Re-Flights & Recurring Monitoring

One flight is a snapshot. Fly the same site on a schedule and you get something more valuable: a living, dated record of how your property changes over time. Here's how ongoing monitoring works.

What recurring monitoring is

Instead of a one-off map, we re-fly your property on a set cadence — commonly monthly, quarterly, or annually. Each new flight is captured and processed the same way as the last, so the results line up and are directly comparable. Your dashboard shows when the next flight is due, and each capture is added to your project as its own dated scan.

Why people set it up

Different industries, same core value — a current record instead of a stale one:

• Construction — a dated progress record of the whole build, flight over flight.
• Quarries & aggregates — monthly stockpile volumes you can stand behind at reconciliation; a scan that pays for itself against a single miscounted pile.
• Landfills — airspace-remaining and compaction tracked on a cadence, replacing a once-a-year manual measurement with a running record.
• Parks & venues — a dated record that tracks construction and seasonal changes between flights.
• Land & facilities — catch drainage, erosion, or vegetation encroachment early, while it's cheap to fix.

Automatic change reports

The real payoff of a cadence: change detection. When a new flight comes in, we compare it against the previous one and produce a change report — what moved, what grew, how volumes shifted. It lands automatically as a new deliverable in your viewer, so you're not eyeballing two maps side by side trying to spot the difference.

How it works on your side

1. We agree on a cadence and the area to monitor. You can monitor the whole property, or draw a specific area of interest — just the active pit, the construction footprint, the cells that matter — so reporting stays focused.
2. We fly on schedule. Each due flight is captured, processed, and added as a fresh scan. Your dashboard advertises the next flight date.
3. You get the new scan plus its change report. Everything stacks up in the same viewer, so you can step through your property's history over time.

Requesting changes from your dashboard

Once your monitoring plan is active, your dashboard adds a Monitoring section — the next-flight date plus a few self-service requests:

1. Request re-flight — ask for a fresh capture ahead of the normal schedule (before a big earthwork move, ahead of a board meeting).
2. Adjust monitored area — redraw the area of interest on your own map.
3. Change cadence — go from quarterly to monthly, or dial it back.

Every request is reviewed and approved by our team before anything changes — submitting one never automatically re-flies, changes your plan, or charges you. It just tells us what you need so we can confirm and schedule it. If you don't see a Monitoring section yet, your project isn't on a monitoring plan — just reach out and we'll set one up.

Pausing or stopping

Life happens — a project wraps, a season ends. A plan can be paused (it stays attached for history but drops out of the flight schedule and reminders) and resumed later. Pausing and resuming are handled by our team — just reach out and we'll take care of it.

Tip: Consistency is what makes a cadence powerful. Try to keep the capture window similar each time — same rough time of day and season — so changes in the report reflect your site, not just the light or the leaves.

Tip: Not sure a full cadence is worth it yet? Start with one flight now. If the map proves its value, we can fold that same site into a monitoring plan later and keep it comparable going forward.