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Site Orthomosaic & RTK Precision Mapping

A map of your site
you can measure from.

Overhead imagery stitched into one high-resolution map of the whole site, flown on a date you choose. Pull distances, areas and counts straight off it — at standard accuracy for planning and estimating, or RTK-corrected when the numbers need to be tighter.

From $499 standard  ·  From $999 RTK precision

Two tiers

How accurate do your numbers need to be?

Both tiers produce a measurable map of your site. The difference is how the imagery is positioned — and therefore how much weight the measurements will carry downstream.

Standard Orthomosaic
$499 starting

The whole site in one image, with measurements good enough to plan and estimate from.

  • Stitched overhead map of the full site, high resolution
  • Measure distances, areas and counts directly off the map
  • Accuracy is relative to the imagery — working figures, not tied to survey control
  • Dated capture, so you know exactly when it was flown
  • Delivered as high-resolution image files by secure link

Right for site planning, staging and laydown, coordination, owner updates, and point-in-time records.

Higher Accuracy
RTK Precision Orthomosaic
$999 starting

Flown with RTK positioning, so the map is geo-referenced to centimeter-level control rather than estimated from the imagery alone.

  • Everything in the standard tier
  • RTK-corrected capture — centimeter-level positioning on every frame
  • Geo-referenced output, so the map lines up with your other site data
  • Measurements suitable for engineering coordination, quantity estimating and as-built documentation
  • Repeat flights align to each other, so change over time is measurable

Right when someone downstream is going to rely on the numbers — a design team, a subcontractor, a project owner.

Neither tier is a survey. RTK buys accuracy, not legal standing — see below.

Where the line is

Measurement, yes. Surveying, no.

The distinction isn’t whether you can measure — you can, at both tiers. It’s whether the result carries professional certification. It doesn’t, and no amount of accuracy changes that.

What you can do with it
  • Measure distances, areas and counts across the site
  • Estimate quantities and material for planning and bidding
  • Coordinate layout, staging, access and phasing
  • Compare two dated captures to see what changed
  • Document as-built conditions for your own project record
  • Share and mark up a current picture of the whole site
What it cannot be used for
  • Boundary determination, property lines or corners
  • Easements, rights-of-way or encroachment determinations
  • Plats, legal descriptions or anything recorded
  • Certified, sealed, stamped or signed deliverables
  • Any purpose requiring a licensed professional surveyor
  • Design or construction work that requires certified survey data
Scope of service

We are not a surveying firm

What it’s for

Four jobs these maps do well

Coordination

Site planning & staging

Where laydown goes, where trailers sit, how traffic moves, which access points actually work — and how much room each of those takes. Measuring off one shared overhead image settles those conversations faster than describing them.

Estimating

Quantities & takeoffs

Area of a pad, length of a run, footprint of a structure, count of what’s on site. Standard accuracy is fine for a working estimate; RTK is the call when the figure goes into a bid someone will hold you to.

Reporting

Owner and lender updates

A whole-site image at a known date tells people who aren’t on site more than a schedule does. Pairs naturally with progress documentation flown on the same visit.

Record

As-built & point-in-time documentation

What the site looked like on a given day — before mobilization, at a phase change, at closeout. With RTK, repeat flights align to each other, so change between two dates is measurable rather than just visible.

Who orders these

Mostly people with more site than they can see

Municipal and public works projects are welcome — we’ve done corridor documentation for a Tri-State town. Tell us the project and we’ll tell you honestly which tier fits, or whether you need a surveyor instead of us.

Pricing

Priced by site and by tier

Coverage area drives the flight, so acreage is the main variable. Both starting rates cover sites up to about five acres. No subscription, no minimum.

Standard Orthomosaic
$499

Measurable site map at standard accuracy

RTK Precision
$999

RTK-corrected, geo-referenced, tighter tolerances

Larger, multi-site or recurring? Sites beyond about five acres, multi-site programs and scheduled repeat captures are quoted individually — send the addresses and how often you want them flown.

