Aerial data deliverables explained

The flight is only half the job. The other half is handing you artifacts your editor, CAD tech, or claims coordinator can open without calling IT. We default to boring, organized deliverables — on purpose.

Stills: RAW, JPEG, and DNG tradeoffs

RAW preserves dynamic range for difficult lighting; JPEG speeds sharing. Tell us your downstream. Inspection clients often want bracketed stills; marketing clients often want graded JPEGs or Rec.709 video grabs.

Video codecs and proxies

10-bit log profiles grade nicely but confuse non-editors. H.264/H.265 masters are smaller. If you need broadcast intermediates, say so up front — we align bitrate and resolution to your finishing house.

Geospatial exports

Orthomosaics and point clouds belong to photogrammetry pipelines; see surveying and photogrammetry. We can coordinate CRS hints and tile sizing when your GIS lead gives a spec.

Mozilla’s web media documentation is a neutral explainer for how browsers think about video containers — handy when your deliverable must stream from a portal instead of a drive.

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