Fifteen Years on Mining Sites. Now Flying Over Them.
Lurid X is run by Bill Wiley. Before the drones, Bill spent fifteen years on industrial mining sites — laborer to supervisor — and taught MSHA safety courses. That's why a Lurid X flight starts with your gate-in, your hazard briefing and an agreed exclusion zone, and ends with a deliverable you can actually use.
The company uses modern drone technology to capture accurate visual information while minimizing operational disruption and improving access to difficult or hazardous areas.
- FAA Part 107
- $2M liability insurance
- 15+ years mining operations
- MSHA instructor background
- Ask us about our safety record
- Designed and built our own software, Lurid X Studio™
What flies, what corrects it, what processes it.
- Aircraft
- DJI Matrice 4E with mechanical-shutter mapping camera and 56× zoom for inspections
- Positioning
- D-RTK 3 GNSS base with network RTK corrections
- Processing
- DroneDeploy builds the map: the flight becomes an orthomosaic and a 3D surface model. Lurid X Studio™, our own software, measures every figure from those files, cross-checks the volumes against DroneDeploy's, and writes the numbered report.
Before, During, After.
- Site induction and gate-in with your supervisor
- Flight plan built around site access and hazard awareness
- NOTAM and airspace check
- Exclusion zones agreed before the aircraft leaves the case
- RTK-flown from a D-RTK 3 base
- Ground control set where the job needs it
- No production stoppage — we work around your operation
- Deliverables typically within 48 hours
- Accuracy stated in the report
- Client data never used in marketing without scrubbing
The communities and professions we work alongside.
Lurid X supports the communities it works in and the professions it works alongside. The company is a Business Member of Local First Arizona and a member of the Graham County Chamber of Commerce; a Silver Member of the Mining and Minerals Education Foundation, which funds mineral education across Arizona; a Business Member of the Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association; and a Sustaining Member of the Arizona Professional Land Surveyors (APLS).
Sustaining membership is a supporting category that funds that society's scholarship, education and advocacy work. It is not a professional registration. Lurid X is not a land surveying firm and does not practice land surveying; its deliverables are photogrammetric, and where a licensed survey is required Lurid X works alongside your surveyor.