Already running progress documentation? A map flown on the same visit costs less than a separate trip.

How it works

Send the site, pick a tier

1

Tell Us the Site

Address, rough acreage, what the numbers are for, and when you need it. That last part usually decides the tier — we’ll say which one you actually need.

2

We Fly the Grid

An FAA-licensed pilot flies a planned overlapping pattern, RTK-corrected on the precision tier. Scheduled around your operations and coordinated so we’re not working over active crews.

3

You Get the Map

Frames are stitched, checked and delivered by secure link. Processing takes longer than a straight photo job, and the RTK tier longer still — worth knowing when you plan around it.

Straight answers

The questions that decide this

Is this a survey? Can I use it for property lines?

No, to both, at either tier. Docu-Fly is not a licensed surveying firm and does not provide land surveying services. Nothing we produce is certified, sealed or stamped, and none of it may be used to establish boundaries, corners, easements or legal descriptions. RTK improves accuracy; it does not confer professional certification, and no amount of precision substitutes for a licensed surveyor’s seal. If your project needs certified data or a recorded boundary, hire a surveyor — we’ll happily hand them our imagery.

So can I actually take measurements off it, or not?

Yes. Both tiers produce a measurable map — distances, areas, counts, footprints. On the standard tier, treat those as working figures: accurate enough to plan, stage, estimate and coordinate from. On the RTK tier the positioning is much tighter, which is what you want when the number leaves your hands and someone else relies on it. What neither tier gives you is a certified number.

Which tier do I need?

Ask what happens to the number. If it’s informing your own planning, staging or a ballpark estimate, standard at $499 is the right size. If it’s going into a bid, a design coordination package, a quantity someone gets paid against, or an as-built record you’ll compare future flights to, pay for RTK. When you tell us what the map is for, we’ll tell you which one — including when the cheaper one is fine.

What does RTK actually change?

On a standard flight, the drone’s position on each frame comes from ordinary GPS, and the software reconciles the rest from the imagery. With RTK, the aircraft receives a live correction stream and records centimeter-level positioning on every frame, so the finished map is geo-referenced rather than inferred. Practically: measurements hold up better, the map lines up with your other site data, and repeat flights align to each other.

Do you publish an accuracy tolerance?

Not as a blanket number, because real-world accuracy depends on the site, the flight plan, ground conditions and how much of the site is obstructed. Tell us what tolerance your use actually requires and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can meet it on your site — and if we can’t, we’ll say so rather than deliver something that misses.

How big a site can you cover?

Both starting rates cover sites up to roughly five acres. Larger is quoted — coverage area drives flight time and processing, so a thirty-acre site is a different job rather than the same job with a bigger number.

What if part of the site is obstructed?

Heavy tree canopy, permanent structures or anything else we can’t see over gets flagged rather than filled in. An overhead map can’t show what’s underneath something, and we’d rather tell you what’s obscured than let you assume it isn’t.

Can you fly an active jobsite?

Yes. FAA Part 107 licensed, fully insured, scheduled around your operations and coordinated with your site so we’re not overflying active crews. We handle airspace authorization, which a fair number of Tri-State addresses need because of the airport.

Tell us what the numbers are for.

That’s the question that picks the tier, and we’d rather ask it than sell you the expensive one by default. Send the address and what you’re trying to do with the map.

Get started

Tell us about your property

Share what you need documented and we’ll reply with a quote and the next available flight window. Most requests are scheduled within the week.

Prefer to talk? Call or text 844-362-8359.

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Docu-Fly provides aerial documentation and mapping services only. We are not a licensed surveying firm and do not provide land surveying services. Our maps and any measurements derived from them are for planning, estimating, coordination and documentation purposes, are not certified, sealed or stamped, and may not be used to establish property boundaries, corners, easements or legal descriptions. Work requiring certified survey data must be performed by a licensed professional surveyor.

Docu-Fly documents properties across the Greater Cincinnati Tri-State Area from Burlington, KY.
A division of CM Drone Services LLC.