Balai Teknik Sabo Uses BETA-UAS OMNIBE LiDAR for Survey, Modeling, and Disaster Mitigation
- BETA-UAS
- Sep 17, 2025
- 4 min read
BETA-UAS has been trusted by Balai Teknik Sabo, Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works, through the procurement of an OMNIBE unit equipped with a LiDAR sensor. The procurement was carried out through PT Oseanland Survei Indonesia as a partner in delivering UAV-based survey technology.
For BETA-UAS, this trust represents an important step in the use of locally developed UAV technology for technical work in the water resources sector, especially in areas that require precise topographic data, faster mapping, and a more detailed understanding of field conditions.
OMNIBE is a fixed-wing VTOL drone developed by BETA-UAS for mapping, monitoring, and inspection missions. Its VTOL capability allows the aircraft to take off and land vertically without a runway, while its fixed-wing configuration provides longer endurance and wider area coverage compared to conventional multirotor drones.
In this configuration, OMNIBE is integrated with a LiDAR sensor, allowing it to capture detailed elevation data and surface models, including in areas with dense vegetation cover.
Supporting Survey and Sediment Control Infrastructure Planning
For Balai Teknik Sabo, accurate topographic data is an important foundation for the analysis, planning, and evaluation of sediment control infrastructure.
With LiDAR integration, OMNIBE can support survey work across river areas, watersheds, slopes, sediment-prone zones, and other locations that require detailed elevation mapping.
The resulting data can be used for various technical needs, including sediment control infrastructure planning, land morphology analysis, monitoring of area changes, and the development of surface models for further engineering planning.
Relevant for Disaster Modeling and Mitigation
Beyond technical survey work, OMNIBE LiDAR is also highly relevant for disaster modeling and mitigation.
In areas prone to flooding, landslides, volcanic activity, sediment flows, or river morphology changes, LiDAR data can provide a more detailed picture of surface conditions. This information can become an important input for hazard modeling, risk analysis, mitigation planning, and data-driven decision-making.
For technical institutions, the ability to obtain accurate field data quickly is becoming increasingly important, especially in areas that are difficult to access or require faster response.
Surveying Areas with Dense Vegetation
One of the key advantages of LiDAR is its ability to support surveys in areas covered by vegetation.
In camera-based mapping, the ground surface is often difficult to observe when it is covered by trees, shrubs, or other vegetation. With LiDAR, some laser points can pass through gaps in the vegetation and provide better information about the actual ground elevation.
This capability is especially relevant for mapping rivers, upstream watershed areas, slopes, hilly terrain, and regions with heavy vegetation cover. Combined with OMNIBE’s wide-area coverage capability, data acquisition can be carried out more efficiently, particularly across large areas that are difficult to survey manually.
Local Technology with 56.79% TKDN
OMNIBE is one of BETA-UAS’ UAV products with a Domestic Component Level, or TKDN, of 56.79%.
For BETA-UAS, this TKDN achievement is not just an administrative number. It reflects our commitment to continuously building UAV technology capability in Indonesia, from platform design, system integration, manufacturing, and testing to operational support.
The trust from Balai Teknik Sabo shows that local technology can play a real role in supporting government technical needs, particularly in sectors that require reliable survey, monitoring, and data-based mapping solutions.
Collaboration in UAV-Based Survey Technology
The use of OMNIBE LiDAR by Balai Teknik Sabo also reflects the importance of collaboration between local technology developers, procurement partners, and government technical institutions.
Through PT Oseanland Survei Indonesia, the OMNIBE LiDAR unit can support modern survey needs that increasingly require data that is fast, detailed, and ready to be processed for various technical analyses.
For BETA-UAS, collaborations like this are important to ensure that local UAV technology does not stop as a product, but is actually used to solve real field challenges.
Appreciation
BETA-UAS would like to express its appreciation to Balai Teknik Sabo, Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works, for the trust given in the use of local UAV technology.
We also extend our appreciation to PT Oseanland Survei Indonesia for its role in the procurement process of this OMNIBE LiDAR unit.
We hope OMNIBE LiDAR will deliver real value in supporting survey work, sediment control infrastructure planning, disaster modeling and mitigation, surveys in densely vegetated areas, and other technical field requirements.
For BETA-UAS, every trust like this becomes a strong motivation to keep developing Indonesian drone technology that is not only competitive, but also genuinely useful for real field operations.
About OMNIBE
OMNIBE is an electric fixed-wing VTOL UAV developed by BETA-UAS for mapping, monitoring, and inspection missions. With flexible payload integration, OMNIBE can support various applications, including LiDAR mapping, RGB mapping, corridor monitoring, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, and wide-area survey missions.
About BETA-UAS
BETA-UAS is an Indonesian unmanned aircraft systems company developing drone platforms and aerial data solutions for industry, agriculture, infrastructure, water resources, energy, mining, and government applications. Through locally developed UAV technology, BETA-UAS is committed to supporting field operations that are more efficient, precise, data-driven, and scalable.
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