Find what’s buried, leaking, or failing — before it becomes a costly emergency
They develop underground, out of sight, and quietly escalate into downtime, safety risks, or emergency repairs.
Aerial Insights LLC helps organizations detect hidden infrastructure risks early by identifying the surface signals they leave behind — heat, moisture, vegetation stress, and ground change — using advanced drone sensing and RTK positioning.
This is preventative intelligence, not reactive inspection.
The Problem with Traditional Inspections
Many organizations lack clear answers to critical questions:
- Where legacy utilities actually run
- Which buried lines are leaking or failing
- Where erosion, voids or subsurface instability are developing
- What assets exist but aren’t documented
Traditional methods rely on:
- Old drawings
- Reactive repairs
- Costly exploratory excavation
- Visual inspections that miss subsurface indicators
By the time a problem is visible, it’s usually expensive.
Our Solution: Invisible Asset Discovery
We identify subsurface and hidden infrastructure issues by detecting the surface indicators they create:
- Thermal signatures
- Moisture patterns
- Vegetation stress
- Subtle terrain or ground changes
This allows you to narrow inspections, prioritize repairs, and reduce guesswork before failure occurs.
What We Detect
🔥 Thermal Anomalies
- Underground water or steam leaks
- Heat loss from buried utilities
- Moisture intrusion before surface damage
🌱 Vegetation Stress Patterns
- Hidden leaks causing abnormal growth
- Drain tile or irrigation failures
- Subsurface erosion or soil instability
📍 RTK-Accurate Asset Location
- Centimeter-level positioning
- Defensible locations for excavation or inspection
- Repeatable monitoring over time
What You Receive
You don’t get raw drone files
You get decision-ready intelligence:
- Georeferenced discovery maps
- Flagged anomaly zones (ranked by severity)
- Priority inspection or excavation targets
- Executive summary (clear, non-technical)
- Optional repeat monitoring for verification
Best Fit For
- Municipalities & Public Works
- Locate leaks, undocumented infrastructure, and risk zones before failures impact the public.
- Industrial & Manufacturing Facilities
- Identify energy loss, buried utility issues, and subsurface risks without disrupting operations.
- Quarries & Mines
- Detect drainage failures, void development, and legacy infrastructure tied to safety and compliance.
- Agriculture & Large Properties
- Find irrigation leaks, drain failures, and subsurface issues affecting yield and land value.
How the Process Works
1. Initial consultation (site history + concerns)
2. Drone-based sensing (thermal, multispectral, RTK)
3. Analysis & anomaly identification
4. Clear reporting with recommended next steps
5. Optional follow-up monitoring or validation
Engagement Options
Discovery Assessment: $1,500 – $3,000
Ideal for initial anomaly detection.
Ideal for initial anomaly detection.
Advanced Discovery & Validation: $3,500 – $6,000
RTK-backed, multi-sensor analysis with severity ranking.
RTK-backed, multi-sensor analysis with severity ranking.
Enterprise / Municipal Programs: $7,500+
Multi-area, repeat monitoring, stakeholder-ready reporting.
Multi-area, repeat monitoring, stakeholder-ready reporting.
(Pricing depends on site size and complexity.)
Why Aerial Insights LLC
Anyone can fly a drone.
We specialize in finding problems that aren’t supposed to be visible yet.
We specialize in finding problems that aren’t supposed to be visible yet.
Our focus is:
- Prevention over reaction
- Accuracy over assumptions
- Intelligence over imagery
Don’t wait for a buried problem to surface on its own.
Request an Invisible Asset Discovery assessment and get clarity before failure.
Request an Invisible Asset Discovery assessment and get clarity before failure.
Serving municipal, industrial, and land-based operations across Northwest Ohio and beyond.