Why Vertical Recon
Calibrated to defend.
Inspection is easy to buy and hard to rely on. What separates a report you can cite from a folder of photographs is method, a baseline and a stated limit. Those are the things this page is about.
- Aircraft thermal sensor
- 640 × 512
- radiometric
- Spectral band
- 8–14 µm
- longwave infrared
- Pilot
- Part 107
- FAA certificated
Five things we hold to
Each one is a promise you can check against the report, not a value statement.
Standard
01
Reports that survive a challenge.
The value of an inspection is only as good as the report behind it. Ours are built to stand up when a contractor disputes a finding, an adjuster questions a claim, or a decision ends up in front of a lawyer. We document what we measured, how, and under what conditions. So the report answers questions instead of raising them.
Method
02
Calibrated instruments, named standards.
A thermal image is easy to fake and easy to misread. We calibrate our cameras, work in the conditions the method depends on, and follow published methods like ASTM C1153 and NFPA 70B. That discipline is the difference between a picture and a measurement.
Baseline
03
Your first inspection becomes your baseline.
Every inspection we do becomes a reference point. Next season, we measure change against it. You can see whether a canal leak is spreading, a wet roof area is growing, or a repair actually held. One inspection tells you the situation today. A baseline tells you the trend.
Region
04
Local and dedicated.
We’re owner-operated and based in Boise. The person who scopes your job is the person who performs it and signs the report. No rotating crew, no hand-off to someone who never saw your site. Beyond the valley we travel on scheduled trips across the Intermountain West. The window governs the flight, not the distance. And we’ll be here next year to inspect it again.
Boundary
05
We state the boundaries before you hire us.
Before we quote, we tell you plainly what this inspection can prove and what it can’t. A thermal roof scan finds probable wet insulation; confirming it takes a core sample. We’d rather set that expectation up front than oversell and disappoint. Honest limits are part of a report you can trust.
Stated before we quote.
- Mapping and modeling
- Our photogrammetric models document conditions for planning and comparison; they are not land surveys and are not offered as survey-grade or authoritative.
- Thermal findings
- Infrared locates probable moisture; cores confirm, per ASTM C1153. The same logic governs every thermal service: the scan ranks candidates, and the ground check settles them.
- Credentials
- FAA Part 107 certificated. That is the whole list, and it appears here named rather than described.
- Conditions
- Dawn, clear-sky and solar-loading conditions determine timing; we schedule backup windows. A flight outside its window produces a result that has to be caveated into uselessness, so it moves instead.
What the argument rests on
The proof is the document, not the pitch.
A report is where every claim on this site either survives or does not. Ours numbers each finding, locates it, and states the difference it measured. It marks what a crew still has to confirm on the ground.
The specimen beside this is a format demonstration, stamped inside its own frame. Judge the format now, and the capture when you commission one.
Sample deliverable
| ID | Station | ΔT °C | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANOM-01 | 14+20 | 3.1 | Verify |
| ANOM-02 | 19+60 | 2.4 | Verify |
| ANOM-03 | 26+40 | 4.2 | Verify |
Method matched to target.
The target decides the vantage point, not the other way around. Each row is something we inspect, and how.
| № | Target | Vantage point and method |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Switchgear, panels and motor control centers | On the ground. Covers off, under load, radiometric handheld scan. Every temperature difference read against a like part on the next phase. |
| 02 | Substation, transformer yard and rooftop gear | From the air, under load, with nobody inside the fence. Read against a comparable reference, the same as the room. |
| 03 | Roof | From the air after sunset for the whole-roof moisture map. On the roof with the handheld for a closer read where the map flags a zone. Cores confirm. |
| 04 | Canal reach | From the air at dawn, the whole reach in one pass. On the bank for a close look where a flagged point needs one. |
| 05 | Solar array | From the air under sun and load, module by module. On the ground for flagged strings and the combiner and inverter side. |
| 06 | Job site | From the air on a dated, repeatable route, so the next capture registers to the last. |
Next step · A free quote
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