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Flagstaff, Arizona Drone mapping & aerial inspection

From shingle to summit, one flight.

One aircraft over your whole property — roof and facade inspections, thermal passes, construction progress, stockpile volumes, and full site maps stitched from the air.

High-altitude aerial view of Flagstaff's mesas, pine forest and peaks
San Francisco Peaks & the mesa country · site-wide mapping

Flight work

What lands after the flight.

Six surveys, flown on their own or stacked into a single visit. Every one ends in something you can use — a map, a model, a set of measurements, or a thermal frame.

  1. 01

    Orthomosaic site mapping

    Overlapping flight lines stitched into one accurate, measurable view of the whole property.

  2. 02

    Roof & facade inspections

    Close passes over shingles, parapets, flashing and cladding — read without a ladder or a rope.

  3. 03

    Construction progress imaging

    Repeat passes from the same lines, so each stage of the build lines up with the last.

  4. 04

    Stockpile volume surveys

    Fly the pile and take the number — volume and area measured from the aerial surface.

  5. 05

    Thermal imaging

    An infrared pass over roofs and walls, showing heat loss, moisture and hot spots.

  6. 06

    3D modeling

    Site imagery processed into a model your team can orbit, measure and share.

Aerial view of an active construction site with stockpiles and framing
Construction progress imaging · repeat passes
Infrared thermal aerial image of a residential roof showing warm spots
Thermal imaging · envelope heat loss

Flight bands

One drone. Every scale of your site.

The height we fly decides what the camera can measure. Four bands cover a roofline, a building envelope, a full site grid — and the repeat passes that track them over time.

Every band sits inside the FAA's 400 ft AGL ceiling for small drones.

15–40 ft AGL

Roof & facade inspections

Close passes over shingles, parapets, flashing, vents and cladding — the detail a ladder-and-binoculars check misses, imaged with nobody leaving the ground.

Close range
100–150 ft AGL

Thermal imaging

An infrared sweep of the whole envelope, showing heat loss, moisture and hot spots across rooflines and walls.

Envelope
300–400 ft AGL

Orthomosaic mapping & 3D models

Overlapping flight lines stitched into one accurate, measurable image of the site — plus a model your team can orbit, measure and hand on.

Site grid
Repeat same lines, every visit

Construction progress imaging & stockpile volumes

Flown from the same lines each visit, so progress lines up frame to frame and gravel, mulch and spoil piles are measured from the aerial surface.

Repeat
Drone hovering inches above an asphalt-shingled roof
Roof pass · 20 ft AGL

Process

Booked to delivered, in four moves.

A short scope call decides the bands and sensors. The rest is planned around your site and the weather, and ends with data your team can open and use.

  1. 01

    Scope call

    Tell us the site and the question behind it — a suspect roof, a moving construction schedule, a pile that needs measuring. That decides the bands and sensors.

  2. 02

    Flight plan

    We review the site on a map, settle the launch points and altitude bands, and agree a weather window that works for you.

  3. 03

    Flight day

    We fly the site at the heights the job needs — overlapping stills, thermal frames and video, captured in one organized visit.

  4. 04

    Processing & handover

    Imagery becomes a map, a model or a set of measurements, checked over and sent to you with the views your team asked for.

Drone pilot launching a quadcopter from a gravel pad at golden hour

Not sure which survey you need? Describe the property and we'll tell you which flight bands it takes to answer the question.

Start with a site survey

Book the flight

Book a site survey.

Tell us where the site is and what you need to see. We'll come back with the flight bands, the weather window and exactly what you'll have in hand afterwards.

  • One site or several — we'll plan them into a single trip.
  • Roofs, facades, construction sites, stockpiles and open land.
  • Flagstaff, Arizona and the surrounding high country.

We'll reply with the flight plan and the next available weather window for your site.