AERO-ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS - November 18, 2008: Winter's on the way!
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Fall colors have given way to bare trees and traces of snow cover throughout the northland.  While some would say this is not the prettiest time of the year, there are some advantages to aerial photos taken at this time.  Ground features like trails, small drainage ways, rock outcrops and other features obscurred by thick foliage of the other seasons are now visible.

Aero-Environmental Consulting always tries to shoot aerials only during the best weather conditions.  Late fall and early winter is the most unpredictable time of the year for flight planning.  Therefore, to assure the highest quality aerial images possible it is imparative to schedule your shoots with plenty of lead time so when good conditions arrive, your site can be included in a photo mission. 

TRUE VERTICAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY:  Aero-Environmental Consulting is proud to announce that true vertical aerial photography services are now available.  After several months of development our vertical camera mount and in-aircraft monitoring system has been tested and produces great results.  With detailed flightline planning and data entry into our GPS, true vertical strip images of linear features like road construction projects are possible.  With multi-overlapping flightlines, true vertical stitched mosaics are possible for larger non-linear coverage.  Examples will be posted to the gallery in the near future.

CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS: Another high value service we provide is construction progress aerial photography.  Construction progress aerials provide excellent documentation of projects through time.  Periodic (usually at least monthly) similar views of a project keep all entities of the project team informed of the project status and can be used by project managers for planning and/or for field engineers to help contractors identify areas needing attention.  Corporate managers and stockholders, even when located far from the project location are kept well informed of the progress. 

Please check for new images posted in the Photo Gallery. The gallery is finally in the process of a complete overhaul.  Many old images have been removed and additional images of interesting cities, towns, lakes, real estate, construction projects, resort images and/or other fun images are being added just about daily until the update is completed. Please check it out periodically and enjoy. 

Aero-Environmental Consulting provides aerial photography services for public, private and commercial real estate marketing, land development planning and/or business advertisement. Graphical annotation of digital images showing property boundaries, site access roadways, surrounding recreational trails, lakes, streams, and/or any other features a client wants to help market a property or development. Annotated aerial images also highlight locations for either business promotion, development potential or sale.

Several of last years aerial images with overlayed annotated lakeshore plats have helped to sell all the available lots. We know that our real estate clients work hard to market quality properties and we strive to enhance the marketing packages for even better results. If location is the best selling point for real estate there is no better way to show a properties location than with high quality aerial imagery. Click on the Digital Photography or the Photo Gallery tab above for more examples of the potential of aerial photography for real estate marketing.

Aero-Environmental Consulting solves the problem of assessing actual "as is" conditions at project sites by providing aerial photographic enhancements for environmental site assessments, geologic and hydrogeologic investigations, wetland delineation and storm water management projects. Aerial photography for site inspection, construction progress, remediation and/or restoration compliance documentation is also provided. 

Please feel free to contact us by phone or from the "Contact Us" page of this website if you would like to discuss an aerial photography mission and/or environmental project. We would be happy to assist you with your project.

Note, all images on this website are copyrighted by Aero-Environmental Consulting and cannot be reproduced for sale by anyone other than Aero-Environmental Consulting or clients who have specifically purchased rights to reproduce the images. High resolution images and/or printed enlargements are available for purchase. 

Besides aerial photography, Aero-Environmental Consulting provides environmental services.  We provide wetland delineations, environmental assessments including, stormwater pollution prevention planning and erosion control best management practices (BMP) design for property development projects.  Please click on the Environmental tab above for more details.

We assist clients by combining technical and management experience for land development and marketing projects. We conduct environmental investigations and further assist clients with submittals for environmental assessment worksheets (EAW), wetland delineation and restoration, stormwater and erosion control planning, management and permitting. The goal of the business is to provide enhanced quality, scope and response time for conducting aerial photography and environmental consulting projects for governmental, commercial, industrial and private sector clients.

NEW Equipment:  We now have an Epson Stylus PRO 7800 large format printer that allows us to print 24 inch wide photographic prints.  Epson printers are regarded as the industry standard for quality photographic printing.  In addition we have a 24 inch wide ProSeal roller laminator that allows us to mount and laminate prints up to 24 X 36 inch on foam core boards.

Our GPS system with moving map display enhances locating and/or documenting project sites. The system's background moving map can use either an aviation database for flight operations or topographical maps for documenting site locations and/or environmental project data.

Additional notes: Aero-Environmental Consulting uses only the highest quality, professional grade, Canon "L" zoom lenses with ultrasonic motor (USM) focus and image stabilization (IS). These lenses provide the best quality images available. These lenses are used with a Canon EOS 5D digital camera. With the 5D's full frame digital CMOS sensor at 12.8 mega-pixels the image quality produced is amazing! Aero-Environmental Consulting can now produce very large prints with clarity that until recently was only available from medium format film cameras.