Aerial video of a trap site near Alturas, California

Capture

One day on site, with 47 aerial stills flown between 19 and 40 m above takeoff and 34 clips. The low working height is what separates this set from the others: it is the closest flying of the seven gathers.

Flown with a DJI Phantom 4 Pro (FC6310, 1-inch 20 MP RGB, 8.8 mm lens), firmware v01.07.1641 – the same airframe used on every company flight in the archive. Video at 4096 × 2160 and 59.94 fps; stills at 5472 × 3078. Flying was oblique and hand-flown around working stock rather than on a grid, with the pilot in command keeping the aircraft clear of the animals and the crew throughout. Conditions were daylight VFR with low wind and good visibility, on the operator’s record; the archive holds no weather log.

Deliverables

One edited 4K reel of 1 min 38 s with 30 stills. 65 files were delivered in total, as MP4 (H.264) and JPG.

Cadence

One day on site, the last of seven gathers filmed for this operator.

Method boundary

This is aerial video and still photography for documentation and presentation. It is not mapping. The footage is not georeferenced beyond the aircraft's own position tags, nothing is measured from it, and no accuracy is claimed. Where a scaled site record was needed on these contracts, a separate mapping flight was flown. Anything requiring measured positions or professional responsibility is routed through a licensed Professional Land Surveyor.