Aerial · FireSmart & forestry documentation

Show the workfrom above.

A FireSmart treatment looks different from the air: the thinned stand, the cleared defensible space, the fuel break read at a glance instead of paced out on the ground. Kendal Ventures captures dated before-and-after imagery of fuel-mitigation work to support your FireSmart planning, and delivers cutblock, road, and replant orthomosaics as clean georeferenced data for your forestry professional to interpret.

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FireSmart coordinators
Woodlot & community forests
Forestry consultants
Fire departments & RDOS
First Nations

FireSmart & forestry imagery · private property · Demonstration captureBefore-and-after, from the air

FireSmart & defensible space · documentation

Before-and-after imagery that shows the fuel-mitigation work was done.

FireSmart and defensible-space work is grant-funded, milestone-driven, and far easier to plan and report when you can see all of it at once. With the property owner's permission, Kendal Ventures captures dated aerial imagery before a fuel-mitigation treatment and again after (the same georeferenced extent, flown the same way) so the thinning, spacing, and cleared zones around homes and outbuildings read clearly from above. It is visual documentation to support your FireSmart planning and reporting, not a wildfire risk assessment.

Before-and-after fuel-mitigation imagery

A dated overhead of the property before the crew goes in, and a matching capture from the same extent once the treatment is complete. The two read side by side (thinned stands, established spacing, fuel breaks, and the cleared defensible zone around structures) so the work is documented for your FireSmart file rather than described from memory. Captured only on private property, with the owner's written permission, and never on or near an active fire.

You receive: dated before & after orthomosaics · matched georeferenced extent · plain-language documentation set

Defensible-space & structure-zone overheads

Clean top-down imagery of the immediate zone around homes, cabins, and outbuildings: the priority area in any FireSmart plan. The overhead shows the cleared space, the surrounding canopy, and how the two meet, giving your coordinator a single visual to plan from and to show a homeowner or a funder what was completed.

You receive: structure-zone overheads · property-wide orthomosaic · imagery to support FireSmart planning

Dated record for grant & planning files

Everything lands in a shared client folder, dated and georeferenced, so a FireSmart coordinator, a fire department, or a Regional District has a tidy visual record to attach to a plan, a grant milestone, or a renewal. Fly it once, or as a recurring program that refreshes the imagery each season as the treatment is maintained.

You receive: organized dated imagery set · georeferenced files · optional seasonal refresh

This is visual documentation of completed FireSmart and fuel-mitigation work, captured on private property with the owner's permission to support your own FireSmart planning and reporting. It is not a wildfire risk assessment and never claims to be. Kendal Ventures captures and delivers the imagery; deciding what the property needs and signing off on a plan stays with your FireSmart professional. We never fly on, near, or over an active fire, and never inside restricted airspace.

Before the season · after the fire

A dated record on both sides of a fire.

The same FireSmart-style before-and-after, stretched across a season: a dated baseline taken before fire season, and a matching capture once a fire is out and the airspace has reopened. Kendal Ventures flies neither on nor near an active fire; this is the calm, legal work on either side of one.

Pre-fire baseline

A dated, georeferenced overhead of a property, acreage, or community before fire season: the structures, the access, the standing fuel and the defensible space as they are today. If the worst comes, you and your insurer have a clear “before” to measure against instead of a memory.

You receive: dated property orthomosaic · 3D record · georeferenced files

Post-fire mapping & records

Once a fire is out and the airspace has reopened, an orthomosaic and 3D model of the burned extent (what stood, what didn’t, the line the fire held) captured for the owner, their insurer, or a restoration plan. Visual documentation only; the burn-severity and recovery calls stay with your qualified professional.

You receive: post-fire orthomosaic · 3D model · before/after against the baseline

Both are visual records, captured on private property with permission and never on, near, or over an active fire or inside restricted airspace, useful to homeowners, municipalities, First Nations, woodlot operators, and insurers building or settling a record.

Replant, cutblock & canopy · data for your forester

Regeneration and cutblock imagery, captured as data, interpreted by your forester.

A replant or a cutblock is a long story told over years, and the view from above is the cleanest way to keep the record. Kendal Ventures captures georeferenced orthomosaics of cutblocks, roads, and canopy, plus dated visual monitoring of regeneration and replant stocking (strong rows here, gaps there) across the whole block in one pass. It all arrives as clean, georeferenced data for your Registered Professional Forester to interpret and certify.

REPLANT

Regeneration & replant monitoring

Dated visual monitoring of how a replant is filling in: coverage across the block, where stocking looks strong, and where the gaps are, captured the same way each return so this year's imagery sets against last year's. Delivered as imagery and georeferenced maps for your forester to interpret; it identifies areas to look at, never a stocking determination.

CUTBLOCK

Cutblock, road & canopy orthomosaics

A single stitched straight-down orthomosaic of a cutblock, its road network, and the surrounding canopy: the practical base imagery a planning conversation, a map, or a forestry file is built on. Georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS), drawn from the same RTK-referenced capture as everything else.

TERRAIN

Elevation, contour & access visuals

Elevation and contour visuals across the block plus surface-water flow paths, so your team can see how the ground lies before planning roads, landings, or a treatment. Topographic data for your own and your forester's planning, not an engineering assessment.

RECORD

Dated multi-year record

Captured once or as a recurring program, every flight feeds a dated, georeferenced record of how the block changes over the years, useful for planning conversations, reporting, and showing a licensee or a community-forest board the lay of the land without a field walk for everyone.

