Environmental Consultants

Aerial and Drone Surveys

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Aerial and Drone Surveys

Efficient, accurate, reliable.  HWA utilizes aerial surveys for a variety of research applications including roosting locations, population estimation, big-game seasonal habitat use, winter concentration areas and spring breeding surveys.

When in the air, our biologists are equipped with resource-grade handheld computers with integrated GPS receivers or tablet computers with external GPS receivers for spatial data capture, attribution, editing, and  navigation.  Examples of aerial survey experience include:

  • Resource selection by greater sage-grouse during severe winter conditions, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming

  • Telemetry-based assessment of waterfowl nest depredation by mesocarnivores, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Idaho

  • Raptor nest inventory and status surveys via helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft, over 100 projects in Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado

  • Greater sage-grouse and sharp-tailed grouse lek surveys

  • GPS telemetry elk study, Raton Basin, Colorado

  • Experimental black-footed ferret surveys via helicopter, Natrona County, Wyoming

  • Mexican spotted owl habitat assessment, Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Colorado

  • Waterfowl census, Duck Valley, Idaho and Nevada

  • Mountain plover and prairie dog habitat inventory and assessment, various projects in Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana

 
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Drone Survey Services

  • Remotely piloted drone

  • High resolution photos

  • Vegetation mapping

  • Photogrammetry

  • Site inspections

  • We also provide thermal and 3D imaging, contour mapping, HDR video

  • Fast, efficient, innovative, and wider ranging survey data

  • Data that can be repeatedly reviewed

  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensed, insured, and regulatory compliant

  • Operated safely and responsibly

  • Units have obstacle detection and collision avoidance technology