on Hawaiʻi Island and mobilizing statewide — local knowledge of island terrain, trade winds, and the agencies you answer to, without inter-island guesswork. We work every Hawaiian island, including Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe — and Niʻihau on request.
Featured project
Wildfire mitigation for Hawaiian Electric
We built the field-to-dashboard system behind an island-wide vegetation management program for Hawaiian Electric, in partnership with Big Island Tree Service: programmed Survey123 forms on tablets, trained crews capturing tree data as they trim, and LiDAR of high fire-danger corridors — all flowing into dashboards, 3D viewers, and monthly utility reporting.
- 11 tablets, 20+ crew members collecting standardized field data
- LiDAR documenting problem areas in high fire-danger corridors
- Live dashboards and monthly reporting straight to the utility
Why the ʻāhinahina
Endemic to these islands. At home on the high ground.
The silversword in our logo is the ʻāhinahina — Hawaiian for "very gray," for the silver hairs that let it thrive where conditions are hardest, high on Haleakalā and the mountains of Hawaiʻi Island. It grows nowhere else on Earth. It's where our name comes from, and the standard we hold on every map we deliver.
Our storyCommunity
Mapping in service of Hawaiʻi
We volunteer geospatial work to Hawaiian cultural and nonprofit projects and teach students how their islands are mapped — a small kuleana to give back to the places we measure.
How we give backHave a Hawaiʻi project that needs precise geospatial data?
Tell us about your site and goals and we will recommend the right sensor, workflow, and deliverables.