Matt Nuernberg
Thermal Drone Surveys in Texas
July 09, 2025 by Matt Nuernberg
The use of drones is increasing rapidly in many industries, everything from roofing and infrastructure inspections, land surveying, spraying crops and search and rescue. Drones have been used in wildlife management for more than a decade. We started using drones to collect data for clients in 2016 and are still finding new uses for them to assist landowners in their management decision making. Texas Parks and Wildlife has recently begun accepting survey data of white-tailed deer collected from thermal drones for MLD compliance.
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What You Need To Know About Drones
April 20, 2020 by Matt Nuernberg
What You Need To Know About Drones
Over the past twenty years there have been huge advances in all forms of technology and it is no shock that major improvements have been made to nearly every type of hunting and fishing equipment. As a boy I remember walking behind my dad following a blood trail after dark with a Maglite the size of my forearm, and today I own several flashlights that take up less room than a candy bar with battery life and brightness that far exceed the trusty old 4-Cell D Maglites. As a young kid I often thought about how nice it would be to call a helicopter to look for a wounded deer instead of walking through a forest of prickly pear that I was not yet tall enough to see over. With the relatively recent availability, and affordability, of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) or drones, the idea of looking for animals from the air is suddenly a realistic option. With that being said, it is not legal for the average person to do so in Texas, but we’ll get into that shortly.
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