The grounds team wanted a clean overhead baseline of every hole and green — turf condition, drainage patterns, bunker edges — data they could actually measure against, not just eyeball from a cart.
The club side wanted something different: aerial imagery of the property at its best — clubhouse, grounds, and courses — for marketing and member communications.
Usually that's two vendors and two site visits. It doesn't have to be.
This is the Scope step of our S.I.T.E. Method. We built 40+ pre-planned flight plans — one for every hole and every green on the two courses we flew — plus a separate pass for the clubhouse and grounds. Airspace checked, batteries staged, capture order sequenced around tee times.
Why per-hole flight plans matter: they're repeatable. When the club wants next season's baseline, we re-fly the exact same plans — and every image lines up with this year's for a true before-and-after.
Capture ran through a single day — 5,800+ images across 40+ passes, every one tagged with RTK-corrected positioning, worked around play so members never noticed. The club received:
A stitched, to-scale overhead map of every hole and green — turf stress, drainage patterns, and bunker edges visible in one clean view. Organized by hole, so the superintendent pulls up exactly what's needed. And because the flight plans are saved, the next capture is directly comparable.
A curated library of high-resolution aerial stills — clubhouse, grounds, signature holes — ready for the website, member communications, and marketing. Shot in the same visit, on the same day rate, with no second mobilization.
A one-off aerial shoot gives you pictures. A structured, per-hole capture gives you a baseline — the reference every future flight gets measured against. Turf recovery, drainage work, renovation progress: with repeatable flight plans, the change is visible, not debatable.
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