Thermal Imaging

Here is how this works in practice. Our thermal imaging packages across Australia run FLIR Vue Pro R, FLIR Boson 640, DJI Zenmuse XT2 and H20T (mounted on DJI Matrice 350 RTK), Workswell WIRIS Enterprise, and ground-based FLIR T1010 and T865 high-resolution radiometric cameras.

Here is the short of it. Standard applications have nocturnal wildlife filming in Kakadu (UNESCO 1981), Daintree (oldest tropical rainforest at 180 million years), and Tasmanian Wilderness (UNESCO 1982. Tasmanian devil and quoll). Bushfire and post-fire ecological mapping across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Industrial inspection of mining infrastructure (Pilbara, Karratha, Olympic Dam). Solar farm and wind farm survey across NSW, Victoria, and SA. And feature/documentary creative applications where thermal overlay is used for atmospheric storytelling. Operators are CASA RPA-certified with thermal-payload endorsements. All flights are set up with Airservices Australia for controlled airspace.

Here is the breakdown. Australia's thermal imaging ecosystem is shaped by the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires (catastrophic events that drove huge investment in thermal mapping and post-fire ecological survey), the mining industry's heavy thermal-survey needs in the Pilbara and Galilee Basin, and the wildlife filming custom (David Attenborough's BBC, ABC) that uses thermal for nocturnal wildlife.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We file Parks Australia, NPWS NSW, Parks and Wildlife Tasmania, and DBCA WA permits for any national-park thermal shoot, Aboriginal Land Council consultation for sacred-site work (non-negotiable at Uluru-Kata Tjuta UNESCO 1987 and Kakadu UNESCO 1981), CASA RPA permits and CASR Part 101 compliance for drone-mounted thermal, and Producer Offset 30% forms through Screen Australia for documentary deliverables.