Aerial · Naramata Bench · Demonstration capture
A winery on the Naramata Bench sells a place as much as a wine, and a vineyard here farms a dozen slopes at once. We map the canopy across the whole estate, build a 3D tour visitors can walk before they book, and shoot the bench the way it feels to stand on it. Flown and processed in-house from Summerland, just across the lake.
A bench built differently
The Naramata Bench isn't flat farmland. It's a run of terraces and aspects falling toward the lake, where vines a few rows apart sit on different soil, different slope, and a different pocket of sun. Walk it row by row and the weak corner hides until harvest. One calibrated flight lays the whole estate out as strong, medium, and weak zones, so you know which block to walk before you put a boot in the dirt.
Bench blocks rarely behave as a single unit. Water moves down the slope and pools where the grade flattens, and the canopy follows; a multispectral map draws those zones so you can manage them as the separate units they really are.
A south-facing terrace ripens on a different clock than the row that turns toward the lake. Five vigor indices, calibrated to a reflectance reference, show where exposure is pushing the canopy and where it lags, across the whole estate at once.
Small boutique estates often farm many small blocks, each its own varietal and history. One capture lays them side by side so you can see how each is tracking the season and where the season is asking for your attention first.
The maps show observed vigor variability: zones identified for grower and agronomist review, prepared with a reflectance-panel calibration so they read true block to block. They are never a diagnosis and never a treatment prescription.
Calibrated multispectral · the core service
From the ground you see the rows in front of you. From the air, anchored to a reflectance panel, you read every terrace at once: where vigor is strong, where it falls off, and which vine to walk to. A whole-estate picture before veraison, so the irrigation change and the leaf-pull and the extra hands land on the blocks that actually need them, plus a baseline you set next year's flight against to see whether a zone is climbing or sliding toward replant.
Each multispectral flight reads the canopy across five indices (NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, and LCI) cross-checking each other so a zone that reads low across several is a stronger signal than one that shows up alone. A reflectance-panel capture is part of the workflow on every flight, so the indices read against the same reference each time: comparable across dates and block to block. Everything arrives as a plain-language report and a georeferenced map set you can open beside your own scouting notes and your agronomist's.
Winery marketing · explore-the-estate 3D
A guest chooses a bench winery for the arrival: the view from the terrace, the tables under the lake light, the walk between the vines. The same flight that maps your canopy builds an interactive 3D tour and a reel of the estate from the air, so the people who plan their tasting list, book a wedding, or order from the wine club have already stood on your terrace in their heads. One reusable brand asset, not a video you shoot once and bury.
A self-guided twin of the property a visitor orbits in the browser: the terraces, the tasting room, the approach off the road, laid out the way they sit on the bench. Embed it on your own site and a guest planning a trip from out of province can walk the place before they ever pick a date. Built from the same georeferenced flight as your crop-health map.
Passes along the rows in the last hour of light, a slow reveal of the terraces stepping down to the water, and short vertical cuts sized for the feeds your guests actually scroll. Footage you reuse across the website, the wine-club emails, and the tasting-room screen: the land-to-glass story of where the wine grows.
For the wineries on the bench that host weddings and events, the same flight documents the grounds and the ceremony terrace for your booking page, so the couples who enquire have already seen the view that interior photos can't reach. Empty or staged grounds only, never live events or crowds.
Lakefront estate media
The bench is lined with private estates a buyer falls for before they read a single line of the listing: the privacy, the drop to the water, the way the grounds sit against the lake. Ground-level photos never hold that. A cinematic reveal and an interactive twin show the property and its reach down to the water the way it feels in person, so an out-of-province buyer is half-sold before they fly in to see it.
A 30-to-90-second cinematic reveal graded for the last hour of light, low-oblique and top-down aerials, and an interactive twin a remote buyer can walk: the property and its reach down to the water, shown the way ground-level photos can't.
A georeferenced, time-stamped capture of the home and grounds for the owner's records: a clear baseline before a renovation, a sale, or a season of change.
High-resolution roof and exterior condition imagery: see the roof without ladders, for the owner and their roofer to review. Visual imagery only, not a structural, engineering, or insurance assessment.
One of our own estate demonstration captures: the home and its grounds shot from the air and rebuilt as an interactive twin, shown here as the kind of estate media available across the bench. See the full estate-media service.
Proof · Our own captures
Nothing here is a stock library. These are the company's own demonstration captures from the South Okanagan, shown exactly as a grower, a winery, or an estate owner on the bench would receive their own.
Demonstration · Vineyard vigor
A real five-index relative-vigor report from our own capture of a Summerland vineyard block, with zone maps and plain-language observations. See it page by page and download the sample PDF.
The full estate rebuilt as an interactive twin from a single georeferenced capture: blocks, grounds, and tasting-room approach laid out the way they sit on the bench.
Based nearby
Kendal Ventures is based in Summerland, across and up the lake from the bench, close enough to fly your window when the light and the season are right, not a date dictated by a queue somewhere else. Most of the bench sits in rural, uncontrolled airspace, which keeps scheduling straightforward; where a flight needs coordination, that's handled as part of planning the job.
Flown locally and processed in-house, on the schedule you set: once when you need it, or as an ongoing program across the season.
The bench, Penticton, and Summerland are the home patch, and the same service reaches the wider South Okanagan from there.
Questions & answers
Yes. Slope and terracing are part of what the capture is built to read. The flight is planned to the ground it covers, and the elevation model carries the relief through, so a map of a terraced bench block reads as true as a map of flat ground. The variability between terraces is exactly what the multispectral flight is there to show.
Mostly not. The bench sits largely in rural, uncontrolled airspace, which keeps scheduling straightforward compared with the controlled zones around larger airports. Where a particular site does need coordination, that's handled as part of planning the job, by a Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot, before anything flies.
An interactive 3D twin of the property you can embed on your own site, aerial and cinematic footage, and short vertical social cuts. Built from the same georeferenced capture as a crop-health map, so a single flight can serve both your marketing and your viticulture. We set the exact deliverables at the scope call.
No. The maps show observed vigor variability (where the canopy is strong and where it's struggling) and identify zones for grower and agronomist review. They are not a diagnosis and never a treatment prescription. What's causing a zone, and what to do about it, is a call for you and your agronomist; the map tells you where to look.
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