Aerial · Winery 3D tours & marketing · Demonstration capture
An explore-the-estate tour for South Okanagan wineries that plays right in the browser. Your blocks, varietals, and tasting room, laid into an interactive 3D and aerial map a guest can wander before they ever arrive. Plus golden-hour aerials and a brand film to carry it.
The estate model · The flythrough
Below is the base capture: a Summerland vineyard estate rebuilt as a 3D model from an RTK drone flight and processed in-house. From a model like this we render the flythrough a winery leads with, and build the fully interactive explore-the-estate tour a client package delivers, embedded on your own website.
Our own demonstration capture: a Summerland vineyard estate, rebuilt as a 3D model. It comes off the same orthomosaic-plus-3D-twin pipeline as our Blair Street capture (6,052 images, 100% RTK FIX, ~25 hours of in-house processing), and there's more of it running live in our digital twin lab. Want to feel what a rendered flythrough is like today? The Blair Street flythrough is live on the estates page.
That's the base capture. A client tour starts from the same kind of model of your estate, then builds the touring layer on top.
We fly your property and rebuild it the same way: the rows, the tasting room, the terraces, the lawn over the lake. A visitor moves through the actual place in the browser, with no app and no download. By the time they reach out, they've already walked it.
Labelled overlays sit on top of the model and the aerial map. They show which block grows which varietal, where the tasting room, patio, and event lawn are, and where the estate walk begins. A guest reads the property at a glance and arrives already knowing it.
It's delivered as a clean embed that drops into your existing website, a tourism listing, or a wine-club page. The interactive 3D is served through Sketchfab, with the aerial map alongside it. It lives where your visitors already find you.
Marketing the estate
The tour gets a visitor exploring. The media gets them feeling it. We capture golden-hour aerials, a brand film, and short vertical cuts for social, all on the same flights. Everything is cut to match how your brand already speaks, ready for your website, your wine-club emails, and wherever people find you.
One aerial like this does more work than a listing video ever will. It's the hero image a winery reuses across the website, the wine-club emails, the tasting-room screens, and the trail map, telling the land-to-glass story in a single frame. Shoot it once, lead with it everywhere.
Low, slow passes across the rows and over the buildings in the last light of the day. These are the hero stills and footage that anchor a homepage, a label story, or a tourism feature. It's the estate at its best, from angles no ground camera reaches.
A short estate film that moves through the property the way a story does: the approach up the lane, the rows, the cellar door, the view. We cut it to length for your homepage or a campaign, then pace and grade it to match how your brand already looks and sounds.
Vertical reels cut from the same captures for Instagram, TikTok, and your feed. These are the fast, short pieces that pull a viewer toward the longer film and the tour itself. They're sized and framed for where wine tourists actually browse.
Aerial and high-vantage imagery of the tasting room, patio, and event grounds for the events and weddings side of the estate. We shoot it staged and empty, never live crowds. It's the venue the way a couple pictures it, from above.
Captured once, or as an ongoing program on the schedule you set. A spring-flush, veraison, or harvest refresh keeps the imagery a guest sees online matched to the season they're booking into. Your library stays current vintage to vintage.
Clean top-down and oblique stills with the estate map and block labels laid over them. These are the practical images a DMO listing, a wine-trail map, or a cellar-door sign needs, all drawn from the same georeferenced capture.
The setting
People choose a wine-country day on a feeling, and the feeling lands before they taste anything. From the air the whole estate reads at once: the terraced rows stepping toward the water, the buildings, the way the land sits to the sun. The same golden-hour flight that builds your 3D tour hands you the establishing shots a destination winery leads with.
More ways to show the estate
Beyond the twin and the brand film, the same georeferenced capture supports a handful of extra pieces. There's a stand-and-look-around panorama, a narrated walkthrough that does the talking, and a quiet read of how each block sits to the sun.
Stand-and-look-around panoramas of the tasting room and grounds. Drag to turn a full circle from the patio, the cellar door, or the lawn. It's a lightweight piece that drops into a listing or a tourism page beside the full 3D twin.
A guided pass through the 3D estate with a voice carrying it. The route moves from the approach to the rows to the cellar door, narrated in your own words. It's the tour that introduces the place when no one's there to do it in person.
