Aerial · Penticton & area · Demonstration capture

Drone servicesfor Penticton.

Penticton sits between two lakes with vineyards stacked up the benches on both sides, and most of it falls inside controlled airspace around the regional airport. We're 20 minutes up the highway in Summerland, so the airspace planning, the local weather window, and the flight itself all come from one person who knows the ground here.

Penticton
Naramata
Summerland
Okanagan Falls

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Okanagan Lake & the valley benches · Demonstration captureAerial · Penticton & area

What we fly for in and around Penticton

Three kinds of work, one local pipeline.

Around Penticton the work splits three ways: the wine and orchard country stacked up the benches, the builders and developers reshaping ground in town, and the lakeside and bench properties whose owners need them shown from the air. Same aircraft, same RTK workflow, same in-house processing behind all three. Each has its own page; here's what each one settles for a Penticton owner.

VINEYARD & ORCHARD

Walk the three rows that matter

Instead of eyeballing a whole bench block and hoping you catch the weak corner before harvest, you get a ranked picture of strong, medium, and weak zones from one flight, so water, canopy work, and labour go where the season actually needs them. The Mavic 3 Multispectral reads genuine near-infrared and red-edge light across five indices (NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, LCI), and you receive zone maps plus a plain-language report of observed vigor variability for you and your agronomist. It flags the spot to walk; the two of you confirm the cause on the ground. Never a diagnosis, never a treatment prescription.

Vineyard & orchard mapping

SITE & VOLUMETRICS

Measured, not estimated

Settle the cut-and-fill number, check the stockpile, document where the project actually stands, all without putting a crew on the ground or anyone on the pile. One flight returns a planning-grade orthomosaic, topographic and elevation data, and a cut/fill and stockpile breakdown, all tied to NAD83(CSRS) so the figures hold up when someone checks them and built lines up against planned on screen. Flown once, or on the schedule you set for monthly reconciliation and a dated progress record. It's the documentation layer your engineer works from: topographic data for engineering use, never the engineering analysis itself.

Site mapping & volumetrics

ESTATE & LISTING

The reveal before the address

A lakeside or bench property sells on the setting (how the land sits, where the water is, the privacy of the approach) and that's the part a flat photo set can't carry. A cinematic reveal in the last hour of light makes a buyer fall for the place; an explore-the-estate 3D tour lets them walk it from out of province before they ever fly in. Golden-hour and twilight stills and short vertical cuts round out the kit, and the same capture quietly stands as a dated record of the property and its grounds.

Estate & listing media

See it before you book it

Real captures you can open right now.

We'd rather show you than tell you. Everything below is the company's own demonstration work, flown and processed in-house on South Okanagan ground, not stock, not a client's job. It's the honest measure of what a Penticton-area capture would look like in your hands.

Aerial capture of a modern glass house above the lake, a demonstration capture.

ESTATE CAPTURE

Lakeside estate, flown from the air

A modern glass home read from above with the water behind it: the kind of capture that anchors a listing reveal and an explore-the-estate 3D tour. Our own demonstration flight, at 0.3 cm/px delivered pixel detail with 100% RTK FIX, shown exactly as an owner would receive it.

Orthomosaic map of a property compiled from drone photogrammetry, a demonstration capture.

MAPPING & TERRAIN

Site mapping & terrain

Planning-grade orthomosaics and bare-earth terrain built from one flight: the kind of ground truth earthworks, drainage, and siting decisions get built on.

Multispectral relative-vigor map over vineyard rows, NDVI-derived zones from green high-vigor through orange lower-vigor areas, a demonstration capture.

SAMPLE REPORT

Vineyard crop-health report

Our own Summerland vineyard block, mapped across five indices and written up page by page: true colour, zone maps, and observations for grower and agronomist review. Read the full sample report and download the PDF.

These are the company's own demonstration captures, shown exactly as a client would receive them. We never present demonstration work, or any capture, as a project in a town we haven't flown.

Based 20 minutes away in Summerland

Local enough to know the airspace, and clear it properly.

Penticton is a short drive from our Summerland base, so a flight here is genuinely local: no travel premium baked in, weather windows watched on the same forecast, and a pilot who knows the ground. It also means we know the one thing every Penticton flight has to account for: the city sits in controlled airspace around the regional airport, and that's not a footnote. It's planned for, every time.

Controlled airspace, handled before capture day

Penticton Regional Airport puts much of the city and surrounding benches inside controlled airspace. Every flight is planned against current airspace rules and authorized through NAV Drone before launch, and where a site needs additional authorization, you hear about it at the scope call, not on capture day.

What you walk away with: a flight plan that's cleared to fly before we leave Summerland

A certified pilot who flies the work

Kendal Ventures is founder-led. The same Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot scopes the job, plans the airspace, flies the capture, and processes the data. Nothing is handed to a queue you can't see, and the person on the phone is the person who flew your property.

What you walk away with: one point of contact from scope call to delivery

Captured locally, processed in-house

Flights are flown on a clear-sky window you help choose and processed through our own DJI Terra, QGIS, and Blender pipeline in Summerland, georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS) and handed over in a shared client folder. Your data never sits in someone else's queue.

What you walk away with: georeferenced deliverables you can open, share, and act on

Treating airspace as part of the job, not an afterthought, is the difference between a flight that happens and one that gets cancelled at the property. Around Penticton, that planning is the work.

20 minutes from Penticton · based in Summerland, BC
Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot
Every flight authorized through NAV Drone
Captured & processed in-house

Questions & answers

Drone services in Penticton, answered.

Do you actually serve Penticton?

Yes. Penticton is one of our core service areas. It's about a 20-minute drive from our Summerland base, so a flight there is fully local. We cover Penticton itself, the Naramata Bench, Okanagan Falls, and the surrounding benches and orchards, with the same RTK capture and in-house processing we use everywhere in the South Okanagan. To keep our work honest, every capture we show is our own demonstration work; we describe the services available to you in Penticton, not projects we'd dress up as local.

Can you fly near the airport?

Much of Penticton sits in controlled airspace around the regional airport, and that's exactly why planning matters. Every flight is planned against current airspace rules and authorized through NAV Drone before launch. If a site needs additional authorization, we flag it at the scope call and sort it before capture day, so you're not standing at the property watching a flight get scrubbed. Knowing the local airspace and clearing it properly is part of every Penticton job.

What kinds of properties do you fly around Penticton?

Three broad kinds. Vineyards and orchards on the benches get multispectral crop-health mapping: five-index relative-vigor maps and a grower-ready report. Builders, developers, and aggregate sites get planning-grade orthomosaics, topographic and elevation data, and measured volumetrics. Homes, estates, and vacation rentals get interactive 3D twins, listing media, flythroughs, and dated property records. We also capture high-resolution drone roof inspection imagery: see the roof and exterior condition from above, for the owner and their qualified roofer to review; visual imagery only, never a structural, engineering, or insurance assessment. Each one runs on the same local capture-and-processing workflow. See Agriculture, Construction, commercial & public, and Estates & hospitality for the full picture.

Explore the work

Three pages, all flown out of Summerland.

Each kind of Penticton-area work has its own page: what's mapped, what you receive, and the demonstration captures behind it.

Terraced vineyard rows on the bench in golden light, from the air.

Agriculture

Have a property in Penticton? Let's scope the flight.

Every project starts with a short scoping conversation: where the property is, what you need, the airspace around it, and exactly what you'll receive.

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