Have you ever opened Google Earth to look for something in particular, and instead ended up spending the afternoon looking at stuff? Yeah, me too. It's an amazing program that offers a seldom seen, and very useful, view to the public. For me, the first thing I ever looked up on Google Earth was my house, then our studio. Have you done that? Here's a question for you - how old is the image of your home or business? The imagery for my neighborhood is pretty recent for Google Earth - almost four years old. I did live there then, but 3 of my neighbors didn't. It's even before I redid much of the landscaping around the house, including the new garden area. If you live in a new development, chances are pretty good that Google doesn't even show your home, maybe not even the road you live on! It's not really a big deal if all you're doing is just looking at stuff, but what if you need a current image? Or one with more resolution?
In the above picture, notice the strange color of the Google image on the left. Also, our image on the right shows the completed hangar, updated runway markings and it's much sharper and more detailed - you can actually see the taxi way markings and tie down areas.
There are many uses for vertical aerial photography, including: city development planning, construction planning and progress monitoring and reporting, property management, real estate sales and marketing, various environmental uses such as wetland monitoring and burn area documentation, accident scene re-creation, mapping, etc. We recently had a client that needed updated images to match existing vertical photography from ten and twenty years ago for use in a lawsuit. Another client needed large prints of his property to show the city council that his plans for a new home did not cross into a local stream. A local church that had just finished an expansion needed current images to show their parishioners the progress that had been made, and outline plans for future expansion as well. We have documented large parcels of land in remote areas to support their sale to overseas clients, we even shot a winery in Colorado for sale in an auction! Whether you need a photographic map on your website to show clients your new location or you need constantly updated aerial imagery for your construction project, vertical aerial photography is the perfect answer.
Using custom vertical aerial photography used to be expensive and time consuming. Not any more! While we do have access to high-resolution photography of the entire Wasatch front and St. George area that is about a year old, our specialty is current, high-resolution, low cost verticals of the property you need. We can shoot exactly what you need when you need it - like after the cement pour but before the walls start to go up on your construction project. Try to get that from Google Earth! We also offer the resolution you need, whether it's very high-resolution or even our lower resolution, which is still much sharper than other online solutions. Custom graphics like property lines, dates, road labels, shading, etc. are quick and easy. We've even made golf course maps with yardage markers!
Vertical aerial photography has many different uses and is much more current and detailed than anything you'll find online. Take your project to the next level by using custom vertical photography from Photographic Solutions, Inc.
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