These are orthomosaics, georeferenced maps, and dated imagery, captured as data and delivered for your Registered Professional Forester to interpret and certify. The replant imagery shows observed coverage and gaps for review; it is never a stocking determination, a standing-volume figure, or a forestry prescription. Reading the block and deciding what it needs stays your forester's call; Kendal Ventures gives them a whole-block view to work from.

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Who it's for

The people who plan, fund, and steward the land.

FireSmart and forestry work is run by people with very different jobs, and dated aerial documentation serves all of them. The coordinator plans and reports the treatment, the forester interprets the block, and the steward keeps the long record.

FIRESMART

FireSmart coordinators

Before-and-after imagery that shows a fuel-mitigation treatment was completed: a clean visual to attach to a plan, a grant milestone, or a homeowner conversation, captured on private property with the owner's permission. Documentation to support your FireSmart planning, not a risk assessment.

FORESTRY

Consultants & forestry professionals

Cutblock, road, canopy, and replant orthomosaics delivered as georeferenced data you interpret and certify. Kendal Ventures runs as your data subcontractor from the air; you stay the professional of record, with a whole-block view to work from instead of a field walk for every question.

WOODLOTS

Woodlot & community-forest licensees

A dated, georeferenced record of your blocks year over year: replant progress, road and canopy imagery, and terrain visuals to show a board or a partner the lay of the land. Captured once or as a recurring program you set the schedule for.

PUBLIC SECTOR

Fire departments, RDOS & First Nations

Recurring imagery programs for municipal and Regional District fire-mitigation work, and cultural- and stewardship-led capture delivered under a Nation's direction: imagery and 3D only, on private and managed land, never an active fire and never restricted airspace.

Straight talk on what this is

What this is, and what it's not.

The FireSmart imagery is visual documentation of completed fuel-mitigation and defensible-space work, captured on private property with the owner's permission to support your FireSmart planning and reporting. It shows what was done, dated and from above. It is not a wildfire risk assessment, and we never decide what a property needs or sign off on a plan; that stays with your FireSmart professional. We never fly on, near, or over an active fire, and never inside restricted airspace.

The cutblock, replant, and canopy layers are orthomosaics and georeferenced data for your Registered Professional Forester to interpret and certify. The replant imagery shows observed coverage and gaps for review, never a stocking determination, a standing-volume figure, or a forestry prescription. The terrain layers are topographic data for planning, not an engineering assessment. Kendal Ventures captures and delivers the picture your professionals work from.

How it runs

From scope call to a folder of forestry data.

A FireSmart or forestry capture is one mobilization timed around your crew and your season, planned against current airspace through NAV Drone, so you hear about any airspace step at the scope call, not on capture day, and the flight stays on private or managed land, well clear of any active fire. The scope-call-to-delivery process is the same on every Kendal Ventures project.

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FireSmart documentation + forestry data, from the air
Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilot
Captured & processed in-house
Summerland, BC

Questions & answers

FireSmart & forestry drone documentation, answered.

Do you fly wildfires or active fire areas?

No, never. Kendal Ventures does not fly on, near, or over an active fire, and never inside restricted or temporarily restricted airspace. FireSmart and forestry documentation is captured only on private or managed land, with permission, and only when there is no active fire. Every flight is planned against current airspace rules through NAV Drone, and you hear about any airspace step at the scope call rather than on the day.

Is the before-and-after imagery a wildfire risk assessment?

No. The imagery is visual documentation of completed fuel-mitigation and defensible-space work: dated, georeferenced, captured on private property with the owner's permission to support your FireSmart planning and reporting. It shows what was done from above. It is not a wildfire risk assessment, and we don't decide what a property needs or sign off on a plan; that stays with your FireSmart professional. We give them a clean visual to plan and report from.

Can you tell me whether my replant meets stocking?

No, that's your Registered Professional Forester's call, and we deliver the data they work from. Our replant captures are dated visual monitoring showing observed coverage and gaps across the block, delivered as imagery and georeferenced maps for your forester to interpret and certify. They identify areas worth a closer look and let you compare the block to itself over the years. They are never a stocking determination, a standing-volume figure, or a forestry prescription.

What forestry data can you deliver?

Cutblock, road, and canopy orthomosaics; dated replant and regeneration monitoring imagery; and elevation, contour, and surface-water-flow visuals for planning, all georeferenced in NAD83(CSRS) and delivered to a shared folder. Everything is captured as data for your Registered Professional Forester to interpret and certify. The terrain layer is topographic data for planning, not an engineering assessment.

The same pipeline maps more than the bush.

The orthomosaic, terrain, and dated-monitoring workflow behind your FireSmart and forestry capture is the same one that maps sites and reads crops across the South Okanagan.

Aerial view over an Okanagan valley site, planning-grade orthomosaic and terrain from the air.

Construction & public

Site mapping & terrain

Planning-grade orthomosaics, elevation, and contour for the whole site, all from the same georeferenced pipeline, pointed at open ground.

Relative-vigor map over crop rows, green high-vigor through orange lower-vigor zones.

Agriculture

Crop health & vigor mapping

The same calibrated multispectral relative-vigor mapping and dated monitoring, prepared for grower and agronomist review.

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Document the work from above.

Tell us whether it's FireSmart before-and-after, a replant or cutblock capture, or both, and who's interpreting the data on your side. We'll scope the flight around your crew and your season, on private or managed land, well clear of any active fire. Once, or as a program you set the schedule for.

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