Inspection & Analysis
Mapping & Modeling
Agriculture & Livestock
FAA Part 107 & 91 · Est. Northwest Arkansas
Unmanned aerial services
High-accuracy geospatial mapping, LiDAR and thermal inspection data for construction, earthwork and land teams across nine states — captured, processed and delivered CAD-ready.
Coverage
AR · CO · IL · KS · LA · MS · MO · OK · TX
Certification
FAA Part 107 & Part 91
Sensors
RGB · Thermal · Multispectral · LiDAR
Output
Ortho · Point cloud · DTM/DSM · Mesh
01 — Services
Every flight ends
in a deliverable
Solar array thermography, high-accuracy mapping, construction monitoring, multispectral crop analysis and livestock inventory. The capture is the easy part; the data you can actually work from is the point.
Solar Thermal Inspection
Radiometric thermal sweeps across arrays, finding hot cells, failed diodes, string faults and cracked modules before they cost you generation.
02 RGB + LiDAR
Mapping & Geospatial Analysis
Orthomosaics, terrain models and high-accuracy measurement from high-resolution RGB and laser capture.
03 Scheduled
Construction Monitoring
Dated orthomosaics, 3D models and thermal passes on a weekly or monthly cadence, reviewable from anywhere.
04 Thermal
Thermal Roof Inspection
Heat loss, trapped moisture and failing membrane, found from altitude long before any of it is visible from the ground.
05 NDVI / NDRE
Multispectral Analysis
Crop vigour, stress and stand-count indices across a whole field — variability you can act on, not sample and guess at.
06 Livestock
Domestic Herd Inventory
Accurate head counts across pasture and range, flown in a fraction of the time a ground count takes and without moving the herd.
07 Thermal census
Large Game Herd Analysis
Thermal population counts for deer and other large game — herd size, distribution and density across a property, day or night.
08 Cut / Fill
Volumetrics
Stockpile and earthwork volumes from 2D and 3D site models, so material is measured rather than estimated.
09 Pre-design
Site Scouting
Topographic analysis of a prospective parcel in hours rather than weeks — accurate even through vegetation.
10 Night-capable
Lost Pet & Game Recovery
Thermal search for wounded deer, elk and moose — or a missing pet — in dense cover and after dark.
02 — Progress
The same acre,
five months apart
Differential orthographic imagery, hosted and dated. Anywhere you have a phone and a connection, you can see exactly where the project stands — and prove it to everyone who needs to know.
- Cadence
- Weekly · Semi-weekly · Monthly
- Delivery
- Web portal · CAD export
- Attached
- Safety & progression report
Before
After
Fig. 02 — Drag to compare · differential orthomosaic
03 — LiDAR
Strip the canopy,
keep the ground
Point cloud classified into ground and everything else. Remove “everything else” and true ground contour is exposed — imported straight into CAD for planning, drainage and grade.
04 — Capabilities
One flight,
many deliverables
Photography, photogrammetry, orthomosaic mapping, thermal imaging, multispectral analysis and LiDAR — one mobilization producing data for sales, research, planning and development.
Imagery
Orthomosaic · Oblique · Thermal · NDVI
Surfaces
DTM · DSM · Contour · Hillshade · Planimetrics
Geometry
Point cloud · Textured mesh · 3D model
Measurement
Cut/fill · Stockpile · Distance · Area
LiDAR payload
8
Returns per pulse
2.2M
Returns per second
One of the highest-specification LiDAR units on the market. That return density is what lets us resolve accurate ground under double and triple canopy — terrain photogrammetry alone simply cannot see.
Fig. 03 — Field capture, NW Arkansas
05 — Coverage
Complete coverage
in nine states
Most of our pilots hold both manned and remote certificates, so controlled airspace is routine — DFW, Little Rock, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Kansas City and St. Louis included.
