CHC Navigation
CHCNAV ViLi i100
Visual-LiDAR RTK rover: keeps positioning without GNSS to ±5 cm over 20 m, outputs LAS with no post-processing.
Channels1,892No-GNSS±5 cm to 20 mLiDAR96-line
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Serving Denver, Colorado
Buy survey & mapping equipment in Denver.
Survey-grade GNSS receivers, mobile mapping scanners, and UAV LiDAR for surveyors, civil contractors, and AEC firms across Denver and the Front Range.
Serving Aurora · Lakewood · Thornton · Arvada · Westminster · Centennial and the wider Denver metropolitan area and the Colorado Front Range.
What we supply in Denver
Equipment for the Denver metropolitan area and the Colorado Front Range
Handheld LiDAR Handheld LiDAR scanners for mobile mapping
Handheld LiDAR SLAM scanners let you walk a site and capture it as a measurable point cloud, indoors or out, without satellite reception and without pre-placed targets.
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GNSS / RTK Survey GNSS & RTK rovers
Multi-constellation IMU-RTK rovers and base stations built for survey and construction, with centimetre accuracy and tilt compensation.
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Mapping Drones · UAV LiDAR · DJI Drones for surveying & mapping, UAV LiDAR & photogrammetry
Professional mapping UAVs and LiDAR/photogrammetry payloads that collect survey-grade data in far fewer field days.
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3D Laser Scanners Terrestrial 3D laser scanners
Tripod-based laser scanners for millimetre-grade reality capture, scan-to-BIM, and existing-conditions documentation.
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What Denver crews tend to buy
Mixed urban, transit and terrain work rewards capture that keeps working when GNSS drops out.
CHC Navigation
CHCNAV RS7
Handheld LiDAR SLAM scanner for fast as-built and BIM reality capture.
LiDAR64-channelRangeup to 40 mRel. accuracy< 1 cm
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CHC Navigation
CHCNAV X500
Rotor mapping drone: 5 kg payload, 52 min with a 2 kg payload, LiDAR-ready.
Payload5 kgFlight52 min at 2 kgWorkflowPPK / RTK
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Denver workflows
What the work looks like here
Front Range crews cover an unusually wide range of conditions. RTD is rebuilding its oldest light-rail assets across the downtown loop through to 2027, Denver International is running a multi-part capital programme, and corridor and terrain work continues west into the mountains. Handheld SLAM handles the station and structure interiors; UAV and GNSS handle the corridors and terrain.
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Local market
The Denver market
Denver combines dense urban redevelopment with heavy civil, transit and mountain terrain work, and crews routinely move between all three. Transit reconstruction, airport expansion, and corridor work across the Front Range mean the same firm may be scanning a station platform one week and flying terrain the next.
Local fit
Set up for how you work in Colorado
Works with your Colorado correction source
Our GNSS receivers speak RTCM and NTRIP and connect to the NOAA CORS network and the commercial real-time networks Front Range crews run, as well as a base-and-rover setup. We have not found a public statewide Colorado RTN, so confirm your correction source and we verify compatibility before you buy.
Front Range airspace and Part 107
Commercial drone work in the US falls under FAA Part 107. Denver International, Centennial and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan airports put much of the metro in controlled airspace where LAANC authorization applies, and mountain terrain adds density-altitude considerations for aircraft performance. Check current requirements with the FAA before operating.
The datum trap in Colorado
Denver publishes its own low-distortion projection, CCD_LOCAL, with a scale factor at origin of 1.00025403 on NAD83(1992), and encourages its use on city projects. That scale factor is the mile-high elevation correction. A crew working in unmodified Colorado Central State Plane will be short by roughly one foot in every 3,900 feet against Denver ground control. Colorado also legislated for the modernised system: SB25-019 took effect 6 August 2025 and clears the way for SPCS2022.
Correction networks operating in this market
We confirm which network you run and verify the receiver configuration against it before quoting. We do not publish mountpoints or credentials, and we do not claim compatibility we have not checked.
Sources: City and County of Denver survey control and CCD_LOCAL · Colorado SB25-019, State Plane modernization · Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado, geodetic resources · Colorado State Board of Licensure (DORA)
Nearby markets
We supply the rest of the United States too
Same equipment, same support. Correction networks and airspace rules change by jurisdiction, so each market has its own page.
Florida Miami Survey equipment in Miami → New York New York Survey equipment in New York → Texas Dallas Survey equipment in Dallas → Texas Houston Survey equipment in Houston →
Somewhere else in Canada or the United States? Tell us where you are working and we will confirm shipping, support, and lead time for your region.
FAQ
Buying survey gear in Denver
Why does Denver publish its own coordinate projection?
Denver sits high enough that unmodified State Plane grid distances differ noticeably from ground distances. The city publishes a low-distortion projection called CCD_LOCAL with a scale factor at origin of 1.00025403, which corrects for that elevation. Working in unmodified Colorado Central instead puts you out by roughly one foot in every 3,900 feet against city control.
Which datum is Denver survey control published on?
The city publishes its CCD_LOCAL control on NAD83(1992), not NAD83(2011), which is a genuine trap for crews importing control from national sources. Confirm which realization your project requires before combining datasets.
How does support work if you are not based in Denver?
We do not run a Denver storefront. We supply and support GNSS receivers, scanners and drones for Front Range crews from within North America, with genuine equipment, the full manufacturer warranty, and service arranged through the manufacturer network.
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Get a quote in Denver.
Tell us your workflow and correction network and a ScanSupply specialist gets back to you, typically within one business day, with pricing, configuration options, and availability for the Denver metropolitan area and the Colorado Front Range.
- Local correction-network & workflow help
- Genuine equipment, warranty, and support
- Spec sheets, demos, and financing on request
Who you are dealing with
The people specifying your configuration have run this equipment on real sites, not just sold it. That is why a quote comes back with a recommendation and a reason, rather than a line item.
- Authorized CHC Navigation dealer for Canada and the United States.
- North American stock, so availability is a real answer and not a transatlantic guess.
- Every specification sourced. Where a figure is a manufacturer claim under their own test conditions, we say so.