About AirMac

Relentless attention to detail is present in every piece of our work at AirMac Aerial Imaging.

AirMac Aerial Imaging creates customized high-resolution airborne videos, still images and photogrammetry orthomosaic maps for clients in Real Estate Development and Sales, Construction, Road and City Planning, Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Communications, Insurance, Forensics, Oil and Gas, Power and Renewable Energy, Churches, Landowners, Plus Timeless Memories for Organizations, Families and Individuals. Usually, AirMac is commissioned to captured a particular and unique perspective - normally an aerial view saved in a high-resolution format - of something that is important to someone else. The possibilities are endless. One of our greatest privileges was to capture the construction progress (from groundbreaking to completion/opening) of the newest church in the Lake Texoma area (our home region) - Lake.Church, located on the Oklahoma side of Lake Texoma near the new Pointe Vista development. See our Portfolio for examples.
Our Aerial Team Jon McPherson, CFI
Jon is AMAI's primary pilot and mission PIC. Jon began his aerial imaging journey as a fixed wing aerial inspection pilot in the oil and gas industry and over the years, fell in love with the detail and endless options provided by sUAS aircraft (drones). Jon holds FAA Part 61 Commerical Pilot, Instrument, Certified Flight Instructor Airplane Licenses and an FAA Part 107 Commericial sUAS Pilot's License. Jon has logged 3,100+ hours of fixed wing pilot PIC time and hundreds of hours of sUAS pilot PIC time. Jon heads AirMac's photogrammetry/mapping and 2D/3D modeling team.
In addition to Jon, our Aerial Imaging pilot team includes:
Mike Booth
Mike is an expert real estate aerial imager and "the go-to" for that extremely-specialized category of AirMac mission. Mike has flown countless real estate missions with hundreds of his images utilized by top property marketers and real estate brokers & agents in AirMac's service region. If you've spent any time at all on Zillow looking at listings in the AirMac service region, chances are you've already seen Mike's amazing work.
Dan Watters
Dan is based in the northeastern portion of AirMac's service area. In addition to his other accomplishments as a sUASA pilot, Dan is also a first-responder pilot for search and rescue.
AirMac Aerial Imaging Equipment - Gear, Capabilities and Deliverables

Our Gear

uSAS - Multiple Aircraft Approach

AirMac's approach for aerial imaging systems is that no single drone is ideal for every situation. For this reason, we maintain and own multiple drones. Also, because drones run on batteries, multiple dones are required to record continous footage for extended periods, for example a construction site operation spanning several hours. Our company-owned uSAS aircraft are all enterprise class drones, each with its own unique set of assets. For those very rare instances that AMAI aircraft do not address, we partner with other operators. Some missions require multiple pilots and multiple aircraft. And... in some (less frequent) situations, a ground-based handheld SLR is required to fill-in unique spaces of a mission or client-request. For this, we utilize the Olympus OM-D Professional Series SLR platform. See to the right for additional details.

Ground-Based - Handheld

AirMac Aerial Imaging (AMAI) is focused on providing sky-based airborne video and still imaging. That said, we know that there are situations where the ideal shot - maybe a still shot to add the perfect final touch to a video sequence - must be gound-based. For this, AMAI owns and maintains multiple handheld SLRs with multiple lenses in the Olympus OM-D Professional Series all-weather platform. In addition to their still image capabilities, our OM-Ds are stereo-audio and 4K video capable.
AirMac Aerial Imaging Equipment - Gear, Capabilities and Deliverables

Our Capabilities

uSAS - Aerial Video

  • Up to 5.4k
  • Up to 70mm for multiple perspectives
  • Low light and night capable
  • 45+ minutes airborne time with 1 drone
  • Multiple hour airborne times with 2+ drones (requires multiple pilots)
  • 360 degree obstable avoidance
  • Vertical or horizontal orientation
  • H.264/H.265
  • 5.4K: 5472×3078 @ 24/25/30 fps
  • 4K:3840×2160@24/25/30/48/50/60/100*fps
  • FHD:1920×1080@24/25/30/48/50/60/100*/200*fps
  • 2.7K Vertical Shooting: 1512×2688@24/25/30/48/50/60fps
  • FHD Vertical Shooting: 1080×1920@24/25/30/48/50/60fps Note: This is an abbreviated list and applies only the AMAI owned drones. Other drones utilized from partner sources will have other capabilities

uSAS - Aeral Stills

  • Wide, Normal and Zoom Cameras
  • Single Shot: 12 MP, 20 MP and 48 MP
  • Burst Shooting: 12 MP, 3/5/7 frames; 48 MP, 3/5 frames
  • Automatic Exposure Bracketing (AEB): 12 MP, 3/5 frames; 48 MP, 3/5 frames at 0.7 EV step
  • Timed: 12 MP, 2/3/5/7/10/15/20/30/60 s; 48 MP, 5/7/10/15/20/30/60 s HyperLight): 20 MP
  • HDR Panorama[4]:
  • 180° (3×7): 8192×3500 (width×height)
  • Sphere (3×8+1): 8192×4096 (width×height)
  • Vertical (3×1): 3328×8000 (width×height)
  • Wide-angle (3×3): 8000×6144
  • JPEG or RAW Output
  • 2D and 3D Orthomosaic Images For more information about this category of our work, see All About Orthomosaics in our Services-Categories Area Note: This is an abbreviated list and applies only the AMAI owned drones. Other drones utilized from partner sources will have other capabilities

Ground-Based Still and Video

  • Sensor Resolution:
  • Actual: 22.9 MP
  • 17.4 x 13 mm (Four Thirds) BSI MOS
  • Image Stabilization: Sensor-Shift, 5-Axis
  • ISO Sensitivity Range
  • 200 to 25,600 in Manual, Auto Mode (Extended: 80 to 102,400)
  • Continuous Shooting: Up to 120 fps
  • Internal Recording Modes:
  • H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
  • 4096 x 2160 at 23.98/25/29.97/50/59.94 fps [202 Mb/s]
  • 3840 x 2160 at 23.98/25/29.97/50/59.94 fps [202 Mb/s]
  • JPEG or RAW Output
AirMac Aerial Imaging Equipment - Gear, Capabilities and Deliverables

Our Deliverables

Your Images and Videos - Digital Fulfillment Options

AirMac Aerial Imaging delivers our product in a host of formats and media storage devices. Most commonly, digital files are provided on USB readable devices which are compatible with both PC and MacOS platforms. Cloud storage and delivery is also an option, although less common due to the size of the files. All of the digital footage and stills captured for clients belongs to the client commissioning the session(s). Orthomosaic and Photogrammety Layers We produce Esri-compliant (ArcGIS) and Google Earth 3D compliant layers along with high-resolution and elevation-encoded outputs along with geotagging with Lat/Lon data as requested with Photogrammetry missions. For more information about AirMac's Orthomosaics, see our categorial services summary in our Services/Services-Categories-Orthomosaics area. Time/Date/Altitude Geotagging Files for Aerial Videos We capture time, date, altitude and lat/lon data in realtime with all aerial video we produce and can provide a separate file to clients which can be combined (and layered) with the video for documentation and/or forensics. This file can be viewed as a Closed Caption file on screen simultaneously with the video and toggled on and off as desired by the client.

Fully-Produced, Presentation-Ready Videos - YouTube, Vimeo and Social Media

AMAI can deliver our clients' digital outputs in a fully-produced, presentation-ready, format ready for posting to cloud-based media platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo and others, including high-def audio tracks. Typical fully-produced finalized deliverable format is MP4. AMAI utilizes editing platforms from Adobe, Sony and Apple.