Professional Aerial Field Services™
CropCopters partners with surveyors, engineers, environmental consultants, architects, geomatics firms, and other professional service providers as their aerial data acquisition team, delivering field-ready, format-compatible deliverables that integrate seamlessly into your existing workflow. Your clients will never know it wasn't in-house.
Why Professional Firms Partner With CropCopters
Why?
Capacity pressures, tight deadlines, and specialized payload requirements strain even well-equipped teams. Rather than investing capital in LiDAR, thermal, or RTK-mapping hardware you use intermittently, or turning down work when your field crews are already committed, CropCopters steps in as your aerial data acquisition subcontractor for a single overflow project or as an ongoing extension of your field capacity.
We don't replace your professional judgment, we supply the data it runs on. You remain the certifying professional; we're the specialist who gets you accurate, deadline-ready field data using equipment and payload combinations most firms don't own outright.
Who We Partner With
Civil and structural engineering firms have their own dedicated program, see Engineering Intelligence for that relationship specifically. Every other professional category below is served directly through this partnership program.
Partner Program Tiers
1
Registered Partner
No minimum commitment
Standard quoted pricing. Standard 5-7 business day turnaround. Access to the full deliverable catalogue and all payload types. The entry point for a first project or occasional overflow support.
2
Preferred Partner
10+ projects per year, committed volume agreement
10% off standard pricing.
Priority scheduling with 3-5 business day standard turnaround. A dedicated account contact who already knows your formatting and delivery preferences, so you're not re-explaining your requirements on every job.
3
Strategic Partner
30+ projects per year or annual volume agreement
Custom negotiated rates, typically 15-20% below standard pricing.
Guaranteed rapid mobilization, 24-48 hours for urgent jobs. Dedicated account engineer. Priority access to specialized payloads during high-demand periods. White-label deliverable formatting available, so reports and datasets carry your firm's branding, not ours.
Partner Program Tiers
Volume-based, mirroring how subcontractor relationships actually mature in this industry, the more consistently you send us work, the more it's worth investing in making your projects fast and frictionless.
How It Works
1. Scope the job.
Tell us the deliverable type, area or asset count, accuracy requirement, and deadline, most quotes turn around within one business day.
2. We mobilize.
DJI Matrice 400 RTK platform with Zenmuse L3 LiDAR, Zenmuse H30T thermal/RGB, and dedicated multispectral capability, deployed to your site on your timeline.
3. You receive field-ready data.
Processed through DJI Terra in the formats your workflow already uses, point clouds, orthomosaics, DEMs, GIS-ready exports, ready to drop into your own analysis, design, or certification process.