Mapping
Kuzuri Kijiji, East Orange
Kuzuri Kijiji — Swahili for Beautiful Village — at 19 Freeway Drive East in East Orange, mapped as a single orthomosaic. Townhouses, parking, access, and the lots around I-280 and the Garden State Parkway in one measured view. Visual mapping of the existing complex, not a certified survey and not a rendering of the redevelopment.
What this capture was for.
Kuzuri Kijiji — Swahili for Beautiful Village — at 19 Freeway Drive East in East Orange, mapped as a single orthomosaic. Townhouses, parking, access, and the lots around I-280 and the Garden State Parkway in one measured view. Visual mapping of the existing complex, not a certified survey and not a rendering of the redevelopment. Captured by Baron Aerial Media — planned around a usable output, not a stock plate.
Kuzuri Kijiji opened in 1973 as a cooperative townhouse community designed by East Orange architect Edward Bowser. The name is Swahili for Beautiful Village. The original 8.2-acre, 247-unit complex sits near the I-280 / Garden State Parkway interchange. The complex has been vacant and fenced for about a decade. This July 6, 2026 dataset maps the existing buildings and the surrounding block (~11.3 acres in the AOI) — it is not a drawing of the approved redevelopment (662 apartments, 1,000+ parking spaces, ~30,000 sf commercial, PILOT adopted December 2025). Processed in DroneDeploy, standard mode, 100% oblique, camera GPS RMSE about 11 ft. Visual and relative-elevation context — not RTK survey control, and not a sealed plat.
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Mission
Photogrammetry / site map — Kuzuri Kijiji, East Orange
Outputs
Orthomosaic + DEM + coverage report
Category
Mapping
Site
Kuzuri Kijiji · 19 Freeway Dr E, East Orange
Opened
1973 · 247 townhouse units on 8.2 acres
Captured
Jul 6, 2026
Frames aligned
123 / 123 (100%)
Coverage
99.7% of AOI
Mapped area
491,250 ft² (~11.3 acres, complex + surroundings)
Ortho GSD
1.24 in/px
DEM GSD
4.98 in/px
Point cloud
5.1 million pts · 10.5 pts/ft²
Sensor
DJI FC3411
How photogrammetry is flown
Kuzuri Kijiji. Four different paths. Four different maps.
Kuzuri Kijiji, East Orange — 19 Freeway Drive East, July 6, 2026, 123 frames, 99.7% coverage, 1.24 in/px. The 1973 cooperative townhouses (Beautiful Village) and the surrounding block, near I-280 and the Garden State Parkway. Switch a pattern to see what nadir, crosshatch, and oblique actually do. The path we flew is labeled.
Kuzuri Kijiji — 100% oblique · live path
Flight pattern
Kuzuri Kijiji — 100% oblique
Kuzuri Kijiji — 19 Freeway Drive East, East Orange, near I-280 and the Garden State Parkway — was flown entirely oblique. Coverage of the AOI was 99.7%. Camera GPS RMSE is about 11 ft. This maps the existing 1973 townhouse complex and surroundings, not the approved 662-unit redevelopment. Useful visual and relative-elevation context. Not RTK survey control, and not a sealed plat.
- Overlap / capture
- 123 frames aligned · Jul 6, 2026
- What you get
- 1.24 in/px ortho · 4.98 in/px DEM · 5.1M pts
Ground texture is the July 6, 2026 orthomosaic of Kuzuri Kijiji, East Orange — a real Baron Aerial Media mapping site, not a generated grid. Switch patterns to see how the path changes what the reconstructor can solve.
Site model
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Orthomosaic draped on the DEM from the same Kuzuri Kijiji capture. Grab the model — it is a 3D packet, not a JPEG that wiggles.
How the mesh is built
Camera stations, not a mystery box.
After capture, each frame is aligned to a 3D model. Numbered spheres are camera stations. The colored overlay is coverage. A mapping packet can include this diagram with the orthomosaic so a GC or planner can see how the model was built. This still is a reconstruction report from Baron Aerial Media processing — a single-building mesh, not the Kuzuri Kijiji ortho above.
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