AERIAL MAPPING · INSPECTION · REALITY CAPTURE
Higher Order of Perspective
Aerial mapping, structural and thermal inspection, and reality capture — delivering actionable intelligence through disciplined flight operations and engineering judgment.
Why Arclight
Why Arclight Skyworks
Arclight Skyworks was built on a simple conviction: that a deliverable should carry interpretation, not just imagery. An orthomosaic is a starting point. A thermal scan is evidence, not a conclusion. The work is in knowing the difference.
Engineering Judgment
Owned and operated by a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with thirty years in civil, mechanical, and ocean engineering.
Purpose-Built Fleet
Five aircraft across two mission profiles. Onboard thermal imaging and LiDAR obstacle sensing for close-in inspection around wires, conductors, and lattice steel.
Veteran-Owned
Twenty years of Navy service behind every deployment — Civil Engineer Corps, Deep Sea Diver. Briefed, planned, and executed to standard.
Capabilities
Services
Commercial, government, and residential clients across Northern Virginia and the surrounding region. Contact us for a quote.
Thermal Inspection
Radiometric thermal imaging detects temperature gradients invisible to the naked eye — moisture intrusion, delamination, failed cells, and thermal bridging.
Used on bridges, solar arrays, and data center envelopes to inspect critical infrastructure without scaffolding, lifts, or a shutdown window.
Structural & Visual Inspection
High-resolution, close-range imaging of structures that are difficult, costly, or dangerous to inspect any other way.
Obstacle sensing detects cable as fine as twelve millimetres in diameter at flight speed — purpose-built for the guy wires, power conductors, coaxial lines, fiber optic cables, and lattice steel that make tower and bridge environments unforgiving.
Orthomosaic Mapping
Georeferenced 2D orthomosaics, dense point clouds, digital surface models (DSM), and digital terrain models (DTM) for land development, construction, and site planning.
Processed through PIX4Dmatic and PIX4Dcloud. Documented ground control points and reported checkpoint residuals — a verifiable accuracy chain, not just imagery from above.
Construction Progress Documentation
Recurring capture on a fixed cadence, flown to the same flight plan every visit.
Comparable imagery month over month for owners, lenders, and project teams who need to see change rather than a snapshot.
Reality Capture & 3D Modeling
Photorealistic Gaussian Splatting reconstructions, 3D textured meshes, and CAD-ready optimised models from aerial and close-range capture.
Processed through PIX4Dcloud and refined in Blender and SolidWorks. Deliverables a client can navigate, share, and open in a CAD environment — not just a cloud link.
Selected Work
Deliverables
Actual output from actual projects.
Orthomosaic — parish grounds
1600 × 1000 ]
Georeferenced orthomosaic, parish property, Northern Virginia. Pre-commercial demonstration.
Gaussian splat — 3D reconstruction
1600 × 1000 ]
Photorealistic 3D Gaussian splat model, parish grounds. Client-navigable and shareable.
Thermal capture — anomaly callout
1600 × 1000 ]
Radiometric thermal with annotated temperature delta. Commercial inspection deliverable.
About
About Arclight Skyworks
Arclight Skyworks was built on a simple conviction: that a deliverable should carry interpretation, not just imagery.
Kenneth Wydajewski is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a twenty-year Navy veteran — Civil Engineer Corps, deep sea diver — with thirty years of practice across civil, mechanical, and ocean engineering. Arclight Skyworks applies that engineering judgment to aerial inspection and mapping for clients across Northern Virginia.
Silhouette — operator in the field with Matrice 4T · Golden hour · Northern Virginia
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Tell us what you need inspected, mapped, or documented. Most quotes return within one business day.