Five-index relative-vigor maps
NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, and LCI from one flight, cross-checking each other: a zone that reads low across several indices is a stronger signal than one that dips in one.
Vineyard & orchard country · Oliver & Osoyoos · South Okanagan
Find your weakest blocksbefore they cost you.
A weak corner of a block is easy to miss on foot and costly when you do. One flight reads the whole planting, strongest zones to weakest, so you know where to walk first. It's a relative read for you and your agronomist. Flown from Summerland, a short drive down the valley.
Why this corner of the valley
This is one of the hottest, most tightly planted stretches of the valley.
The stretch from Okanagan Falls through Oliver to Osoyoos packs in vineyards and orchards at a density few places in Canada match, on benches, fans, and lake-bottom soils that change block to block. The more rows you manage, the more one capture is worth.
CLIMATE
Canada's warmest, driest pocket
Long heat units and thin rainfall mean water and canopy decisions carry weight every week. A vigor read shows where the heat is biting before it shows up in the fruit.
SOILS
Bench, fan & lake-bottom variation
Soils shift sharply across short distances here, and so does vigor. Zones drawn from the air follow how the ground behaves rather than the row numbers on a map.
DENSITY
More to manage, acre for acre
The gap between what you can walk and what you can see from above is widest here. One flight covers ground that takes days on foot.
Crop health · The core read
Spot a struggling block before it shows up in the fruit.
One flight shows you which zones are struggling before harvest does. It tells you which zones are pulling, which are holding, and which need a closer look this week, with observations written for you and your agronomist.
Vine & tree counting
A count of vines or trees, mapped to where each one stands: a starting point for replant planning and inventory.
Gap & miss detection
Missing vines, dead trees, and skips in the planting pattern, flagged by location. Easy to lose track of on foot, obvious from above.
Irrigation-pattern imagery
Vigor patterns drawn into zones, so water and inputs can follow the canopy rather than the calendar. A dry line or failing emitter shows up as a pattern you can check.
Apple, cherry, peach & apricot
Tree-by-tree vigor, gap detection, and tree counts: the vineyard workflow, tuned to orchard canopy for stone fruit and apples.
Season-over-season change
This year's flight set against last year's, panel-referenced so the comparison holds: a record of what's trending where.
Multispectral maps show relative vigor for grower and agronomist review: they identify zones to look at, not what to do about them. A reflectance-panel capture on every flight keeps maps comparable across dates and block to block.
What you receive
You get a plain report you can actually read, not a folder of raw files.
A vigor flight is built to end in a plain-language PDF: true colour, five indices, area-by-class tables, and written observations. What's in yours is set at the scoping call. You can open a real delivery, report included, right on this site.
What this looks like · Demonstration captures
Flown and processed in-house, on South Okanagan ground.
We don't show projects we haven't done. Everything here is our own work from elsewhere in the South Okanagan, never presented as Oliver or Osoyoos jobs.
VINEYARD
Summerland vineyard report
Our own 5.3-acre Summerland block, flown and processed in-house: five indices, zone maps, and the kind of report a vigor flight produces.
RESIDENTIAL
Blair Street property twin
Our own Blair Street capture: 6,052 images at 100% RTK FIX, 3.6 cm georeferencing RMSE, 0.3 cm/px delivered pixel detail, built into an interactive 3D twin. It shows the detail this workflow can reach. Each job is scoped to what it needs.
TERRAIN
Cedar Creek terrain model
A creek corridor with steep relief, built from the bare-earth terrain model.
It's not just vineyards. I also map sites and measure stockpiles.
Site mapping and stockpile counts for gravel and development work.
Vineyards aren't the only ground that moves down here. Oliver and Osoyoos carry gravel pits, subdivisions, and development sites, and the same RTK capture delivers planning-grade orthomosaics, elevation surfaces, and stockpile volumetrics for them.
Planning-grade orthomosaic
One georeferenced top-down image of the site, scaled true, stitched into a single map you can measure off.
For planners · developers · contractors. Deliverables: georeferenced orthomosaic · shared client folder
Stockpile & aggregate volumetrics
Measured volumes from the 3D model, repeatable pile to pile and month to month.
For gravel pits · aggregate · contractors. Deliverables: measured-volume figures · model + screenshots
Elevation & bare-earth surfaces
A digital surface model plus a bare-earth terrain model for slope, drainage, and cut-and-fill work.
For earthworks · drainage · site teams. Deliverables: DSM · DTM · georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS)
Recurring progress & as-built capture
The same site flown on a schedule: a running record, with a georeferenced as-built at the end.
For developers · contractors. Deliverables: recurring orthomosaics · as-built · shared folder
Drone roof inspections
High-resolution roof and exterior imagery, captured without ladders, for the owner and their roofer to review. Visual imagery only, never a structural, engineering, or insurance assessment.
For homeowners · property managers · roofers. Deliverables: roof & exterior imagery · shared client folder
Volumetrics are inventory and management figures from the 3D model, prepared for qualified professional review where a certified figure is required.
On the community's terms
Imagery and 3D for First Nations land, under the Nation's direction.
This part of the valley includes Osoyoos Indian Band lands. For First Nations land and cultural sites we provide interactive 3D and georeferenced imagery, captured under the Nation's own direction and organized for stewardship, planning, and archival use. The direction stays with the Nation.
- Based up the valley in Summerland, BC
- Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot
- Captured & processed in-house
- Reflectance-panel calibration on every multispectral flight
Local to the valley
A short drive down the valley, and seven-plus years in this ground.
Kendal Ventures works out of Summerland, a straightforward run down Highway 97, built on more than seven years of Okanagan vineyard and civil experience. Every flight is planned against current airspace rules before capture day; extra authorization gets flagged at the scope call.
NEARBY
Down the valley, close to the work
A Summerland base means clear-sky windows we can read and a flight timed to your block.
IN-HOUSE
One pilot, captured to delivered
The same Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot flies your block and processes the data. Mapping deliverables come georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS).
Questions & answers
Drone services in Oliver & Osoyoos, answered.
Do you come down to Oliver and Osoyoos?
Yes. We're based in Summerland, a short drive down Highway 97, and Okanagan Falls through Oliver to Osoyoos is core service area. We schedule around your block and a clear-sky window.
Is a vigor map a diagnosis?
No. A vigor map shows observed vigor variability and identifies zones for grower and agronomist review. It is not a diagnosis and never a treatment prescription. The cause, and the fix, is a call for you and your agronomist.
Can you count vines and trees?
Yes. Vine and tree counts, mapped to where each one stands, plus gap and miss detection. That is the kind of read one flight gives you, scoped to what your blocks need.
Do you do more than crop-health mapping?
Yes. The same capture delivers orthomosaics, elevation surfaces, and stockpile volumetrics for gravel, aggregate, and development sites; see the construction, commercial & public page.
Can work be delivered for First Nations land?
Imagery and 3D, yes, under the Nation's own direction: georeferenced imagery and interactive 3D of land and cultural sites, organized for stewardship, planning, and archival use. Direction stays with the community.
More from the air
The same flight works for other kinds of property too.
The same capture that maps your blocks serves the rest of the valley too.
Request a quote
Let's get your Oliver or Osoyoos blocks flown. Tell me the blocks and the timing and I'll quote it.
Every project starts with a short scoping conversation: which blocks, when in the season, and exactly what you'll receive.