In-Field Drone Support
Supporting rangers get in the air with training grounded in your land management projects on Country.
Using a drone to survey and collect data through photo imagery or video footage can be a low-cost and low-risk way to assist you in your care for Country. Instead of spending time driving and walking long distances, bringing your Elders who are less mobile into the field, or trying to access areas that aren’t safe for you or your team, you can use a drone.
If you’re working towards targets in your Healthy Country Plan, Winyama can build an introductory training around one of your key priorities. For example, if your team has been rehabilitating a certain area of Country, we can create applicable training for capturing imagery and footage that can be used in reports to secure further funding. Or, perhaps you are working on protecting areas along your coastline, we can work together on capturing and processing that data for modelling and analysis.
Sessions can be built around:
Introductory Drone Flight and In-Field Support
Site and field inspections
Animal tracking
Canopy surveying
You'll gain hands-on flying experience through work that aligns with your Healthy Country Plan, learn key concepts (without the jargon) and how to identify hazards and risks for flight.
This in-field drone support is a great starting point for any group who’d like to build drone capability amongst their team and identify their internal drone champions who can go on to complete their RePL and ReOC.
Ranger groups will generally reach a point where they will need to have pilots who hold a RePL certification. Without one, pilots cannot perform any fee-for-service work, secure insurance coverage, and may be severely limited in how much aerial work they can perform for their organisation.
If you’re unsure how or whether this applies to your group, reach out to our team for a yarn.
If you have identified drone champions amongst your team, and you know this is an area of growth for your organisation, it might be time to consider qualification.
RePL Certification Support
Grady is the ReOC-qualified Chief Drone Pilot at Winyama. He is supported by four other RePL-certified pilots on our team. While we are most familiar with the DJI enterprise suite, we are flexible across other models.
Our Pilots
Our capabilities span the full data pipeline from flight preparation, data capture, processing and outputs including:
2D orthomosaics, stills and video.
2.5D outputs like digital surface models and digital terrain models with raster values.
3D models with surface rendering of terrain structures.
Our Capabilities
If you’re looking for a partner who can support you grow drone capability amongst your ranger teams, reach out to Winyama.