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Drones offer an amazing opportunity to capture a portrait of your home from an aerial perspective without the previously high costs associated with photography from a traditional piloted aircraft. Domestic house portraits make a wonderful gift, an invaluable tool in selling your home or just a beautiful memento of a place that you care about very much. Drone Media Imaging work to capture both still and video images of your home across Sussex, Surrey and Kent [...]

Thermal imaging cameras can turn the infrared radiation reflected off by all objects into a picture which presents this information visually. This can have so many applications. Insulation Inspection Solar Panel Inspection – either domestic or commercial Identifying Heat Loss and Thermal Bridging Roof Inspections HVAC Inspections Search and Rescue Electrical Equipment Assessment Contrary to many movies, a thermal camera can’t be used to see through walls which means they are of no use in spying on your neighbours [...]

We were delighted to be invited to come and film alongside the team from the BBC's The One Show down at the Swanage Railway. We were part of an article that they were creating regarding the rejoining of the Swanage train station to the main railway line, something that's been achieved through a huge amount of work by a team of volunteers in a large part.  We were to provide aerial footage of the beautiful steam engine puffing [...]

Country House Roof Inspection Our client asked us to survey a roof that was leaking, and with our Zenmuse z30 high powered zoom along with thermal cameras, we were able to help identify the problem. The work took a couple of hours and a handful of flights, on a showery day. Using the software from Scopito we were able to complete a full report with detailed images showing the problems for the roof [...]

Drone Media Imaging are based in Sussex but operate nationwide with our state of the art equipment, including our high end thermal imaging camera  - the ZenMuse which combines the thermal imaging capabilities of FLIR with the gimbal stabilisation of DJI to provide high quality, rapidly deployable aerial thermal images which can be used for many purposes. The seamless integration between the camera and the drone means that real time configuration and control is possible at the touch [...]

Wind turbines are becoming increasingly popular as a sustainable energy source across the UK and indeed across the world. The nature of those giant rotating blades however means that performing regular inspections and preventative maintenance can pose a real problem, as can the fact that a breakdown can cause a great deal of time, money and in some cases, such as with a breakaway blade, physical danger. The wind turbine is fitted with three rotor blades to allow [...]

Fantastic Christmas Present Option If you are struggling for a unique Christmas present for your Mum and Dad this year, how about an Aerial House Portrait? Our Gift Certificate vouchers are a set price and offer the recipient 5 Digital Images (including Roof Thermal Images) and a nice and simple 'Flyby' video film of the chosen property. Flights are usually 30 to 60 minutes in duration which is enough time to capture the home from many different angles and [...]

How can drones help with property inspections? There is almost no end to the areas of commerce and industry where visual inspections of one kind or another play an important role. Where these inspections take place at height or in other inaccessible areas, drones can provide a practical and cost-effective alternative to using the actual eyes of the inspector. Where a UAV is deployed, the images and /or footage replace the inspector’s vision [...]