SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) -- A century-old chapel in the heart of Sioux Falls has been posing for its close-up.

A drone, equipped with remote sensing equipment, has performed a flyover of the Glidden Memorial Chapel, located in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

The technology, called LiDAR, uses light and radar to map out every inch of the building, inside and out. It's the first phase of what will be an extensive makeover of the historic building.

The chapel also shares a technological tie to the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

This is a virtual blueprint of the 101-year-old Glidden Memorial Chapel.

"It gives you dimensions, it gives you space, you can ask the machine to take you upstairs or onto the next side to go 50-feet above and see what it's like from that view," Doug Pederson of Pederso

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