Aerial video of a gather near Pioche, Nevada

Capture

Two days on site, with 30 stills flown between 12 and 119 m above takeoff and 227 clips – the largest raw clip count of any gather in the archive. A separate mapping flight of the same trap site was flown on the same trip and is kept as its own record.

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

4K clips of 4 to 18 s each, cut for the operator’s own presentation use, with 14 edited stills, 15 raw stills and one technical imagery frame. 111 files were delivered in total, as MP4 (H.264) and JPG.

Cadence

One trip, two days on site, flown as part of a run of seven gathers for this operator. The mapping deliverables from the same trip are a separate record.

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.