Persistent Aerial Coverage. Difficult Terrain Welcome.
Define an area. The software handles the rest — planning coverage, managing drone rotation, and delivering survey-grade terrain data to your team continuously. One operator. No helicopter bills.
Autonomous Coverage, Not Remote Piloting
You draw a boundary on a map. loiter.ai computes optimal flight paths, dispatches drones, rotates fresh aircraft as batteries deplete, and stitches the data together — all from a single tablet interface. The operator makes decisions. The software handles everything else.
The output is a georeferenced DEM accurate enough for volumetric calculations, delivered fast enough to act on — after a flood event, before a construction decision, ahead of a site visit. Same platform, different sensors. The autonomy layer doesn't care whether it's carrying RGB, multispectral, or thermal.
Autonomy That Earns Trust
Every flight path is computed, deconflicted, and repeatable. RTK positioning keeps aircraft on station with centimeter-level accuracy. Automated return-to-launch triggers on battery thresholds, link loss, or geofence boundaries. Nothing improvised, nothing unpredictable.
We fly on ArduPilot with NDAA-compliant hardware, open protocols, and full mission logging. If you need to audit every second of a flight, you can.
Terrain That's Hard to Survey Any Other Way
River corridors. Flood plains. Pre-construction solar sites. Agricultural drainage basins. Ozark hills where canopy cover makes satellite imagery useless and manned aircraft can't fly low enough to see through the gaps.
We fly these areas repeatedly — building baselines, detecting change, calculating volumes. After a flood event, we can tell a landowner exactly how much material moved and where it went. That's a number with a dollar sign next to it: an insurance claim, an earthwork bid, a drainage design that works the first time.
River corridors, solar sites, construction grading, levee inspection — every one of these is the same problem. Persistent coverage of difficult terrain is what we build.
The Same Capability That Maps a Flood Plain Maps Anything.
Swap the sensor. Change the mission file. The platform doesn't care whether it's building a terrain model for a civil engineer or maintaining eyes on a search area for a wildfire crew. One operator, one tablet, continuous coverage, no infrastructure required.
If that sounds useful for your problem, it probably is.