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LANDS & RESOURCES
Documenting change on territory, supporting referral responses, and building a record that holds up when it needs to.
Partnership First, EQUIPMENT SECOND
A drone program is a long relationship, not a transaction. Most of the value shows up in year two and year three. Once your pilots are certified, the workflow is routine, and the data record has enough history to show change over time.
That shapes how we work. We ask about you, your territory, your needs, and together we find the custom solutions to help your specific situation, before we talk about aircraft. We build the program around the people who will actually be flying it. And we plan for what happens after the first season, because a program that stops when the first grant runs out was never really a program.
- We work with the community, not around it.
- We design for the people who will operate the program, not just the people who approve it.
- We plan past year one, including recurrency, repairs, and adding pilots.
- We are reachable after the sale, from Canada
FROM OUR TRAINING VISIT WITH SIX NATIONS
TRAINING IN COMMUNITY WITH Six Nations.
Our training specialist and the team on what a week of hands-on certification training actually involves, what pilots practiced, and what people were flying by the end of it.
FROM FIRST CONVERSATION TO FIRST Flight
Every program starts with a conversation about the land, the questions your Nation needs answered, and who in the community will be flying.
START WITH YOUR PRIORITIES
Referrals and development on territory, water and habitat, cultural sites, infrastructure, emergency response. We build from what matters to your community.
PROGRAM DESIGN
Aircraft, sensors, and software matched to the work. Who gets trained, what certification they need, and what the program costs to run past year one.
PROCUREMENT SUPPORT
Scoping and quoting documentation your team can take to council or attach to a funding application.
TRAINING AND SUPPORT
Training delivered in community where possible, a certification pathway for your pilots, and a Canadian support team after the program is running.
CANADA’S DRONE SPECIALISTS.
NOT JUST Resellers.
Most communities do not need someone to sell them a drone. They need the part that comes before and after training, certification, workflow, data handling, and someone to call when it matters.
- Program design built around the questions your Nation is trying to answer.
- Training delivered in community, with certification support for your pilots.
- Data workflows designed so the data stays under community control.
- Procurement documentation suitable for funding applications and council approval.
- Canadian support team, reachable after the sale.
BUILT FOR THE TEAMS DOING THE WORK ON THE
Ground
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GUARDIANS PROGRAMS
Covering ground with fewer crew days. Monitoring water, habitat, access, and activity on the land.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Standing up a service capability that generates revenue and employs community members.
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EMERGENCY & PUBLIC WORKS
Wildfire, flood, and infrastructure response. Situational awareness early, documentation afterward.
CAPACITY THAT STAYS IN THE Community
A drone program is not a one-time purchase. Built properly, it leaves the community with trained people, a repeatable workflow, and a data record the Nation owns outright.
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Trained people, not rented crews.
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Community members certified to fly, with a pathway to keep those certifications current.
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Data under community control. Collected by your team, stored where your Nation decides, shared only when your Nation chooses.
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A record that builds over time. Repeat flights over the same ground become a documented history of change on territory.
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Work that can generate revenue.
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Communities with trained pilots and equipment can take on work for neighboring organizations and industry.
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LAND & WATER MONITORING
Habitat, shoreline, water crossings, and seasonal change, documented consistently over time.
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DEVELOPMENT & REFERRAL RESPONSE
Independent documentation of activity on territory, on your timeline rather than someone else’s.
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INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY ASSETS
Roads, housing, water systems, and community buildings, inspected without scaffolding or road closures.
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: DRONE PROGRAM PACKAGES
Six packages built around real community priorities — stewardship, protection, remote logistics, and NDAA compliance — not a straight cost ladder
LAND & BOUNDARY MAPPING
Communities beginning a drone program — boundary mapping, land surveys, and building local flying capacity.
- DJI Matrice 4E — rugged, all-weather mapping drone
- DJI Terra — orthomosaic & 3D terrain mapping with training
- Transport Canada RPAS pilot certification
- Hands-on flight training & data processing
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Land guardians monitoring forest health, water sources, and wildlife populations across the territory.
- DJI Matrice 4T —Multispectral sensor — vegetation health & water quality monitoring
- Thermal payload — wildlife tracking (e.g. caribou), low-visibility search
- Transport Canada RPAS pilot certification
- Hands-on flight training & data processing
- Into to Thermal course
Flagship
PRECISION LAND & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Seasoned drone programs and GIS teams needing survey-grade topographic and forestry data across large territories.