- Arkansas HQ
- Colorado CO
- Illinois IL
- Kansas KS
- Louisiana LA
- Mississippi MS
- Missouri MO
- Oklahoma OK
- Texas TX
Fig. 04 — M350 on station, NW Arkansas
06 — About
Pioneering
aerial solutions
Drones Inbound stands at the forefront of the drone services industry, offering solutions that unlock the full potential of aerial imaging technology.
Enterprise hardware, current processing software and pilots who have flown commercially — delivering precision capture, integrated deliverables and fast turnaround to teams that have to make decisions on them.
More about us07 — Why Drones Inbound
Certification
FAA certificated
Part 107 and Part 91 certificated pilots, licensed and insured for commercial flight operations.
Equipment
Enterprise hardware
Enterprise airframes for video, photogrammetry, multispectral and LiDAR capture, producing geospatially accurate imagery that drops into your CAD and rendering software.
Experience
Airspace fluency
Commercial flight experience means proper execution and timely results in high-traffic airspace — and the approvals to operate legally in virtually any of it.
08 — Published
The Fundamentals of Drone Photogrammetry, Mapping, and Survey
A working guide to drone-based geospatial analysis: hardware from consumer to enterprise, payloads across RGB, multispectral, thermal and LiDAR, and the camera mechanics, sensor behaviour and RTK/PPK positioning behind high-fidelity capture.
By Thomas Dowell
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09 — Capabilities index
Everything we're
asked for, by name
Drones Inbound is not a licensed land surveying firm. We produce the aerial and geospatial data that licensed surveyors, civil engineers, contractors and land managers work from — and we work alongside your surveyor rather than in place of one.
LiDAR & photogrammetry
Aerial LiDAR · drone LiDAR mapping · laser scanning · classified point cloud · bare earth extraction · canopy penetration · DTM · DSM · digital elevation model · contour generation · hillshade · planimetrics · photogrammetry · structure from motion · RTK · PPK · ground control points · georeferenced imagery · GIS data
Mapping & measurement
Aerial mapping · drone mapping · orthomosaic imaging · orthorectified imagery · topographic mapping · terrain modeling · aerial survey data for licensed surveyors · drone survey support · land survey support · civil engineering support · site plans · as-built documentation · 3D structure modeling · textured mesh · digital twin · asset digital replication
Construction & earthwork
Construction progress monitoring · project monitoring · site documentation · earthwork measurement · cut and fill analysis · stockpile volume · volumetric analysis · aggregate and quarry measurement · mine planning · grade verification · drainage analysis · site logistics planning · pre-construction site scouting
Thermal & inspection
Solar thermal inspection · solar farm inspection · PV array thermography · hot cell detection · bypass diode failure · string and combiner faults · module-level anomaly report · O&M support · thermal roof inspection · roof moisture detection · heat loss survey · radiometric thermal imaging · infrared inspection · building and facade inspection · tower and infrastructure inspection · insurance risk assessment · storm damage documentation
Agriculture
Multispectral analysis · NDVI mapping · NDRE · GNDVI · crop health analysis · crop stress detection · precision agriculture · variable rate prescription · management zones · stand count · forage and pasture assessment · irrigation inspection · agricultural infrastructure inspection · livestock herd inventory · cattle counting · thermal head count
Wildlife, land & recovery
Large game herd analysis · thermal deer census · whitetail population count · elk and mule deer census · buck to doe ratio · wildlife thermal survey work · habitat and browse assessment · hog population counts · lost pet drone search · missing dog thermal search · wounded game recovery · deer recovery · night thermal search · environmental monitoring · environmental impact assessment · parking and traffic flow analysis
FAA Part 107 & Part 91 certificated · licensed and insured · Arkansas · Colorado · Illinois · Kansas · Louisiana · Mississippi · Missouri · Oklahoma · Texas
Ask us how we can help
with your next project
Send the location and what you need to know about it. We will tell you the right capture, the deliverable and the number — usually same day.