Cell tower & telecom inspection

Climb the tower from the ground — and keep your crew off it.

Plan each tower orbit, assign the sites to your pilots, track every site's step in the field and share the inspection files with the client. You choose the angles and shot list your contract requires.

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Production tower-inspection footage from a working drone operator.

Site planning

Plan the capture for each tower

Use site records and mission planning to organize the work. Apply your own carrier shot list and pilot checklist.

  • Site and mission records
  • Your carrier requirements
A drone at antenna height on a monopine cell tower: the panel antennas and radios among the artificial branches, mountains behind.

Capture record

Every shot tied to a site, a flight, an operator

Keep site and mission records with the inspection files you capture. Review available operator and location metadata against the requirements of your contract.

  • Tower site records
  • Mission and file links
The same monopine tower from higher up, with the antenna arrays, the shopping-center roofs around it and the streets beyond.

Every site, every step

One project for the whole batch of towers

Each tower is its own mission on the project in Office › Work › Field › DSP, with the step it's on. One is waiting to go to the controller, two are flown and waiting for their photos, and the client's delivery sits at the bottom.

  • One mission per tower, with its next step
  • Send the orbit to the controller or export the KMZ
  • Photos, flight log and GCP file uploaded per site
The demo project Cell tower inspections — batch 1: orbit and antenna-detail missions for towers WT-104, WT-117 and WT-122, two waiting for photos and one ready to send to the controller, with the client delivery below.

Assign it out

Each tower to a named pilot

Click Team on the project and pick a pilot for each mission, or draw a crew from your roster in Office › Work › Field › Crews. Each pilot sees their sites in Field › Missions › Assigned to me, on their phone.

  • A pilot picked for every mission
  • Crews drawn from your roster
  • The pilot's own list in the field
Field › Missions › Assigned to me on a phone: the pilot's assigned missions, each with its project, capture type, assignment date, flight zone, shot count and aircraft.

Fleet-scale operations

Every crew and what they're flying

Active crews show each job's people, their status and the missions in flight, the tower batch included. Wrap a crew when the work is done; everything stays on the project.

  • Crews by job, with status
  • Missions per crew
SkySuite active crews: each project's crew drawn from the company roster, with its status, the pilots flying and the missions assigned.

Stop climbing. Start scanning.

Free never runs out. No card required. Try Pro free for 14 days, or 30 days with a card. Plan your next tower batch today, or book a demo and we'll walk through it with your crew.

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