Legal & Forensic Photography

Aerial Services

What Our Clients Say

"SkySite is the best aerial photography company I have used in over 30 years of practice. Their work is ideal to help juries understand exactly what happened and where it happened. You can depend on SkySite for prompt service and outstanding photography. Their attention to detail is impressive."

Marvin Blount, Jr
The Blount Law Firm
Greenville, NC
"We won't try another case without aerials from SkySite. The images prove our cases very well."

Stephanie Autry
Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog, L.L.P.
Raleigh, NC
SkySite Aerial Photography: Inset zoom clearly shows the amount of detail present in the large photograph.

Aerial Photography can play a vital role in a successful legal case. Because we recognize that timing is critical when preparing evidence for a court case, these missions are our top priority.

We will deliver digital files of your images as well as enlargements to be used in focus groups, depositions, and in court. We mount the enlargements on gator board and add a dry-erase laminate so that you can draw and mark on the images as needed.

We also understand the requirement for confidentiality throughout all phases of a legal project. Your case will never be discussed with another client and your images will never be sold to any other person or company. To protect your images, all original photography is stored in at least two separate places.

Eminent Domain

Land condemnation is a legal process by which government or public utility takes or permanently damages private property for the purpose of public use. The condemnor decides the value of the property taken and pays “just compensation”. Unfortunately, land owners are often not justly compensated. SkySite’s aerial photographs help attorneys and juries assess more accurate values to a wide variety of properties. For example, a tract of land near a heavily developed retail corridor may possess value as a future commercial development. However, if vehicle access is taken away from the property, the land’s value diminishes significantly. This impacts the land owners, their families, and the local community.

Aerial photographs clarify the layout of the general area and the exact position and condition of the property in question.

SkySite Aerial Photography: Properties affected by road widening
Properties affected by road widening
SkySite Aerial Photography: Closer view shows access restricted
Closer view shows access restricted

Accident Reconstruction

SkySite can arrive over the scene as events unfold and provide a priceless photographic record for lawyers and engineers in accident reconstruction. Our prompt response greatly increases the value of the images for accident reconstruction and investigation. In the examples below, the attorneys used the high-resolution version of these aerial photos to see things inside the wreckage that they could never have otherwise seen.

SkySite Aerial Photography: Accident scene documentation
The resolution of the original photograph reveals a level of detail invaluable for accident investigators

Accident scene - click to see detailed view
SkySite Aerial Photography: Accident scene low view
The resolution of the original photograph provides a high level of detail

Accident scene - click to see larger view

SkySite Aerial Photography helps attorneys and accident reconstruction engineers with cases involving motor vehicle accidents, construction failures, workplace accidents, fires, explosions, and train accidents including derailments and collisions. In many situations, our aerial photos are the difference between winning and losing a case. The images often disprove testimony and shed light on critical details. Clients know they can count on SkySite to photograph these scenes correctly and quickly.

Contact us to discuss ways that we can help tell your story and win your case.

SkySite Aerial Photography: Accident scene high view
High
SkySite Aerial Photography: Accident scene medium view
Medium
SkySite Aerial Photography: Accident scene low view
Low
SkySite Aerial Photography: Same day service allows us to respond quickly
Same day service allows us to respond quickly
SkySite Aerial Photography: Scene of fire
Scene of fire

SkySite Aerial Photography can help you

  • Settle disputes
    • Identification of property lines
    • Land condemnation cases
  • Conduct investigations
    • Large fires and explosion scenes
    • Crime scenes
  • Support insurance claims
    • Hurricane damage assessment (before and after)
    • Construction scene accidents
  • Provide indisputable records
    • Roadway and interchange layout
    • Record of structure and surrounding areas

SkySite can provide custom images of any site in the country.  Please call 919.841.4916 or e-mail Info@SkySiteAerial.com for a custom quote.