UAV Imaging serves Cold Lake and the surrounding Lakeland region with an industrial drone-services menu built for the area's in-situ oilsands and SAGD operations, gathering-system infrastructure, and the mixed grain and cattle country around Bonnyville. Crews stage from the region for multi-day facility and pipeline deployments and quote travel up front. Cold Lake sits under the restricted airspace of 4 Wing Cold Lake, so every flight in that area is planned around NAV CANADA and military airspace coordination as part of pre-flight.
Services available in Cold Lake
- Drone inspection services — SAGD and heavy-oil facility structures, tanks, treaters, flare and vent stacks, gathering-line crossings
- Aerial methane survey — well pads and gathering systems screened with the Pergam Falcon TDLAS sensor on the Matrice 300 RTK
- Drone mapping & pit plans — facility site plans, lease as-built, borrow-pit volumes
- Drone stockpile measurement — aggregate, sand and salt pile volume reports
- Confined-space tank inspection — Flyability Elios 2 collision-tolerant drone for internal tank and vessel inspection without entry
- Multispectral crop scouting — NDVI mapping for grain and forage operations across the Lakeland
Industries served around Cold Lake
- In-situ oilsands and SAGD — facility, tank and structural inspection, aerial methane screening
- Midstream and gathering — pipeline crossing and right-of-way patrol, gathering-system leak survey
- Utilities and transmission — power line and substation inspection serving the facilities
- Aggregate — borrow-pit and stockpile volume along the Highway 28 corridor
- Grain, forage and cattle agriculture — multispectral scouting and mapping support
Service area
UAV Imaging works Cold Lake plus Grand Centre, Bonnyville, Ardmore, Glendon, Elizabeth Metis Settlement, Le Goff and the surrounding Municipal District of Bonnyville. Larger facility and pipeline scopes stage out of Cold Lake and Bonnyville hotels on multi-day deployments.
Why hire a drone operator who knows the region
The Cold Lake region pairs dense in-situ oilsands infrastructure with active agriculture, and the facility work carries contractor-compliance and safety expectations a general aerial-photo operator is not set up for. UAV Imaging arrives with the certifications, the site-safety registrations and the payloads — Matrice 300 RTK, H20T thermal, Pergam Falcon methane, Elios 2 confined-space — that match the work Lakeland operators actually buy, and it plans every flight around the 4 Wing Cold Lake restricted airspace.
Compliance and credentials
- Transport Canada Advanced RPAS certified pilots on every flight
- $5M aviation liability insurance (above the 2026 $2M minimum)
- ISN, ComplyWorks, Avetta registered
- Site-Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) on higher-risk operations
- 2026 Remote ID compliant fleet