No published cell here — so the authorization is the answer.

Yes. Gainesville measures 27.3 NM from the DCA VOR/DME, inside the 30-mile Special Flight Rules Area, and it is core service area for us. SFRA operations run under FAA authorization with NOTAM discipline, which is part of every site's setup rather than an afterthought. We verify the specific parcel before we commit to a date.

It means the deciding fact here is different, not absent. No cell value was returned for this area, so there is no published automated ceiling for an approval to run against — altitude resolves through the FAA authorization path, with Part 107's 400-foot limit still applying. The map layer also never authorizes an operation on its own; it is informational. So we read your parcel, route the request the right way, and confirm current NOTAMs before we fly.

Whatever the authorization for your parcel supports, or Part 107's 400-foot limit, whichever is lower — and we pull the parcel at its centroid and its corners, because a property line can sit across two cells or across a boundary where the published data changes. We do not quote a town a single number, in Gainesville or anywhere else.

Inside the SFRA, no — the standing UAS security NOTAM limits operations to clear-weather daylight and bars night as defined in 14 CFR 1.1. For parcels verified outside the SFRA we schedule night capture; for Gainesville parcels we plan around twilight and dry-day windows, which still produce strong ΔT separation on a wet roof.

As a per-building record. A townhome cluster and its community buildings are surveyed in one aerial pass, and each roof is reported individually — dry or carrying moisture, and how the findings rank against the others. Boards use it to sequence the roof budget across phases instead of replacing everything at once, and no resident or volunteer ever needs to get on a roof.

Yes, and it is often the best time. A baseline captured at or near turnover becomes the reference the building's condition history gets measured against, and it separates construction-era issues from later wear. We are used to working around active sites and energized equipment, and we coordinate with your general contractor rather than around them.