Know what your drone can see. Prove what it can’t.
We survey the site, compute what your camera can reach from every position the aircraft is permitted to fly, and hand you three things: the exact limits to configure, a verification flight that proves they hold, and a written record that stands up in public.
Commissioned Observation Set
Revision 2 · surveyed 14 March
- Position 4: athletic field, north
Altitude 120 ft · maximum outward tilt 22°
Frames: Field surface and the north fence line
Cannot frame: 1200–1226 Oak, at every permitted angle
- Position 5: bus loop
Altitude 90 ft · maximum outward tilt 31°
Frames: Loop, the approach lane and the east doors
Cannot frame: Residential frontage on Marsh Street
Six positions in total. That is the whole list.
Example excerpt from an assessment. The addresses are invented.
What a boundary line doesn’t do
Every drone system has a geofence that keeps the aircraft over your own land. It is necessary, it works, and it is not the same thing as limiting what the camera can see.
Side view. The aircraft stays inside the property line, but its camera can still be pointed past it and over a neighboring house. The shaded area is what it is commissioned to observe.
Same aircraft. Same position. Both of these are inside the property line. A boundary drawn on a map limits where the aircraft is. It does not limit what the camera sees.
The geofence is working.
It holds the aircraft over your own land, and every system has one. Nothing in this picture is broken, misconfigured, or anyone’s fault.
The camera is not inside it.
A gimbal tilts and a lens zooms. A boundary drawn on a map has no opinion about either, so the frame crosses a line the aircraft never does.
The envelope is what we establish.
The limit moves from where the aircraft sits to how far the camera can reach, and it stops where your property does, at every angle the camera can be pointed.
What we do
We survey your site and establish, position by position, what your aircraft can and cannot see from each place it is permitted to fly.
Where your platform supports it, those limits are set in the aircraft rather than written in a policy, so the camera cannot be pointed past them. Where it does not, we document the envelope, verify it in flight, and tell you plainly which is which.
Most of the work is done before anyone arrives on site. The flying is done by your operator, with your aircraft.
How an assessment runs
1
Desk work first.
We model the site from parcel boundaries, elevation data and your camera specifications, before anyone travels.
2
One site visit.
Half a day. A mapping flight by your operator, and ground checks on whatever the public data missed.
3
The computation.
For every position the aircraft can occupy, what the camera can frame and where that falls against your property line.
4
The settings.
The altitude and tilt ceiling for each position, in the terms your platform accepts, plus the written record of what each one can and cannot frame.
5
Verification.
Your operator flies each position while we confirm the real footprint matches the model.
What it asks of you: half a day of site access and an hour with whoever operates the aircraft. Nothing is installed, nothing is replaced, and your system keeps working the way it does today.
What you get
A short document you can hand to anyone who asks. Every position the aircraft is approved to observe from, what each one can see, and what each one cannot, named specifically, including which neighboring properties stay outside the frame at every angle the camera can reach.
Plus a record of each flight, showing it stayed inside those limits.
Written to be read aloud at a public meeting, not interpreted by an engineer.
Commissioned positions: northwest perimeter, main entry, field and bleachers, main lot, bus loop, service drive.
A commissioned position set. Finite, surveyed, and short enough to hand to a council.
Why it has to be independent
An assessment from the company that sold you the system is worth less, and everyone in the room knows it.
We don’t sell drones.
No hardware, no platform, no reseller agreement. Nothing we recommend puts money in our pocket.
We don’t fly them.
Your operator flies, or your contracted operator does. We hold no flight authority and want none.
We won’t replace your system.
The assessment works with the aircraft you already own and the vendor you already chose.
Who this is for
Law enforcement agencies
Drone as First Responder programs going to a council for approval, or back for an expansion. The question gets asked in public, by people with a vote.
Campuses and institutions
Universities, districts and large campuses whose own written policy already requires every flight to be evaluated for privacy impact, with no method for doing it.
Houses of worship and faith campuses
A sanctuary, a parochial school, or a property holding both. Congregations have specific and well-founded concerns about being watched at worship, which raises the stakes on answering well rather than lowering them.
What an assessment does not do
Not every platform can enforce a camera limit.
Position and altitude fences are near-universal. Gimbal limits depend on the SDK your vendor exposes. Where enforcement is not available, we say so and the assessment becomes documentation and verification rather than a hard stop.
An assessment is a measurement, not a guarantee.
We publish an error budget covering position, altitude, pointing, terrain and parcel accuracy, and we state the margin we work to. A result without its uncertainty is not worth much in a hearing.
We assess what the system can see, not how it is used.
Policy, retention, access and discipline are yours. We bound the capability and record the flights. What your organization does with that is a separate question.
Request a briefing
Tell us what you fly, where your property lines run, and who has already asked you the question. We’ll tell you honestly whether an assessment is worth your time.