Aerial view of cliffs above a reservoir in Colorado's San Luis Valley
Aerial imaging · San Luis Valley, CO

The valley, from a better altitude.

Professional drone photography and video built for real estate across southern Colorado — with multispectral crop mapping coming for the valley's growers.

Real estate · stills, video & FPV tours Agriculture · multispectral mapping — new for 2027 FAA Part 107 certified · licensed & insured
What we do

Two kinds of sight,
one valley.

Valley Drone Solutions LLC puts a camera exactly where it tells the best story — high over a listing, low through a doorway, or scanning a field band by band. Real estate work is available now; multispectral agriculture services launch in 2027.

Real estate photography

Crisp aerial stills and cinematic video that frame the whole property — house, land, outbuildings, and the country around them.

  • High-resolution aerial stills
  • 4K listing & promo video
  • Lot, acreage & boundary context

FPV walkthroughs

Immersive fly-through tours that move like a buyer would — out the front door, around the barn, and up over the ridgeline in one unbroken shot.

  • One-take interior-to-exterior flights
  • Ultra-wide cinematic motion
  • Great for land, ranches & acreage
New · 2027

Agriculture mapping

Multispectral surveys for potato growers — stem counts and early PVY (Potato Virus Y) detection — turning each flight into actionable field data.

  • Potato stem & stand counts
  • PVY (Potato Virus Y) detection
  • NDVI & crop-health maps
Recent work

Shot over the
San Luis Valley.

A look at the cliffs, ranches, and farmland we fly. Swapping these out is easy — drop new files in the images folder and update one list in the code.

Showcase

A closer look,
frame by frame.

A rotating reel of recent flights over the valley. It pauses when you hover, and you can step through with the arrows, dots, or a swipe. Choose exactly which photos feature here by editing one short list in the code.

Aerial view of farmland, a county road, and mountains in the San Luis Valley
Real estate

Why drone photos help listings sell.

A ground-level photo shows a room. An aerial shows the whole opportunity — the lot, the land, the outbuildings, and how the property sits against the mountains, water, and roads around it. For the wide-open properties of the San Luis Valley, that context is often the thing that makes a buyer reach out.

Listings with aerial imagery simply stand out. They read as professional, they tell a fuller story, and they give serious buyers the spatial understanding they can't get from the curb.

  • Captures the full property — acreage, fence lines, barns, and access in a single frame.
  • Shows location & setting — proximity to mountains, water, and town that ground photos can't convey.
  • Helps listings get noticed — striking lead images draw more clicks and longer looks online.
  • Signals a premium listing — professional aerial work makes a property feel worth the trip.
Tractor planting a field in the San Luis Valley with mountains behind
Agriculture · new for 2027

What a multispectral camera sees that you can't.

A normal camera captures the same red, green, and blue light your eyes do. A multispectral camera adds bands beyond visible light — especially near-infrared. Healthy plants bounce back a lot of near-infrared; stressed, diseased, or struggling plants reflect noticeably less. That difference is the foundation of crop-health mapping.

Indexes like NDVI turn those readings into a clear map of where a field is thriving and where it isn't — often revealing trouble weeks before it's visible from the cab. For the valley's potato growers, that means seeing problems early enough to act on them.

  • Spot stress early — nutrient gaps, disease, and water issues surface before the eye can see them.
  • Stem & stand counts — measure emergence and plant population across a whole pivot, not just a sample.
  • Catch PVY sooner — multispectral scouting helps flag Potato Virus Y pressure for targeted follow-up.
  • Prescription maps — guide variable-rate fertilizer and spray so inputs go where they pay off.
  • Check irrigation uniformity — find dry corners and failing emitters across center-pivot circles.
Our equipment

The right aircraft
for the job.

Three purpose-built drones cover everything from quick listing photos to immersive tours to data-grade crop scans. Specs below are manufacturer figures for each camera.

DJI Mini 3 drone
Lightweight aerial · everyday listings

DJI Mini 3

Our go-to for fast, high-quality real estate stills and video. Under 249 g, it gets up quickly and shoots true vertical for web and social.

Sensor
1/1.3″ CMOS
Photo
up to 48 MP · JPEG / RAW (DNG)
Lens
24 mm equiv · f/1.7 · 82.1° FOV
ISO
100–3200
Video
4K up to 30 fps · 2.7K/FHD up to 60 fps · HDR
Gimbal
3-axis · True Vertical shooting
Flight time
up to 38 min
DJI Avata 2 FPV drone
FPV cinewhoop · immersive tours

DJI Avata 2

Our first-person-view aircraft for one-take fly-throughs — gliding out a doorway, around a barn, and up over the property in a single cinematic move.

Sensor
1/1.3″ CMOS · 12 MP
Lens
12 mm equiv · f/2.8 · 155° ultra-wide
Focus
0.6 m to ∞ (fixed)
ISO
100–25600
Video
4K up to 60 fps · 2.7K/1080p up to 120 fps slow-mo
Color
10-bit D-Log M
Stabilization
RockSteady 3.0+ · HorizonSteady
DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral drone
Multispectral mapping · agriculture (2027)

DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral

The data engine behind our ag work. It pairs a sharp RGB camera with four single-band multispectral cameras, capturing visible and invisible light in one pass to build crop-health and prescription maps.

RGB camera
20 MP · 4/3 CMOS
Multispectral
4 × 5 MP single-band cameras
Bands
Green 560 · Red 650 · Red Edge 730 · NIR 860 nm
Light sensor
Built-in sunlight sensor (accurate NDVI)
Positioning
RTK · centimeter-level, no ground points
Coverage
up to ~200 ha per flight
Flight time
up to 43 min

How we use it: fly a field once to capture RGB + multispectral data, then process it into NDVI and other vegetation-index maps. Those maps drive stem/stand counts, early disease scouting (including PVY), irrigation checks, and variable-rate prescription maps for fertilizer and spray.

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Tell us about the project.

Listing, land, or a field you want mapped in 2027 — send a few details and we'll get back to you with pricing and availability.

FAA Part 107 certified & fully insured · San Luis Valley, CO

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