The operator behind the data
Hover is a specialist operation, not a marketplace: the pilot who plans your capture is the one who flies it, processes it and stands behind the numbers.
Harry Billing — Owner & Chief Remote Pilot
Hover Aerial Imaging was founded in Brisbane in 2024 around a specific conviction: that infrastructure teams deserve capture data built to survey discipline, not content-grade drone photos with coordinates attached.
Harry holds the Chief Remote Pilot position under CASA ReOC #9398 and flies every engagement personally — one accountable operator from flight plan to validated deliverable.
ON STATION — BRISBANE RIVERThe paperwork your site team will ask for
Compliance documentation — insurances, SWMS, operating certificates — is supplied ahead of mobilisation as standard. Ask for the compliance pack with your quote.
The kit, honestly described
Capture runs on a DJI Matrice 4 Enterprise RTK platform working against a base station on known control, with ground control targets laid and independently measured for validation.
Photogrammetry is the deliberate choice behind that platform, not a limitation of it. Every model carries the asset's true surface — texture, colour, stains, coating condition — fused with survey-accurate geometry, so one capture doubles as both a measurement dataset and a visual inspection record. That combination is what makes a crack or a corroded weld findable in the data at all, not just a shape in space.
The accuracy is validated the same way a surveyor would validate it: independent ground control on every job, with the residuals reported, not asserted.
PLATFORM — M4E RTKBuilt around engineering teams
Deliverables are specified in your language — formats, accuracy class, control evidence — and scoped in writing before capture. Your engineers get data they can verify and sign off, in the software they already run. If a job is better served by a ground crew or a registered surveyor, we say so at quoting, not after mobilisation. The proof lives in the case studies.
Scope this for your site
Send the asset and the deliverable you need — a scoped method and quote comes back within one business day.
HARRY BILLING — CHIEF REMOTE PILOT
0411 445 458
[email protected]
CASA ReOC #9398 · $20M PUBLIC LIABILITY