Aerial · Event venue & site-planning drone
Where the parking lands, where the marquee fits, where the line will back up, read from above while there's still time to move it. Kendal Ventures captures the empty grounds for your layout and capacity planning, shoots the hero aerial that headlines the event, and documents the site again after teardown, all on the same aircraft and to one shared folder.
What you get
An organizer needs the footprint to plan against. The marketing lead needs the hero shot. Whoever signs off on the venue afterward needs the grounds documented. One mobilization on staged, crowd-free grounds delivers all three, and everything lands in one shared folder.
A high-resolution straight-down map of the grounds before the event, the base you place stages, marquees, vendor rows, parking, queue lines, and access lanes against. Because the capture is RTK-referenced, you can pull relative distances, areas, and footprints straight off the map, so layout and flow get worked out on a plan rather than on the day.
You receive: orthomosaic site map · measured distances & area for layout · oblique context views
The signature aerial that headlines the event, a full cinematic flythrough of the venue and grounds, and short vertical social cuts for the lead-up. The media an event page, a venue's website, a destination feature, and a season's promotion are built on: the setting shown at its best, from angles no ground camera reaches.
You receive: hero aerial stills · full grounds flythrough · short social cuts
A dated aerial record of the grounds after the event comes down: the same overhead view, captured again once the crowd and the build are gone. The clean visual record a venue, a landowner, or an organizer keeps to show the site was returned in good order, to settle a deposit conversation, or to plan next year against this year. Condition documentation for review, not a damage valuation or an insurance assessment.
You receive: dated teardown imagery · before-and-after grounds comparison
If you want it, an interactive 3D twin of the venue and grounds reconstructed from the same flight: orbit the site, look at the layout from any angle, and keep a dated 3D record of the property as it stands. Useful for walking a client or a board through a plan, showing the venue to an organizer remotely, and tracking how the grounds change season to season.
Optional add-on: interactive 3D venue twin · interactive 3D via Sketchfab
Everything lands in one shared client folder your whole team can open, yours to keep and reuse across seasons.
Site planning · for the organizer
From the ground you walk the site one corner at a time. From the air you see all of it at once: the natural gathering points, the pinch points, the slope that decides where water and people both want to go. The map is RTK-referenced, so the relative distances and areas you pull off it are dependable, and the layout you draw on the plan is the layout that fits on the field.
The capture is an orthomosaic site map plus oblique context views, all georeferenced, so your event team can place stages, marquees, parking, vendor rows, queue lines, and access lanes against the ground as it actually lies, and measure the distances and areas those plans depend on. It arrives in a shared folder your whole team can open, beside the venue's own site notes.
Who it's for
An event is run by people with very different jobs, and a single flight serves all of them. The organizer plans the footprint, marketing fills the seats, and the venue keeps the record.
A whole-site read before you commit the build: the footprint mapped, distances measurable, the flow planned against the ground instead of guessed on the day. And a dated record to set this year's layout against last year's, so the plan gets better every season.
Hero aerials and a flythrough of the grounds that book the next event: the setting shown the way a guest pictures it before they arrive. Plus a dated teardown record after each event, so the venue keeps a clean visual baseline of how the grounds were returned. The kind of media that makes a couple or a planner choose your grounds.
Cinematic grounds aerials and short social cuts for a destination feature, an event page, sponsor decks, and the lead-up campaign: the venue and its setting shown the way broadcast shows it, scaled for your own channels.
The orthomosaic site map and the distances and areas measured off it: the base your team and your suppliers work from when laying out stages, parking, and access. The topographic picture of how the grounds lie before a build goes in.
Straight talk on what this is
The standard event capture is of empty and staged grounds: before the gates open, during a planning walk, or after teardown. The site map and measurements are visual, topographic data for your own layout and capacity planning. They show where things fit and how the ground lies, never a crowd-safety, occupancy, or engineering determination, which stays your event team's and your qualified professionals' call. Live aerial coverage over a crowd is not part of the standard offer: it is available only by special arrangement, under a Transport Canada Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC), and subject to authorization, never booked as routine. If your event genuinely needs overhead coverage with people present, raise it at the scope call and Kendal Ventures will tell you honestly whether it can be arranged.
Request a quote
Tell us the grounds, the date, and what you need: a footprint to plan against, the hero aerial that headlines the event, a teardown record, or all three. We'll scope a crowd-free flight around a window when the site is clear, once, or as a recurring program you set the schedule for.
Every inquiry gets a reply within one business day.