Collect survey-grade ecological data without disturbing the habitat you’re studying. AeroSpect flies multispectral, thermal, and RGB payloads for wildlife monitoring, wetland mapping, erosion tracking, and environmental compliance across New York and beyond.
Field crews trample vegetation, flush nesting birds, and take weeks to cover a single marsh. An environmental survey drone covers the same ground in an afternoon, repeats the flight on the exact same grid next season, and never sets a boot on protected soil. That repeatability is what makes drone data defensible in a permit application or a long-term ecological study.
AeroSpect pairs FAA-certified pilots with calibrated sensors so the imagery you hand to a regulator, ecologist, or grant reviewer holds up to scrutiny. Whether you need a one-time baseline or quarterly monitoring across a remediation site, we build the flight plan, capture the data, and deliver processed maps you can drop straight into your GIS.
Multispectral imagery separates standing water, saturated soil, and upland vegetation by their reflectance signatures, not just by what the eye can see. We produce georeferenced wetland boundaries, vegetation classification layers, and orthomosaics at sub-3 cm ground resolution.
For Clean Water Act and Army Corps delineation work, that detail shortens the field-verification step and gives your delineator a head start before they ever reach the site.
Thermal sensors detect warm-bodied animals through canopy and at dawn, when traditional counts miss them. We fly deer, waterfowl, raptor-nest, and seal-haulout surveys at altitudes that keep the aircraft above the disturbance threshold for the species in question.
The result is a repeatable population count with timestamped, geotagged evidence, which beats a clipboard tally that can’t be audited later.
By flying the same coastline, streambank, or slope on a fixed schedule, we build a time series of elevation models that quantifies exactly how much material moved. Photogrammetry resolves volume change down to the cubic yard.
That trend data tells you whether a stabilization project is working and gives engineers the numbers they need before storm season.
NDVI and other multispectral indices flag plant stress weeks before it’s visible from the ground, which helps spot invasive species, drought damage, or contamination plumes spreading through root systems. Thermal data can reveal illicit discharges and thermal pollution along a waterway.
We turn those readings into stress maps and change-detection layers that pinpoint where to send a crew, instead of walking the whole parcel blind.
Five-band cameras capturing red, green, blue, red-edge, and near-infrared. These drive NDVI, NDRE, and custom indices for vegetation health, wetland classification, and crop or habitat stress mapping.
Calibrated radiometric thermal imaging for wildlife detection, thermal-pollution tracking, and discharge identification, with per-pixel temperature values you can analyze rather than just a heat picture.
Survey-grade RGB for orthomosaics and photogrammetry, plus LiDAR that penetrates canopy to model bare-earth terrain, shoreline elevation, and erosion volume.
Environmental work lives and dies by documentation. A drone ecological survey produces a continuous, geotagged record, which is far harder to dispute than spot observations from a field notebook. Every deliverable carries the capture date, coordinate system, and sensor metadata a reviewer expects.
Our pilots hold FAA Part 107 certification and we carry $10 million in liability insurance, so flying over sensitive sites, near water, or adjacent to active operations doesn’t expose your project to risk. We also coordinate airspace authorizations and work alongside environmental agency partnerships to keep monitoring programs inside their regulatory lanes.
If your program reports to a state DEC, the EPA, or the Army Corps, we format outputs to match the submission you’re working toward rather than handing you raw files to wrangle yourself.
We define the study area, target data products, and species or compliance constraints, then design a repeatable grid and altitude profile that meets them.
We secure FAA authorizations, coordinate with landowners and agencies, and confirm seasonal windows so the flight never violates a buffer or breeding restriction.
Calibrated multispectral, thermal, and RGB payloads collect the survey in a single mobilization, with ground control where survey-grade accuracy is required.
You receive orthomosaics, index maps, elevation models, and a written summary, formatted for your GIS and your reporting deadline.
Environmental monitoring often overlaps with our broader work. For terrain and orthomosaic deliverables, see our drone mapping services. Projects needing survey-grade ground control and boundary accuracy pair well with our drone surveying services. And for the full picture of what our aircraft can capture, browse our aerial drone services.
They’re aerial surveys flown specifically to collect ecological data, including wildlife counts, wetland boundaries, erosion measurements, vegetation health, and pollution indicators. The drone carries multispectral, thermal, or RGB sensors and delivers georeferenced maps instead of single photos.
With ground control points, our photogrammetry products reach a few centimeters of horizontal and vertical accuracy. Multispectral indices and thermal readings are radiometrically calibrated, so values are comparable across flights, which is what makes repeat-survey trend analysis reliable.
We fly at altitudes and approach angles chosen to stay above the disturbance threshold for the species in question, and we honor seasonal and breeding restrictions. A single overflight is far less intrusive than a ground crew walking transects through the same area.
Yes. Our pilots are FAA Part 107 certified, we secure airspace authorizations, and we carry $10 million in liability insurance. We also coordinate with landowners and environmental agencies before mobilizing.
It’s well suited to it. Every deliverable is timestamped, geotagged, and tagged with sensor metadata, and we format outputs to match the submission you’re preparing for a state DEC, the EPA, or the Army Corps.
Typical outputs include orthomosaics, NDVI and other index maps, digital elevation and surface models, thermal imagery, wetland or vegetation classification layers, and a written summary. Everything is GIS-ready in your preferred coordinate system.
As often as the program needs, from one-time baselines to weekly, monthly, or seasonal repeats. Because we save the flight plan, every return visit covers the exact same grid, which is what makes change-detection valid.
Tell us the site and the question you're trying to answer. We'll scope the right sensors, flights, and deliverables, and keep the whole program FAA-compliant and fully insured.