The kit · Summerland, BC
The aircraft behindevery capture.
When you hire Kendal Ventures, the person on the phone flew the two DJI aircraft below, ran the onboard edge computer, and built the map, model or frame you receive, all of it in-house, from Summerland. No rented crew, no black box. This is exactly what shows up to your site, and exactly what turns the flight into something you can use.
Mapping & inspection · the workhorse
DJI Matrice 4E
This is the aircraft that lets a contractor see a whole site without putting a crew on it, lets a builder settle a change-order with dated imagery instead of memory, and lets a homeowner look over a roof without a ladder. One enterprise platform (three cameras, built-in RTK, an onboard computer) flown for orthomosaics, 3D models, cut/fill volumes, and high-resolution roof and site imagery. The specs below are why those deliverables hold up when someone checks them.
- Cameras
- Triple: 20 MP wide (4/3 CMOS), 48 MP medium-tele, and 48 MP tele: wide overview through tight detail without changing aircraft
- Shutter
- Mechanical shutter on the wide camera: crisp, distortion-free frames at mapping speed
- Positioning
- Built-in RTK, 1 cm + 1 ppm horizontal: the basis for our georeferenced, NAD83(CSRS) deliverables
- Sensing
- Omnidirectional vision with six low-light sensors and downward obstacle sensing: safe, repeatable flight lines around structures and terrain, day or dusk
- Endurance
- Up to 49 minutes on a charge: large blocks and sites in a single sortie
- Onboard compute
- Carries the DJI Manifold 3 edge computer (below): processing that begins in the air
DJI Matrice 4E · intelligent flight
More than a camera in the sky.
Why this matters to you: the flight lines come back identical every time. The M4E flies the hard parts itself: onboard AI reads the scene on the live feed, four flight modes hold the line, and six low-light fisheye sensors keep it steady into dusk and tight urban spaces, so the operator watches the picture instead of fighting the sticks. That repeatability is what makes a progress series line up month to month and a 3D model close up clean. All of it visual: RGB cameras, no thermal.
The four intelligent flight modes
- SmartTrackLocks onto a chosen subject with precise positioning and automatic zoom adjustment, so the frame stays clean while the aircraft does the following.
- FlyToSet a destination and the drone sets and adjusts its own flight path and speed around the surrounding environment to get there.
- Cruise ControlHolds a steady, consistent speed along a line, freeing the operator to concentrate on the imagery rather than the sticks.
- Point of InterestOrbits a designated subject or structure for continuous observation and consistent passes: the basis for clean 3D modelling.
Onboard intelligence & sensing
- Built-in AI detection
- An onboard model detects vehicles, vessels and people on the live RGB feed: a quick second pair of eyes across a scene, even in difficult terrain. Visual detection only, never thermal or heat-signature.
- Smart 3D Capture
- Rough models and precise mapping routes are generated right on the controller, for detailed measurement of irregular buildings and structures, on the M4E specifically.
- Coverage view
- The map shows what ground area has already been observed, based on the camera's field of view, so a block, site or roof gets full, gap-free coverage.
- Laser rangefinder
- A built-in laser rangefinding module measures to a distant point (measurement range up to 1,800 m) for smart detection and on-the-spot distances.
- Low-light navigation
- Six high-definition low-light fisheye sensors sharpen visual positioning for automatic obstacle avoidance, intelligent rerouting and safe return in dim and urban environments.
Security & monitoring · visual
Eyes over the site, day or after dark.
Need a high vantage point over a site, an event ground or a perimeter? The same aircraft becomes a visual monitoring tool, with vehicle and person detection running on the live feed through the Manifold 3 edge computer, so the people responsible on the ground get a clear overhead picture in real time. Strictly visual, RGB only: never thermal imaging, never guaranteed surveillance tracking.
- Site & perimeter monitoring
- An aerial overview of a site, event ground or perimeter, once, or as an ongoing program on a schedule you set.
- Live-feed detection
- Vehicle and person detection runs on the live RGB feed, processed onboard by the Manifold 3: a visual heads-up, for review by the people responsible on the ground.
- After-dark response
- Six low-light fisheye sensors and full-colour night navigation keep the aircraft flying a visual response into dim conditions: a faster look at what's happening after dark.
- Search assist
- A visual second pair of eyes to help cover ground and assist a search, supporting the people leading it, not replacing them.
Coming gear · on the way
Two official Matrice 4 Series accessories take the after-dark and on-site work further. The spotlight is in the kit now; the speaker is on the way:
- DJI AL1 Spotlight
- An aircraft-mounted spotlight that lights the scene below for after-dark visual flying. In the kit now.
- DJI AS1 Speaker Coming
- An aircraft-mounted loudspeaker for real-time and recorded voice broadcast over a site.
Crop health · multispectral
DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral
This is the aircraft that lets a grower scout a whole block in one short flight and walk the three rows that actually matter. Alongside a 20 MP RGB camera, it carries four dedicated single-band sensors that read the real near-infrared and red-edge light a plant gives off, not a colour trick guessed from an ordinary photo. That genuine signal is the basis for the relative-vigor maps a grower and agronomist read block by block to find the weak corner before harvest does.
- RGB camera
- 20 MP, 4/3 CMOS: the true-colour reference layer
- Multispectral
- Four 5 MP single-band sensors: Green (560 nm), Red (650 nm), Red Edge (730 nm) and Near-Infrared (860 nm)
- Indices
- NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI and more, presented as relative vigor for grower and agronomist review, never a diagnosis
- Light reference
- Built-in sunlight sensor records ambient light on every flight, so maps are normalised and comparable block to block
- Positioning
- RTK, 1 cm + 1 ppm horizontal: every band aligned to real-world coordinates
- Endurance
- Up to 43 minutes on a charge
The kit at work · Demonstration capture
This is whatthe kit produces.
A vigor map a grower can act on, a volume report a contractor can hand to the accountant, a 3D tour a buyer can walk, and a 4K reveal like this one over the Kettle Valley trestle. Same two aircraft, same in-house pipeline, every time.
Onboard compute · DJI Manifold 3
Processing that starts in the air.
The reason your deliverable comes back fast and accurate is that the work starts before the aircraft lands. The Matrice 4E carries a Manifold 3 (a rugged edge computer bolted to the aircraft) so the heavy lifting begins in flight instead of waiting on a desk. The bare-earth terrain layer below, stripped for grading and design comparison, comes off this same pipeline.
- AI compute
- Up to 100 TOPS (60 from the GPU + 40 from the DLA)
- Memory / storage
- 16 GB LPDDR5 · 256 GB SSD
- Build
- IP55-rated, 120 g, rated for field temperatures from −20 to 50 °C
From the air to your screen
- Capture: RTK flightCentimetre-accurate positioning on every frame, with ground control targets placed where the job calls for it.
- Process: DJI TerraOrthomosaics, point clouds and 3D meshes, including Gaussian-splat reconstructions, built from the raw imagery.
- Refine: QGIS & BlenderMaps styled and analysed in QGIS; models cleaned and staged in Blender for the web.
- Deliver: georeferencedInteractive 3D, maps and reports in NAD83(CSRS), through a shared folder you keep.
One kit · every kind of job
The same aircraft, pointed at your problem.
Mapping, crop health, terrain and volumes, roofs and exteriors, estates and wineries, dated property records, cinematic aerials, interactive 3D: all flown with the same two aircraft and the same in-house pipeline. And the same promise holds across every one of them: the person who flies your site is the person who processes the data and hands you the results. One point of contact, start to finish, something a firm with rotating crews can't honestly say. If it can be seen from the air, ask us.
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