Search the ground around a sighting before it spreads.
When a new pest is reported, the first days decide whether it can be eradicated. ORCA searches outward from the sighting with the whole fleet at once, sends likely matches to your officer, and records exactly what was searched.
From what your team does today, to what the fleet does for it.
The work is capped by headcount
- A handful of staff search on foot around the sighting.
- The radius is set by how many people are free, not by the biology.
- What was searched lives in notebooks and memory.
One operator, the whole fleet
- The whole radius is searched at once, nearest ground first.
- One officer runs the fleet and makes every call on a find.
- Every hectare searched is on the map, and every gap is explained.
Why this job needs more than one drone.
A fleet earns its place when there’s too much ground for the time available, when coverage can’t have a gap, or when people are the limit.
Days matter
A pest that sets seed or breeds before the search finishes changes the whole response. A fleet covers the radius inside the window.
Accounted for, not sampled
Delimiting needs to show where the pest is not. Sectors are assigned, flown and logged, so nothing is left to chance.
Experts on the calls
Your biosecurity staff spend their time judging finds and planning control, not walking transects.
Answers your team can act on.
Not hours of footage. Each output goes straight into the systems you already use.
Who it’s for
- Incident controllers
- Surveillance teams
- Regional council biosecurity officers
Flights over private land need the landowner’s consent. Consented and excluded areas sit on the map, and the fleet is designed never to cross a boundary you set.
Delimitation map
ArcGIS layerThe searched area by sector, with confirmed and dismissed finds.
Find records
Image + locationEach find with its image, coordinates, time, drone and who confirmed it.
Gap register
Reasons loggedEvery part not seen, why, and what is booked to close it.
Command log
ReplayableEvery instruction and decision, ready for the response debrief.
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See ORCA on work like yours.
Tell us about the ground you look after and where it’s hardest to cover. We’ll walk you through how a fleet would run it, and what a first trial could look like.