Aerial · Kelowna & West Kelowna · Demonstration capture
I'm based in Summerland, a short drive south of the bridge, and I fly Kelowna sites myself. The three jobs I do most are below.
South-Okanagan based · Central-Okanagan ready
Kendal Ventures is based in Summerland, a short drive south of the bridge, so a Kelowna or West Kelowna site is flown locally and processed in-house. Wine country, a busy development sector, commercial property, and lakeside homes sit within a few kilometres of each other here.
The person who captures your site also processes the data and walks you through it: one point of contact, start to finish.
The same RTK capture serves a development site, a vineyard block, and an estate listing, so a winery with a build underway gets it all in one trip.
Much of Kelowna sits in controlled airspace. Every flight is planned and authorized through NAV Drone before capture day.
What we fly in Kelowna
Kelowna and West Kelowna don't fit one mould. In a single week the work can run from earthworks to a vineyard block to a luxury listing.
Hand your engineer a measured base map and a point cloud they can open in Civil 3D, or reconcile a stockpile without anyone on the pile. Planning-grade orthomosaics, bare-earth surfaces, cut/fill volumetrics, and dated progress capture, all delivered in NAD83(CSRS).
Wineries & vineyards
One Mavic 3 Multispectral flight shows the relative-vigor differences across the block, strong to weak, for you and your agronomist to review before harvest: five-index vigor maps, plant counts, and a plain-language report for grower and agronomist review.
A buyer can walk the property in their browser before they visit: a 3D model, a flythrough, stills, and short vertical clips, quoted to what the listing needs.
The Central Okanagan market
Kelowna and West Kelowna hold more building, more wine, and more high-value real estate than anywhere else in the valley. Each carries a job the air settles faster, cheaper, or safer than the ground.
One flight returns a current base map, a bare-earth surface for grading, and a stockpile number you can reconcile against the books.
Best for: developers · site contractors · gravel pits · municipalities
The same multispectral flight that ranks vigor across the vineyard also builds the estate tour for the tasting room.
Best for: wineries · growers · viticulture consultants
From a hillside home to a retail, hospitality, or industrial block, we capture high-resolution drone roof inspection imagery from above: organized, dated, for the owner and their qualified roofer to review. Visual imagery only, never a structural, engineering, or insurance assessment.
Best for: homeowners · property owners & managers · roofers & contractors
An interactive twin, a cinematic flythrough, golden-hour stills, and vertical cuts, for the lakefront, hillside, and acreage listings that compete on presentation.
Best for: agents · estate owners · developers marketing new builds
Every job on this page is available once, or as an ongoing program: recurring progress monitoring, season-long crop scouting, or periodic property records.
Live proof · Our own demonstration captures
Everything below is the company's own demonstration capture, shown exactly as a client would receive it.
Our own Summerland demonstration capture: a residential property at 0.3 cm/px delivered detail across 5.3 acres, flown at 100% RTK FIX, plus a creek-corridor terrain model. Your result is quoted to your site.
A demonstration vineyard mapped across NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, and LCI: relative-vigor maps for grower and agronomist review, with a live viewer you can open yourself.
A residential property rebuilt as an interactive 3D twin from 6,052 images: orbit the house and grounds in your browser. The same tooling can build a Kelowna listing or a winery tour.
None of it is presented as completed Central Okanagan client work.
Airspace · The honest part
Much of Kelowna falls within controlled airspace around Kelowna International Airport (YLW). A flight can still happen; it has to be planned properly. Every flight is authorized through NAV Drone before the aircraft leaves the ground, and any additional authorization is sorted at the scope call.
Sites closer to the airport carry tighter conditions, so the plan is checked against current airspace rules and built around them from the start.
Captures are flown by a Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot working to a documented standard: RTK positioning on every flight, and ground control placed where the job calls for it.
Questions & answers
Both. Kendal Ventures is based in Summerland, and the Central Okanagan is part of our regular service area: Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland, and the benches in between.
Yes, with the right planning. Much of Kelowna sits in controlled airspace around YLW, so every flight is planned and authorized through NAV Drone before we fly. Additional authorization gets identified at the scope call.
All three. The same workflow handles construction site mapping, vineyard crop-health mapping, and estate media, so a winery with a build underway can get everything from one capture trip.
Flights are flown locally and processed on our own machines by the pilot who captured the site. Turnaround is set at the scope call, and you have a date in writing before we fly.
Explore each service in full
Each vertical has its own page: deliverables, captures, and how a project runs.
Orthomosaics, cut/fill volumetrics, and dated progress capture for contractors, developers, and public bodies.
Agriculture
Five-index vigor maps, plant counts, and irrigation patterns for grower and agronomist review.
Interactive 3D twins, cinematic flythroughs, listing media, and dated property records.
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Every project starts with a short scoping conversation: your site, the airspace, and exactly what you'll receive.