Blom is a European service provider within acquisition, processing and modelling of geographical information.

Blom maintains European databases with collections of map, images and models.

With particular focus on online services, Blom provides data and services to customers in government, enterprise and consumer markets and enables partners to create applications using Blom’s databases, location-based services and navigation systems.

[2] The primary business areas are aerial photography, laser scanning (LiDAR), mapping and modelling, databases and database applications, GIS services and online map services (BlomURBEX).

Blom uses large format cameras mounted in twin-engined fixed-winged aircraft or rotor wing helicopters assisted by Global Positioning System (GPS) with Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) to perform oblique and vertical aerial photography.