Summerland, BC · Aerial site mapping · Demonstration capture
When the volume is disputed, the change-order is contested, or the pit can't shut down to count piles, one flight gives you a measured, dated record of the whole site. Flown with RTK positioning, tied to NAD83(CSRS) coordinates, and processed by the person who flew it.
2D & 3D mapping · Demonstration capture
Before you commit a dollar, look at the data itself. On the left, the flat top-down orthomosaic you'll draw your plans onto. Zoom into the driveway, the roofline, the ground. On the right, the 3D terrain model siting and drainage decisions get made on, ready to drag and orbit. Both were flown and processed in-house on South Okanagan ground. Load either one and have a look around.
A single continuous orthomosaic of the whole property, georeferenced so distances and areas measure true off the screen. Zoom right down to the driveway, the roofline, and ground detail at 0.3 cm/px delivered pixel detail. This is the flat base layer your planners and contractors draw onto. It is planning-grade mapping that sits alongside your legal land records, never in place of a registered land professional's work.
A creek corridor with steep relief, built from the bare-earth terrain model. This is the surface earthworks, drainage, and siting decisions get worked out on before a machine moves, and you can turn it over in your browser right now.
A web preview of the point-cloud deliverable. Every measured point is sorted into ground and above-ground returns; switch between true colour, classified, and elevation to see it. The DSM and DTM surfaces and the volumes all come off this dataset, and you get it as LAS/LAZ to hand your own engineer, so it drops straight into Civil 3D, Trimble Business Center, or Carlson.
Deliverables
These aren't pictures, they're measurable maps. Every product below is RTK-referenced, so a distance, an area, a grade, or a volume pulled straight off the data is a number the PM, the estimator, the pit operator, and the planner can all work from.
Lay out the site without a tape measure or a site visit. A single continuous top-down image of the whole property, georeferenced so distances and areas measure true straight off the screen. It is the base reference your planners, developers, and contractors draw onto.
For planners · developers · contractors. You receive: georeferenced GeoTIFF orthomosaic · shared client folder
Hand your designer the lay of the land in a form they can build on. Contour lines and topographic data pulled from the elevation model, formatted to drop straight into a planning set: topographic data for your engineer to work from, not engineering we perform.
For planners · designers · contractors. You receive: contour data · topographic reference
Know the slope and the fall before you grade. A digital surface model of everything as it sits (piles, equipment, structures), plus a bare-earth terrain model stripped down for design comparison. The two surfaces are what slope, drainage, and cut-and-fill work get built on.
For earthworks · drainage · site teams. You receive: DSM · DTM · georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS)
Settle the volume question without putting anyone on the pile or closing the pit. Measured volumes calculated from the 3D model against a base you define, with a per-pile breakdown, so your estimator has a consistent figure to hold against scale tickets month over month.
For gravel pits · aggregate · contractors. You receive: cut/fill volumes (CSV) with grid/zone breakdown · per-pile inventory · model + screenshots
Show exactly how much material moved, and which way. A surface-to-surface comparison off the bare-earth model that documents volume in and out between two captures, where it came from and where it went, straight from the data, no estimating.
For earthworks · site supervisors. You receive: cut-and-fill documentation · before/after surfaces
Close out the phase with dated proof of what was actually built. A georeferenced top-down record captured against the plan, overlaid to flag built-versus-planned: visual documentation for the file, the handover, and the next crew in.
For contractors · developers · owners. You receive: as-built orthomosaic · design-overlay comparison · visual documentation
Update the board, track the subs, and back the draw from one flight. The same site flown on a schedule from the same vantage, each capture lined up with the last: a running, dated record the super, the owner, and the lender can all work from.
For developers · municipalities · contractors. You receive: recurring orthomosaics · dated progress set · shared folder
The volume isn't read off a photo. It's calculated from the 3D model the capture builds, against a base surface you define. Pick the toe of the pile and the model returns the cubic metres above it. The surfaces, contours, volumes, and cut/fill maps are produced in Virtual Surveyor, licensed professional measurement software we run. Fly the same pile next month and the comparison holds, because both numbers come from the same kind of model. Every volumetrics and cut-and-fill figure is a photogrammetric estimate, RTK-referenced with relative accuracy stated, not a legal BCLS survey: repeatable site data for planning and tracking, prepared for your qualified professional's review where a certified figure is required.
All from one flight
A single mapping flight feeds every layer below, georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS) and handed over in a plain shared folder that opens straight in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, QGIS, or ArcGIS. Take what the job calls for; the accordion explains what each one is for.
These build on the core deliverables above: the orthomosaic, DSM / DTM surfaces, contours, classified point cloud, and 3D site model. It's all planning-grade mapping, georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS): reference layers for planning and layout, never a certified deliverable.
Terrain & analysis maps. Slope classification colours terrain by steepness; sun-exposure (aspect) by the way each slope faces; hillshade & terrain texture makes every rise, gully, and bench read under a plan set; elevation cross-sections give a side-on profile along any line for fencing, trails, and grading; area, distance & slope reads pull the everyday numbers a planning conversation runs on (the area of a pad or clearing, the distance along a line, the grade of a face or bank) straight off the georeferenced capture; canopy / structure height is a geometric height map for clearance checks; the print-ready site-plan composite lays ortho, contours, hillshade, and a legend into one sheet.
