Drone Services in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs is where the data-center corridor meets the river. We have flown active data-center construction here with an NDAA-compliant aircraft, and we fly the rest of Pottawattamie County from the same base.
Data centers and the sites around them
Data-center campuses have security rules, badge access and an aircraft policy. Our Freefly Astro Max is built in the United States, NDAA-compliant and Blue UAS listed, which is what those policies ask for. We capture construction progress, rooftop mechanical and perimeter conditions, and radiometric thermal, and deliver it inside the client's own portal under their access rules.
Our aircraft is a Freefly Astro Max, built in the United States, NDAA-compliant and Blue UAS listed. Data centers, substations, utilities and government sites that bar foreign-made drones can clear it. Survey-grade RTK positioning, a 61-megapixel camera and a radiometric thermal camera fly on the same airframe, so one flight produces the map, the model and the heat scan.
What Council Bluffs hires us for
Beyond the data centers: the industrial parks along the river and the interstate, warehouse and distribution roofs, the grain, feed and processing facilities east of town, and the farmland in between.
- Drone roof inspection — every facet measured, pitch stated as a ratio, damage photos annotated, radiometric thermal for wet insulation
- Thermal drone inspection — calibrated temperature in every pixel, hot spots and cold spots as findings, heat scans draped on the 3D model
- Drone mapping and 3D models — orthomosaic, contours, point cloud, textured model, roof outlines as CAD in your state plane
- Construction progress documentation — scheduled flights you can compare month to month
- Agriculture drone imagery — crop stress maps, spray-ready field files, drainage and terrace documentation
What you get
Everything lands in your own private portal: the map, the model, the photos with a number on every frame, findings with the photo behind each one, and a whiteboard link that walks a crew to the exact spot on a phone. Safety findings cite the OSHA standard. Drone companies can run their own business on the same portal.
Nearby
Across the river is Omaha; two hours east is Des Moines. Call or text (402) 941-4209 with what you need looked at.
Contact
Call or email and you talk to the people who fly and process the job.
Gary Ostwald — Founder / Chief Pilot · (402) 941-4209 · gary@precisionskyintelligence.ai
Tracey Stevens — Co-Founder / COO · (925) 787-3028 · tracey@precisionskyintelligence.ai
Offices in Weston, Nebraska and Dripping Springs, Texas. Service area: nationwide.
Drone mapping · thermal inspection · 3D models — delivered in your own portal.