- DJI Matrice 400 + Zenmuse L3 — canopy-penetrating LiDAR, no ground access needed
- GeoCue LP360 + AI Forestry — tree/terrain classification
- Emlid RS4 base/rover — GNSS positioning kit
- Intro to LiDAR course
DOCK / AUTONOMOUS
AUTONOMOUS SITE SURVEILLANCE
Continuous protection of sacred and culturally significant sites from unauthorized access — day or night, without a pilot on site.
- DJI Dock 3 or 4 — automated launch for continuous site surveillance
- DJI Mavic 3T Thermal + visual camera — low-light detection of unauthorized entry
- DJI FlightHub 2 — real-time alerts & live feed
- DJI O4 Ground Station — remote-site connectivity
HEAVY-LIFT CARGO
LOGISTICS & DELIVERY
Delivering medical supplies, tools, and essential goods to roadless or seasonally-isolated communities.
- DJI FlyCart 100 — up to 100 kg payload, long-range cargo delivery
- DJI DeliveryHub (Hubflight) Enterprise App — mission planning & tracking
- Rigging Kit — cargo attachment hardware
- Candrone Field Onboarding
NON-DJI
NDAA-COMPLIANT MAPPING
For communities or partner agencies where funding conditions or data-sovereignty concerns call for non-DJI hardware.
- ACSL SOTEN — compact thermal mapping, 4.4 lb, Japan-made airframe (for just thermal)
- Freefly Astro Max + GeoCue TrueView — modular LiDAR platform, 3 kg NDAA/Blue payload capacity
- LR1 + Thermal Upgrade — swappable thermal payload on the same Astro Max airframe
- American Security Drone Act of 2023 / EO 13981 compliant, DIU Blue-approved hardware
FEATURED APPLICATION
EYES ON THE FIRE BEFORE THE Crews Arrive
When a fire starts near the community, the first question is where it is and where it is going. A thermal-equipped drone flown by a trained community pilot answers that in minutes, without waiting on an aircraft from elsewhere.
The same capability supports flood monitoring, search coordination, and documentation after the event.
TRAINING THAT CERTIFIES YOUR People
Equipment without trained pilots becomes equipment in a closet. Candrone delivers practical and on-going training through Candrone Academy and in person, with a pathway to Transport Canada certification for community pilots.
Where travel allows, training happens in community so more people can take part, and the session reflects the terrain your team actually works in.
- In-community delivery where possible
- Certification pathway for community pilots
- Ongoing refresher and recurrency support
- Built around the work your team is doing
OUR COMMITMENTS
HOW WE HANDLE YOUR COMMUNITY’S Information
These apply whether or not you ever become a customer.
Your data is yours:
We do not hold, host, or access data your team collects unless you ask us to.
Nothing published without permission:
No name, territory, photo, or story appears in our materials without written consent, and consent can be withdrawn.
You approve how you are represented:
If your community appears in our content, you see it and approve it before it goes anywhere.
We do not speak for you:
Any story here is on this page because the community asked for it to be.
VERTICAL EXPERT
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: DRONE PROGRAM PACKAGES, don't go anywhere
Michelle works directly with Indigenous governments, communities, and Indigenous-owned businesses across Canada. She will walk through what a program looks like for your community, what it costs to run, and what it takes to keep it going.
Your Nation does. The aircraft, the flights, and the data belong to the community. We can advise on storage and workflow, but we do not hold, host, or access your data unless you ask us to.
For many forestry inventory, mapping, and monitoring workflows, yes. We assess your required coverage, accuracy, terrain, and deliverables before recommending a replacement program.
Certification requirements depend on the aircraft, operation, and airspace. Candrone Academy provides Transport Canada Basic and Advanced RPAS training and helps teams understand their operational requirements.
Outputs can be configured for ArcGIS, QGIS, LiDAR360, forestry cruise software, and other GIS platforms using common formats such as LAS, LAZ, DTM, DSM, and orthomosaics.
Most clients are flying within two to three weeks of order, depending on equipment availability, configuration, training, and certification requirements.
Rental and demonstration options may be available depending on the required platform and project. Contact our team with your timeline and use case.
We recommend rugged systems suited to Canadian field conditions, including remote sites and cold-weather operations, while accounting for manufacturer operating limits and battery performance.
Drone programs provide current, high-resolution, application-specific data on demand. ROI depends on area, flight frequency, data requirements, and the cost of delays or lower-resolution alternatives.
READY TO BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY’S Drone Program?
Tell us what you are trying to monitor, document, or protect. We will walk through what a program would look like, what it takes to run, and what it would cost before you commit to anything.
