Show an area is clear, with the record to back it.
Declaring eradication takes more than a few clean surveys. It takes showing where you looked, when, with what, and in what conditions. ORCA flies repeat passes on the same lines and logs every cell, so the evidence builds as the work is done.
From what your team does today, to what the fleet does for it.
The work is capped by headcount
- Surveys are repeated by hand, often on different lines each time.
- Gaps in coverage are hard to see and harder to explain.
- Evidence is pieced together afterwards from field notes.
One operator, the whole fleet
- Every pass is flown the same way, to the agreed standard.
- Every cell has a record: when, what sensor, what conditions.
- Gaps are explained as they happen, not discovered later.
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.
Absence is about the gaps
A clean survey only counts where the ground was actually seen. The record shows exactly where that was.
Same lines, every pass
Passes flown on the same lines compare cell by cell, which is what a decision on absence needs.
Fewer chances to miss
A block flown in one session leaves animals less time to move between strips.
Answers your team can act on.
Not hours of footage. Each output goes straight into the systems you already use.
Who it’s for
- Eradication programme leads
- Technical advisory groups
- Biosecurity science teams
ORCA keeps the evidence. The decision on what counts as absence stays with your advisors.
Absence report
Per blockPasses, cells logged, detections and dismissed flags in one document.
Cell history
ArcGIS layerFor every cell: each time it was seen, by what, and in what conditions.
Gap register
Reasons loggedCells not seen, why, and the follow-up booked.
Flight record
ReplayableEvery pass, for audit and for your advisors.
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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.