Aerial documentation of a gather in Smith Creek Valley, Nevada

Capture

Nine days on site, the longest single deployment in the archive. Twenty-seven aerial stills were made at a median 77 m above takeoff, with 79 clips. The overhead frames show the whole pen system in one shot, which is what the operator wanted for its own records.

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 instead of 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 3 min 48 s – the longest edit delivered on any of these jobs – with 45 stills and supporting clips. Formats: MP4 (H.264) and JPG.

Cadence

One trip, nine days on site, the longest single deployment of the 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.