Capture, organized for what happens next
Every deliverable below is imagery or video. What makes it worth paying for is that it's flown to a plan, logged, and handed over in a form your team — or your engineer — can immediately use.
High-Resolution Aerial Imagery
Autonomous grid flights at fixed altitude with consistent forward and side overlap, producing an image set that holds together as a dataset rather than a folder of nice shots.
Overlap and altitude are chosen for what the imagery has to do afterward. A quick visual record and a set destined for photogrammetric processing are flown differently, and getting that wrong means re-flying the site.
Typical deliverables
- Full-resolution stills with embedded EXIF GPS
- Consistent overlap for downstream processing
- Nadir and oblique passes as the site requires
- Ground control targets placed and logged on request
- Flight logs and a written capture report
- Organized delivery over a secure download link
- Pattern
- Grid / double-grid
- Forward overlap
- 75–85%
- Side overlap
- 65–75%
- Altitude AGL
- 200–350 ft typical
- Format
- JPEG + RAW on request
- Geotagging
- EXIF GPS, all frames
- Ground control
- Optional, coordinates logged
Aerial Video & Cinematography
Operations footage, event documentation, and marketing video — from a straightforward site orbit to high-frame-rate capture of events that are over in under two seconds.
Operations & Event Documentation
Footage of work as it actually happens: equipment in motion, material moving, sequences that are hard to describe in a report and obvious in ten seconds of video.
- 4K, stabilized
- Multiple angles per event
- High frame rate for fast sequences
Marketing & Promotional
The reveal shot for a finished project, a property, or a facility. Cut to length for web and social, or delivered raw for your own editor.
- Edited cut or raw clips
- Vertical crops for social
- Licensed music on request
Blast & Short-Duration Events
Some things happen once, fast, and can't be repeated for a second take. Those get planned like their own mission: standoff distance, framing, and redundancy worked out in advance.
- Pre-planned standoff and framing
- Slow-motion capture
- Pre- and post-event site imagery
- Mission plan
- Saved, reflown identically
- Cadence
- Weekly / monthly / milestone
- Altitude
- Locked across visits
- Waypoints
- Identical each flight
- Naming
- Date-stamped, consistent
- Archive
- Retained for project duration
Progress & Condition Documentation
The value of a time series is entirely in whether the frames line up. Shot from a slightly different spot each visit, it's a scrapbook. Flown from saved waypoints, it's a record.
Mission plans are saved after the first flight and reflown exactly, so month three sits on top of month one. Useful for owner reporting, draw requests, permit compliance, dispute documentation, and simply knowing what the site looked like before something changed.
Commonly used for
- Construction milestone reporting
- Reclamation and restoration progress
- Pre-work site condition baselines
- Seasonal change across a growing cycle
- Post-event condition records
- Grant and permit documentation
Visual Asset Inspection
Close-range imagery of assets that are expensive, slow, or genuinely dangerous to reach. You get detailed pictures without scheduling a lift, a climb crew, or a shutdown.
Structures & Roofs
Roof surfaces, flashing, stacks, and elevations documented at close range from a safe standoff, without anyone on the deck.
Towers & Vertical Assets
Communications towers, silos, and stacks imaged from top to base, at angles a ground-based camera can't reach.
Culverts, Bridges & Banks
Stream crossings, fish passage structures, abutments, and eroding bank sections — frequently in places with no road access.
Solar & Utility Corridors
Array surfaces, right-of-way vegetation encroachment, and line corridor documentation across long linear assets.
Scope note
Inspection deliverables are visual documentation — detailed imagery of observed conditions. Engineering assessment, structural determination, and any professional opinion on that imagery stays with your licensed engineer or qualified inspector. I'll get them a much better look at the asset than they'd otherwise have.
Multispectral & Vegetation Imagery
Index imagery built from near-infrared and red-edge bands, showing vigor differences across a stand or block that aren't visible in a normal photograph.
Plants under stress change how they reflect light well before the canopy looks wrong to the eye. Index imagery makes that visible as a map of relative vigor — so scouting time goes to the areas that actually need it instead of the whole block.
Applications
- Replant survival and stocking assessment
- Stand vigor and decline patterning
- Vineyard and orchard block variability
- Irrigation coverage and failure patterns
- Crop stress detection ahead of visible symptoms
- Riparian and restoration planting establishment
- NDVI
- General vigor
- NDRE
- Dense canopy vigor
- Bands
- Multispectral capture
- Calibration
- Reflectance panel
- Output
- Index imagery, georeferenced
- Comparison
- Repeat flights, same plan
Dataset Handoff for Licensed Partners
If your surveyor, engineer, or GIS team is doing the processing, the capture package is built to drop straight into their pipeline.
Plenty of firms have the software and the licensed staff to process imagery — what they don't have is someone local who can be on a site tomorrow and fly it correctly the first time.
I work as the capture side of that arrangement: your professional specifies overlap, altitude, and control requirements, I execute the flight, and you get back a documented dataset with everything needed to process it and everything needed to defend how it was collected.
Package contents
- Geotagged image set, consistently named
- Flight logs per mission
- Capture report: date, conditions, equipment, altitude, overlap
- GCP coordinates and target photos where placed
- Raw video files where captured
- Secure download link, retained through project close
Quoted per site, not per price list
A fifteen-acre construction site with road access and a two-hundred-acre replant unit up a logging spur are not the same job, even if the flight time looks similar. Access, terrain, airspace, deliverable format, and turnaround all move the number.
So there's no rate card here. Send the details, get a fixed written quote back — usually within one business day, and always before anything is committed.
What moves a quote
Total acreage or linear distance · drive time from Roseburg · site access and staging · terrain and tree cover · controlled airspace and authorization requirements · ground control requirements · deliverable format · turnaround · one-time versus recurring.