Ground truth, from 400 feet.
Repeatable, geotagged aerial imagery for forestry, agriculture, watershed, and construction work across Douglas County and southern Oregon. One flight covers what a ground crew needs a week and a lot of exposure to reach.
The data your project needs is usually on the worst ground to walk.
Steep replant units. Active quarry benches. Washed-out culverts halfway up a drainage. A construction site that looked completely different three weeks ago.
Getting a usable visual record of those places has traditionally meant boots on unstable ground, a chartered aircraft, or simply doing without. A drone flying a planned grid gets the same coverage in an afternoon, with a geotagged image set your engineer, forester, or GIS team can actually work from.
I fly it, I organize it, and I hand you the package. No guesswork about what you're getting back.
- Pattern
- Grid, 75/65 overlap
- Altitude AGL
- 200–350 ft
- Coverage / flight day
- Site dependent
- Capture
- Geotagged stills + 4K video
- Ground control
- On request
- Airspace
- LAANC where required
- Delivery
- Organized set + flight logs
What I capture
Six core capture types. Most projects combine two or three — a documented site visit is rarely just stills or just video.
High-Resolution Aerial Imagery
Planned grid flights with consistent altitude and overlap, so the image set is usable downstream rather than just pretty.
- Full-resolution stills, EXIF GPS embedded
- Consistent overlap for photogrammetric processing
- Ground control targets placed on request
Aerial Video & Cinematography
Operations footage, event documentation, and marketing video — including high-frame-rate capture of short-duration events.
- 4K capture, stabilized
- Slow-motion for fast events
- Edited cut or raw clips, your call
Progress & Condition Documentation
The same flight path, the same altitude, on a schedule. Frames that line up month to month instead of drifting.
- Saved, repeatable mission plans
- Weekly, monthly, or milestone cadence
- Timestamped, geotagged visual record
Visual Asset Inspection
Close-range imagery of things that are expensive, slow, or dangerous to reach with a lift, a ladder, or a rope team.
- Roofs, towers, stacks, conveyor lines
- Culverts, bridges, bank erosion
- Solar arrays and utility corridors
Multispectral & Vegetation Imagery
Index imagery that shows vigor differences the eye misses — stress showing up in the data before it shows up in the canopy.
- NDVI / NDRE index imagery
- Stand health and replant verification
- Crop stress and irrigation patterning
Dataset Handoff for Licensed Partners
If your surveyor, engineer, or GIS team is doing the processing, I deliver a capture package built for their pipeline.
- Organized, geotagged image sets
- Flight logs and capture report
- GCP coordinates when they're placed
Straight about where my work ends
Oregon regulates photogrammetric mapping and land surveying as licensed professions. That's a real line, and plenty of drone operators blur it. I don't.
Cascadia View Drone Solutions is an aerial data acquisition and visual documentation provider. I fly the site, capture the imagery, and deliver an organized dataset. When a project needs surveyed elevations, certified volumes, topographic mapping, or anything that carries a professional seal, that work is performed by an Oregon-registered professional — either yours, or one I bring in under contract.
Plain-English version
I capture the pictures and hand you a clean dataset. A licensed professional signs off on measurements. If you're not sure which one your project needs, ask me — I'll tell you honestly, even when the answer is that you don't need me.
Built around how the Umpqua actually works
Roseburg sits in timber country, at the center of a major watershed, surrounded by working farms and active aggregate. The service list reflects that.
Forestry & Timberland
Stand condition, replant verification, road and landing documentation, post-harvest visual record, blowdown and fire-scar assessment imagery.
02 / AgricultureAgriculture & Viticulture
Vineyard and orchard vigor imagery, irrigation pattern checks, stand assessment, and seasonal documentation across the valley floor.
03 / WatershedWatershed & Restoration
Riparian corridor imagery, culvert and fish-passage documentation, bank erosion records, and before/after capture for restoration grants.
04 / ConstructionConstruction & Land Development
Milestone progress documentation, site context imagery for permitting and planning, and marketing footage of finished work.
05 / AggregateAggregate, Quarry & Blasting
Bench and face documentation, stockpile imagery, and pre/post-blast visual records — including high-frame-rate capture of the shot itself.
06 / UtilitiesUtilities & Infrastructure
Corridor and right-of-way imagery, vegetation encroachment documentation, solar array inspection, and tower and structure close-ups.
How a job runs
Four steps, no surprises, fixed price agreed before anyone leaves the ground.
Scope
You send the site location, rough acreage, what you need to see, and when you need it. I come back with a written scope and a fixed quote — not an hourly guess.
Plan
Airspace checked and LAANC authorization filed if the site sits under controlled airspace. Landowner permission confirmed. Flight plan built and saved so it can be repeated.
Fly
On-site capture to the plan. Ground control targets placed and logged if your downstream professional needs them. Weather calls made early, not from the truck.
Deliver
An organized, geotagged package over a secure link, with flight logs and a short capture report describing conditions, equipment, and coverage.
Why clients put a drone on it
Nobody on the bad ground
Unstable benches, steep replant units, and active work areas get documented without sending a person into them. The safest site visit is the one where nobody walks the slope.
One flight, whole site
Coverage that would take a crew days of traversing happens in an afternoon — and comes back as a continuous record instead of scattered notes and phone photos.
Repeatable to the waypoint
Saved missions fly the same path at the same altitude every time. Comparison across months is honest, because the frames actually line up.
A record that holds up
Timestamped, geotagged imagery with flight logs behind it. Useful when a permit, a grant report, an insurance claim, or a dispute needs evidence of site condition on a specific date.
Tell me about the site.
The more detail you send — acreage, access, what you need to see — the tighter the quote comes back. No obligation, and no sales sequence waiting on the other end.