Formats & add-ons. The core deliverables are handed over in GeoTIFF, DXF, CSV, LAS/LAZ, OBJ/GLB, a KMZ Google Earth overlay, an offline GeoPDF / Avenza field map with live position, and COG · CoPC cloud-streaming you open from a link. Add-ons: change-detection quantifies how much moved between two dates and which way; corridor & fence-line maps a linear right-of-way with station cross-sections; laser reference distance & height is a planning-grade figure from the aircraft's rangefinder, not a certified dimension.
Commercial asset documentation · Visual only
Building envelopes, rooftop units, the high parts of a structure that normally mean a lift, a ladder, or a rope. Kendal Ventures captures all of it from the air in one pass: organized, dated, high-resolution imagery, with nobody leaving the ground. You hold a visual record the owner and their qualified professional can sit down and read. It documents what's there; it never stands in for a structural or engineering call.
It's visual documentation: an organized, dated, high-resolution image set of the building envelope and exterior as captured, in a shared client folder for you and your qualified professional to read. It records what's there at a level of detail you can zoom right into. It isn't a condition verdict and it never replaces a qualified professional's call. We say exactly that, up front.
For the roofline specifically, we also capture commercial roof & building-envelope visual inspection imagery. That's close-up condition imagery for the owner and their roofer to review.
Beyond mapping · On demand
Sometimes you just need close eyes on something high, or a live look at the site from your desk. The Matrice 4E's 7× optical / 16× hybrid zoom pulls crisp, dated detail of a façade, tower, or span from well back: a visual record for the owner and their qualified contractor or engineer to review, never a structural or condition assessment. The same aircraft runs daytime monitoring passes you can watch live, with on-the-fly counting of vehicles, materials, and site activity.
Public sector & community
Planning, rezoning support, asset records, public communication: much of what a municipality, Regional District, or First Nation needs documenting calls for accurate, dated imagery, not a registered land professional's stamp. That's squarely Kendal's lane. The same flight that maps a worksite documents municipal assets and parks, bylaw and site files, First Nations land and cultural-site 3D, or a flood corridor, georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS) and handed over in a shared folder. For First Nations work, the drone is a documentation tool under the community's direction, and the community stays steward and decision-maker.
One flight · The whole picture
The build, the slope it sits on, the access road, the ground falling away to the corridor below: one flight reads all of it as a single dated, georeferenced record. Flown with RTK positioning and processed by the same person who flew it.
Environment & FireSmart
Wildfire risk, vegetation, and water corridors touch nearly every Okanagan site and community. Kendal captures organized, georeferenced baseline imagery of all of it (wildfire fuel and defensible-space mapping, invasive-plant and forest-health monitoring, shoreline, creek-corridor, wetland, and water baselines), the dated visual starting point FireSmart, planning, and stewardship work gets built on, delivered as baseline data for the qualified professionals who carry those files.
How a project runs
Every construction, commercial, and public job runs the same five steps, from the scope call to the folder in your hands, and one person flies it, processes it, and delivers it, so there's a single point of contact start to finish. We tell you the turnaround up front; most deliverables land in a few business days.
Questions & answers
They're measurements taken from the 3D model the capture builds, computed against a base or design surface you define. Because the site is captured the same way each time, the numbers are repeatable and compare cleanly flight to flight: dependable figures for planning, stockpile tracking, and cut-and-fill documentation, with the volumetrics boundary stated plainly in the deliverables section above.
Yes. Municipal asset and parks imagery, site and bylaw documentation, First Nations land and cultural-site 3D records, and regional flood mapping all run on the same in-house capture-and-processing workflow. Everything is organized, dated, georeferenced, and handed over in a shared folder on the community's terms.
Georeferenced orthomosaics and surfaces in NAD83(CSRS), contour and topographic data, LAS point clouds and mesh exports on request, organized image sets, and interactive 3D you open in a browser, all handed over in a shared client folder. See the full questions & answers for turnaround, data ownership, and pricing.
Once, or on a schedule
Every job on this page can be a single visit, or, flown on a cadence you set, the same capture becomes an ongoing program: same site, same vantage, same workflow, each pass lined up with the last so the comparison holds. An active worksite turns into a dated record you can scrub through: earthworks, material moved, where the job stands against where it should be. The 45° oblique reads the way people do; the nadir set behind it carries the measurements. For municipalities, Regional Districts, parks departments, and large estates and strata, public ground and public assets get documented on schedule, organized and dated in a shared folder.
The same worksite flown on your schedule, each capture aligned to the last. You get a running, side-by-side change record of earthworks, material moved, and how the job stands against where it should be, all in one shared folder you can scrub through over time.
Stockpile and aggregate volumes captured on a monthly, quarterly, or year-end cadence. These are inventory and management volumes pulled the same way every time, so the numbers track cleanly pile to pile and period to period as you manage the yard or landfill cell.
Scheduled orthomosaic and oblique capture of parks, trail networks, and public works yards. It's a current, dated picture for facilities, recreation, and capital-planning teams, with each pass laid against the last as a clean change record.
RGB and multispectral capture of street trees, park canopy, and estate grounds. It's a dated baseline for an urban-tree and canopy inventory and count, comparable season over season for parks departments and large estates and strata to plan and track from.
One visit or an ongoing program, your call on either.
More from the air program
The same RTK capture and in-house pipeline, pointed at a different kind of property.
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It starts with a short scoping conversation: what you need decided, what we'd fly, exactly what lands in your folder, and how soon. You'll have the plan and the timeline before anything leaves the ground.
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