Aerial · Drone data processing
You ended up with a memory card full of drone images and no real way to turn them into something you can hand to a client. That’s the desk half of what Kendal Ventures does. Send the raw photos from your own flight, or from the operator you hired, and we run them through the same DJI Terra, QGIS, and Blender pipeline behind our own captures, then send back the finished deliverable.
Drone data processing service
Plenty of operators and contractors can put an aircraft in the air and come home with thousands of frames. Turning that capture into a measurable map, a clean 3D model, or a volume your client will pay against is a different job, with a different toolchain and a workstation that runs for hours. Kendal Ventures takes the raw imagery you already have and does exactly that part: the same pipeline we run on our own work, available to you as a standalone processing job. You stay the pilot of record on your capture; we’re the desk that finishes it.
What we build from your imagery
Send us the frames and tell us what you need them to become. Most captures can carry more than one output. The same flight that maps a site can often build its 3D twin and measure its stockpiles too.
A stitched, georeferenced straight-down map of your site, plus bare-earth and surface elevation, contour, and slope models, delivered as planning-grade orthomosaics and GeoTIFFs your own engineer, GIS, or BC Land Surveyor can open and work from. The measurable base layer for site planning, mapping, and area or distance measurement, drawn straight from your capture.
An interactive 3D mesh and a measured point cloud (LAS/LAZ) of the property or site, reconstructed from your frames. It is the same kind of twin we hand over from our own flights, including Gaussian-splat reconstructions through DJI Terra. Orbit a building, pull a section, or hand the cloud to whoever’s modelling next. Delivered as interactive 3D via Sketchfab where it suits the job.
Stockpile volumes and cut-and-fill earthwork worked out from your capture, with a clear breakdown you can hand to an accountant or a client without anyone climbing the pile. RTK-referenced, relative-accuracy measurements for your own planning and reconciliation, tracked capture to capture when you fly a site on a schedule.
Shot a multispectral set? We turn it into relative-vigor index maps (NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, LCI) as a georeferenced map set for you and your agronomist to read. A picture of where vigor falls off and which zones to walk first: observed vigor variability for grower and agronomist review, never a diagnosis or a treatment prescription.
Straight talk: the result is only ever as good as the capture it came from. Overlap, light, altitude, and whether there was ground control on the day all decide what’s possible. We look at your image set first and tell you honestly what it can and can’t become before we start, then quote a flat processing fee for the job. No surprises after the workstation’s already running.
Straight talk on what this is
We build and deliver the data: orthomosaics, terrain and contour models, 3D meshes and point clouds, volumetrics, area and distance measurement, change-detection, counts, and relative-vigor maps. Volume and measurement outputs are RTK-referenced, relative-accuracy figures for your own planning. The orthomosaic and terrain layers are planning-grade mapping for your BC Land Surveyor or engineer to interpret and certify, never a legal or boundary determination.
The multispectral maps are relative-vigor maps: they show observed vigor variability across the field, prepared for your grower and agronomist to interpret. They are not a diagnosis of what’s wrong or a prescription for what to apply. We process and deliver the picture; the licensed call (the boundary, the engineering sign-off, the agronomic decision) stays with your qualified professional. That division is the honest line, and it’s deliberate.
How it runs
Send a sample of the image set first. We look at overlap, ground control, and image quality and tell you what the capture can become, then quote a flat processing fee for the job. From there it’s our workstation and our pipeline: DJI Terra for the reconstruction, QGIS and Blender for the maps and models, and a shared client folder when it’s done. Interactive 3D packages are delivered through streamed browser viewers you open from a link, and multispectral map sets stay in our in-house viewer. No capture day to schedule, no airspace to clear. You already flew it.
Questions & answers
The raw images from your flight, ideally the full set as captured, plus any ground-control or RTK data you logged. Send a sample first and we’ll look at overlap, light, and image quality before you upload everything, so we can tell you what the capture can become and quote a flat processing fee for the job. If you shot a multispectral set, include the calibration-panel frames if you have them.
It depends on the capture. Overlap, altitude, light on the day, and whether there was ground control all decide what’s possible. A tight, well-overlapped flight with ground control builds a far stronger deliverable than a quick once-over. That’s why we look at your image set first and tell you honestly what it can and can’t become before anyone commits. We’d rather set the expectation up front than over-promise on a thin capture.
No, and we’re careful about this line. Volumetrics and measurements are RTK-referenced, relative-accuracy figures for your own planning and reconciliation. The orthomosaic and terrain layers are planning-grade mapping. If you need a legal or boundary determination, an engineering sign-off, or a certified figure, that’s the work of your BC Land Surveyor or engineer to interpret and certify. We build the data they work from, not the licensed conclusion.
No. The multispectral maps are relative-vigor maps (NDVI, NDRE and the rest) showing observed vigor variability across the field. They point to zones worth a closer look and let you compare the field to itself over the season. They are not a diagnosis or a prescription. Reading the crop and deciding what it needs stays your grower’s and agronomist’s call; our maps give them a calibrated view to work from.
Processing is a flat fee for the job, quoted after we’ve seen the image set and agreed what you want built. No hourly meter and no surprises once the workstation is running. Tell us what the capture is and what you need it to become, and you’ll get a single number to approve before we start.
More from the air
Every output we build from your imagery is a deliverable we capture and process on our own jobs across the South Okanagan. If you’d rather we fly it too, that’s where these lead.
Where the orthomosaic, terrain, and cut-fill outputs live when we fly the site ourselves: planning-grade mapping for the whole job.
Agriculture
The full multispectral relative-vigor read (NDVI, NDRE and the rest), prepared for grower and agronomist review.
Where the interactive 3D and point-cloud work goes when it’s a property: explorable twins built from the same reconstruction.
More from the digital studio
Processing your imagery is one side of the Digital studio. The other is the web: hand-coded sites, local search, and Google Business Profile work that puts your business in front of the South Okanagan.
The measurement desk
Surfaces, contours, stockpile volumes, and cut/fill maps come out of Virtual Surveyor, the licensed drone-surveying software at our processing desk. This short video from Virtual Surveyor shows the kind of cut/fill work it does. Our own project screenshots will replace it as jobs complete.
Request a quote
Tell us what you captured and what you need it to become: an orthomosaic, a 3D model, a stockpile volume, a vigor map. Send a sample of the image set and we’ll tell you what it can do, then quote a flat processing fee.
Every inquiry gets a reply within one business day.