Ground sensors tell you
what’s happening. We show
you what’s coming.
Weather stations, soil probes, and canopy sensors read a vineyard block by block — rainfall, wind, pressure, plant stress. None of them can see the ridge above the block, or the fuel load in the ravine behind it. The Divine Fire Foundation closes that gap with WingtraOne fixed-wing aerial mapping: centimeter-accurate terrain, vegetation, and fire-fuel data flown over the ground your sensors can’t reach — in service of fire safety and forestry stewardship across the valley.
The Convergence, and the Gap in the Middle
Precision viticulture and wildfire risk are usually treated as separate disciplines. They’re reading the same land — they just need to be flown, mapped, and layered together.
In-Vineyard Sensor Networks
- Weather stations — rainfall, wind, air pressure
- Soil moisture and temperature probes
- Canopy and plant-stress readings
- Point-in-time, block-by-block data
WingtraOne Drone Mapping
- Multispectral / NDVI vegetation imaging
- LiDAR terrain and fuel-load scanning
- Centimeter-accurate photogrammetry
- Whole-property, contour-level data
Built for Two Different Landowners, One Same Question
Same aircraft, same data pipeline, two very different deliverables — depending on whether you’re protecting fruit value or protecting acreage.
Wildfire & Smoke Taint Predictive Dashboards
For vineyards and wine estates, the risk isn’t just flame reaching the vines — it’s smoke exposure changing the chemistry of fruit that’s still weeks from harvest. We fly multispectral and terrain data over the property and the terrain around it, then layer it against your existing sensor feeds to build a dashboard that flags which blocks and which surrounding slopes carry the highest wildfire susceptibility going into fire season.
Fire Mitigation Mapping for Large Properties
For wineries, event venues, guest ranches, and lodges sitting on acreage they haven’t fully walked, the questions are different: where are the ravines that would slow a fire crew down? Which slopes are heavily wooded and overdue for thinning? What does the terrain around the property boundary look like to someone trying to defend it? We fly the full parcel and hand back a terrain and fuel map built specifically to answer those questions — the kind of documentation that supports a defensible-space plan, a logging decision, and a conversation with an insurer.
What a WingtraOne Mission Actually Captures
Both services are flown on the same fixed-wing VTOL platform — it launches vertically like a multirotor, then flies fixed-wing routes for the coverage and endurance neither a handheld sensor nor a quadcopter can match.
LiDAR Terrain Scanning
Sees through canopy to bare-earth elevation — the ravines, drainages, and slope breaks that satellite imagery and ground walks miss.
Multispectral / NDVI Imaging
Reads plant health and moisture stress across canopy and wildland vegetation alike, ahead of visible symptoms.
Centimeter-Accurate Photogrammetry
Survey-grade imagery stitched into orthomosaics — accurate enough to measure a fuel break or a fence line.
Whole-Parcel Coverage
Fixed-wing endurance covers large acreage in a single mission — the ridge above the vines, not just the vines themselves.
Drone Workflow Training in High to Extreme Fire Risk
The clearest lessons about flying near fire don’t come from a classroom in the off-season — they come from flying during the weeks when risk is highest. During high to extreme fire risk periods, we also run hands-on training in drone-based fire intelligence: how different platforms and sensor packages perform under smoke and heat, how to plan a mission around shifting wind and restricted airspace, and how the resulting data feeds straight into mitigation decisions on the ground.
Platform Comparison
Fixed-wing VTOL versus multirotor — when the coverage and endurance of a WingtraOne is the right call, and when a smaller quadcopter is the better tool.
Sensor Packages
Working hands-on with LiDAR, multispectral/NDVI, and standard photogrammetry payloads, and learning which question each one actually answers.
Fire-Season Flight Conditions
Planning and flying missions around smoke, heat, wind shifts, and airspace restrictions that don’t show up in fair-weather flight training.
Flight-to-Decision Workflow
Following a mission all the way from flight plan to finished fuel-load map, and seeing exactly how that map informs a real mitigation decision.
What You Do With the Map Afterward
A flight isn’t the deliverable — the decisions it supports are. Here’s where landowners typically take the data next.
Document What You Own
A newly purchased parcel or an estate expansion is easier to plan — and easier to represent accurately to a buyer or lender — when its terrain, timber, and vineyard-suitable acreage are actually mapped, not estimated.
Show the Mitigation Work
Defensible-space clearing, thinning, and access-road maintenance are easier to plan, prioritize, and prove after the fact when you’re working from an actual fuel-load map instead of a walk-through.
Bring Data to the Conversation
Underwriters increasingly ask about defensible space and wildfire exposure. A documented mitigation plan — grounded in a real terrain and fuel survey — gives you something concrete to bring to that conversation.
This Started as Mitigation Work on Love & Luck Ranch
The Divine Fire Foundation grew out of fire mitigation the ranch was already doing on its own acreage — and on the BLM land around it. The dashboards and mapping are the next step of that same work, not a separate idea.