Aerial · Public sector & infrastructure
Parks, trails, gravel pits, landfill cells, and a public-works asset library, captured from above on a schedule you set, mapped and measured, and filed where your whole department can find it. Kendal Ventures captures the imagery; your engineers, planners, and managers keep the call. One aircraft, one mobilization, one shared folder.
Public sector & infrastructure
A municipality, a regional district, a utility, and a First Nation government each need a different view from the air: a recurring imagery program, a dated record of an aging culvert, a Nation-directed 3D capture of a heritage site. Kendal Ventures captures all three the same disciplined way: georeferenced imagery flown with RTK referencing, processed in-house in Summerland, and delivered to a shared folder your team owns. We capture and deliver the picture. The people who interpret and certify it stay your professionals.
01 · Municipal & regional-district imagery programs
The parks, the trail network, the gravel pit, the landfill cells, the yards and lots a public-works department is responsible for, all captured from above, mapped, and measured, then captured again next quarter or next year so you can see what changed. One mobilization documents the whole asset library at once, in georeferenced imagery your planners, GIS team, and managers can open side by side with what they already hold.
High-resolution overhead and oblique imagery and a stitched orthomosaic of parks, trail corridors, sports fields, beaches, and public grounds: the current visual base your recreation, parks, and GIS staff work from for planning, communications, and an asset library. Flown once for a baseline, or on a recurring program so the record stays current season to season.
You receive: orthomosaic base map · overhead & oblique imagery · shared asset-library folder
Measured stockpile and cell volumes across a pit or a landfill, captured flight after flight so airspace consumed and material moved show up as numbers your operations team can track over time. Volumetric measurement and change-detection from RTK-referenced capture, relative accuracy and repeatable run to run, for your own operations reporting and planning.
You receive: volumetric measurement · cell & stockpile change-detection · dated comparison set
Elevation, contour, and surface model data across a site or corridor, plus change-detection between dates that shows where ground moved, vegetation encroached, or a slope shifted. Topographic data for your planners and engineers to interpret: the picture they plan from, prepared for them to review and certify, never an engineering determination on its own.
You receive: elevation & contour data · surface model · between-date change-detection
A single dated capture across the assets a department carries (yards, lots, road-end accesses, water and works infrastructure sites), built into a shared, georeferenced library that anyone with access can open. Run it once for a baseline, or as a recurring program on a quarterly or annual cadence your team sets, so each visit lands beside the last.
You receive: georeferenced asset library · recurring dated captures · one shared department folder
These deliverables are imagery, mapping, topographic data, and volumetric measurement, captured for your planners, GIS staff, engineers, and managers to interpret and act on. Measurements are RTK-referenced relative accuracy for your own operations use.
02 · Infrastructure visual condition documentation
The underside of a bridge, the face of a retaining wall, a culvert inlet choked after a storm, the top of a tower nobody can safely reach: all captured in high-resolution imagery and interactive 3D from the air, so your engineer reviews the condition from the picture instead of mobilizing access equipment first.
High-resolution imagery and 3D of road corridors, bridge decks and undersides, abutments, and culvert inlets and outlets, including the angles a ground crew can't reach without traffic control or a snooper truck. A dated visual record your engineer and roads department review, and that you can re-fly after a storm event or freshet to document what changed.
You receive: high-resolution condition imagery · interactive 3D · dated before/after sets
Visual documentation of dam faces and spillways, communications and utility towers, and retaining walls, captured from the air at standoff distance so the surface is documented in detail without anyone climbing or rappelling. High-resolution imagery and 3D for your engineer's and asset manager's review, filed as a dated baseline you compare against on the next flight.
You receive: surface condition imagery · interactive 3D model · baseline for comparison
When access is the problem (a slope above a road, a structure over water, a site after a washout or wind event), the aircraft reaches it and brings back the imagery the same day. A fast, dated visual record for your engineer, your insurer's adjuster, and your own files, captured before conditions change again.
You receive: rapid condition imagery · 3D where it helps · dated, georeferenced record
A cell or communication tower, a transmission structure, an antenna array: the aircraft works every level in a single visit, photographing each arm, antenna, mount, and connection in close-up with 7x optical zoom from a safe standoff. Nobody climbs, nobody leaves the ground, and the whole structure comes back documented from one flight.
What lands in your folder is a dated, georeferenced image set of the whole structure, level by level, that your engineer or asset manager opens at the desk, routes to a contractor, and files against the asset. Capture it once for a baseline, then re-fly it after a weather event or on the schedule you set and put the two sets side by side.