A reference map of which way each block faces, showing the aspect and exposure that shape how a slope catches the sun. It's a planning-grade read drawn from the same georeferenced capture, useful for the estate story and for the vineyard team to review.
One capture, two jobs
Here's the part a camera-only shop can't match. The flights that build your tour and your brand film carry a multispectral camera too. So a single visit can do two jobs at once. It markets the front of house to wine tourists and hands your vineyard team a read on the canopy out back. One mobilization, two deliverables: the public-facing tour, and the working map.
Front of house and back of house, both in one pass. The same flight that captures the tasting terrace and the lakeside lawn also reads the tanks, the crush pad, and the rows the wine actually comes from: the whole story from vine to glass, documented in one visit.
The estate tour, golden-hour aerials, the brand film, and social cuts. Together they get a visitor to choose your cellar door over the next one down the bench. It's the story side of the estate, told from the air.
The same flights can deliver multispectral relative-vigor mapping across five indices: NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, and LCI. You get zone maps and a plain-language report showing observed vigor variability, block by block.
Crop-health maps show relative vigor for grower and agronomist review. They identify zones to look at, not a diagnosis. See the full agriculture page for the five indices, the seasonal calendar, and the sample report.
Why this, not a photo shoot
A drone photographer can hand you beautiful footage. What they can't hand you is a property a visitor actually explores. The tour isn't video. It's a georeferenced 3D reconstruction of your estate, and that comes from a mapping pipeline, not a camera gimbal.
We fly the estate as an RTK mapping mission. The high-overlap grids reconstruct the property in 3D and scale true, the same way we capture our construction and twin work. The footage is a by-product of a real measured capture of the ground, so the map and the model line up.
What it means for you: a tour and a map that actually match the land
DJI Terra with Gaussian Splatting, then QGIS and Blender, all run by the same pilot who flew the estate. Nothing waits in an outside queue. It's the pipeline behind our digital twin lab, turned toward a winery.
What it means for you: one team from flight to embed, no hand-offs
The interactive tour, the films, and the stills land in a shared folder and embed into your own site. They're yours to keep, reuse across vintages, and point your wine-club and tourism channels at. We can refresh it on a schedule when the estate changes.
What it means for you: a marketing asset that keeps working all season
How it runs
We time estate flights for golden-hour light, and if your team wants it the crop-health map comes off the same trip out. Otherwise a winery project follows the same five steps as the rest of our aerial work. It gets scoped, flown, processed in-house, and delivered.
Questions & answers
As a short snippet of embed code, which we hand over and help you place. It drops into your existing site whether that's hand-built or on a page builder, and the tour plays right on a phone as well as a laptop. The model loads only when a visitor taps it, just like the live demos in our digital twin lab, so it won't slow the rest of your site down.
Whatever helps a guest read the estate. That's usually which block grows which varietal, where the tasting room, patio, and event grounds are, where the estate walk starts, and the lake or valley views worth driving for. We lay the labels over your georeferenced map at the scope call so they match the property exactly.
Yes. That's what makes one visit do double duty. The aircraft carries a multispectral camera, so a single visit can deliver both the public-facing tour and media and a relative-vigor crop-health map set for your vineyard team. That's five indices, zone maps, and a plain-language report prepared for grower and agronomist review. See the agriculture page for the full picture.
No. We capture venue and grounds media staged or empty, showing the room, the patio, and the event lawn at their best, never a live event or a crowd. That keeps the focus on the place itself, which is what a prospective visitor or a couple booking a wedding venue is really trying to picture.
Yes. Once the files land in your shared folder they're yours, and you never need to check back with us before using them. The same set can run on your website, your emails, the tasting-room screens, a wine-trail or DMO listing, even a cellar-door sign; one capture usually feeds all of them. And because the capture is georeferenced, a later refresh lines up with the original, so the library builds on itself vintage to vintage.
Further reading: why an interactive 3D twin beats flat photos for a property.
More from the air program
The orthomosaic-and-twin workflow behind the estate tour does more than market a winery.
Interactive 3D twins, cinematic flythroughs, listing media, and dated property records.
Agriculture
Multispectral relative-vigor, zone maps, plant counts, and irrigation patterns, prepared for grower and agronomist review.
Request a quote
Every project starts with a short scoping conversation. We'll talk through what the tour should show, the media you want, and whether the same flights should map the vineyard too.