03 · First Nations stewardship & heritage 3D
Where a First Nation wants a heritage site, a stewardship area, or a cultural landscape recorded from above, Kendal Ventures flies under the Nation's direction and hands back imagery and interactive 3D that the Nation owns and controls outright. Aligned with OCAP, the First Nations principles of ownership, control, access, and possession, the data, where it's stored, who sees it, and what it's used for are the Nation's decisions, start to finish. We capture and deliver; we don't keep, publish, or share it.
A Nation-directed capture can record a site as it stands today: a dated, georeferenced visual and 3D baseline the community holds for its own stewardship, planning, and record-keeping, and can set future captures against to see how a place changes over time. The Nation sets the scope, the access, and the boundaries of what is and isn't flown. Imagery and 3D only: this is a visual record the Nation owns, never an archaeological or heritage assessment, which stays the work of the qualified professionals the Nation engages.
Data sovereignty is built into how the work runs, not added afterward. Raw and processed data is delivered to the Nation and held by the Nation; Kendal Ventures retains nothing without the Nation's written direction, publishes nothing, and shares nothing. Captures happen on the Nation's terms and on the Nation's timeline: a single record today, or a recurring program the Nation schedules. The deliverable is imagery, interactive 3D via Sketchfab, and a georeferenced map set, all under the Nation's ownership and control.
Who it's for
Public work has to stand up to a council, a board, an auditor, or a community. The capture is disciplined, the data is georeferenced and dated, and the boundary between what we deliver and what your professionals certify is drawn clearly, on purpose.
Straight talk on what this is
What we deliver is imagery, mapping, topographic data, volumetric measurement, and visual condition documentation, captured and processed in-house, georeferenced, and dated. It is the picture your professionals plan and decide from. It is not a property boundary or cadastral determination (that is a BC Land Surveyor's work), and it is not an engineering evaluation, structural assessment, or load rating (that is your engineer's). We never call a structure safe or unsafe. Where a determination needs to be certified, it goes to your qualified professional. That's the line, and we hold it.
How it runs
A public-sector capture is one mobilization planned against current airspace through NAV Drone, so you hear about any airspace step at the scope call, not on capture day, and recurring programs are scheduled on a cadence your team sets. The scope-call-to-delivery process is the same on every Kendal Ventures project.
Questions & answers
No. We capture imagery, mapping, topographic data, and volumetric measurement: the current picture your planners, GIS staff, and engineers work from. Measurements are RTK-referenced relative accuracy for your own operations use. It is not a property boundary or cadastral determination; that work stays with a BC Land Surveyor. We deliver the picture; the certified determination stays with your professional.
No. The bridge, dam, tower, culvert, and retaining-wall work is visual condition documentation: high-resolution imagery and 3D captured so your engineer can review the condition closely without mobilizing access equipment first. It is not an engineering evaluation, a structural assessment, or a load rating, and we never call a structure safe or unsafe. Interpreting and certifying the condition stays your qualified engineer's call; we capture the detailed visual record they review.
Yes. Parks and asset libraries, pit and landfill volumetrics, and infrastructure condition records can all be flown once for a baseline or on a recurring program (quarterly, annually, or a cadence your department sets) so each visit lands beside the last and you can see what changed. We agree the schedule with you up front, and everything goes to one shared, georeferenced folder your team owns.
The Nation owns and controls the data, aligned with OCAP: ownership, control, access, and possession. We fly under the Nation's direction, deliver the raw and processed data to the Nation, and retain nothing without the Nation's written direction. We publish nothing and share nothing. The capture is imagery and interactive 3D only, a visual record the community holds for its own stewardship and planning, never an archaeological or heritage assessment, which stays the work of the qualified professionals the Nation engages.
More from the air
The orthomosaic, volumetric, and visual-documentation workflow behind your public-sector capture is the same one Kendal Ventures runs on construction sites and across the rest of the South Okanagan.
Planning-grade orthomosaics, terrain, and 3D for the whole site, all from the same georeferenced capture, pointed at construction and commercial projects.
Volumetric measurement tracked flight after flight, the same RTK-referenced workflow behind pit and landfill-cell measurement.
Request a quote
Tell us what you're responsible for: the parks and trails, the pit or landfill, the bridge or culvert, the stewardship site, and whether you want a one-time baseline or a recurring program. We'll scope the flight and draw the boundary between what we deliver and what your professionals certify, clearly, up front.
Every inquiry gets a reply within one business day.