Watching the New Louisville VA Hospital Rise: Monthly Drone Mapping

Two years of monthly orthomosaic maps over the 40-acre Louisville VA Medical Center site, flown for Walsh Construction.

40 acres. 24 months. One measurable orthomosaic map at a time, from the summer of 2024 to today.

Since the summer of 2024, we have flown the new Louisville VA Medical Center site every month for Walsh Construction, turning each flight into a single measurable orthomosaic map of the entire 40-acre project. Stack those maps side by side and you can watch a hospital campus rise out of the dirt - foundations, steel, roofs, roads, and finally landscaping.

One flight, one map, the whole site

Each map below is stitched from hundreds of overlapping aerial photos captured in a single morning. The result is not just a pretty picture: superintendents measure distances on it, planners mark laydown areas and crane paths on it, and owners get a dated record of exactly where the project stood.

Drone orthomosaic map of the new Louisville VA Medical Center construction site in July 2026
Drone orthomosaic map of the new Louisville VA Medical Center construction site in June 2024
June 2024July 2026
Drag to compare: June 2024, structural steel and early sitework across the 40-acre campus; July 2026, finished roofs, roads and landscaping, two years after the first flight.

The months in between:

Why builders order maps monthly

  • A dated, zoomable record of the whole site for owners and project teams
  • Laydown, staging, and access planning on a current image instead of an old satellite view
  • Quick distance and area checks without sending anyone into an active work zone
  • Fewer misunderstandings: everyone marks up the same picture

We fly FAA Part 107 licensed and fully insured, and we deliver each map within days of the flight. Our mapping deliverables are visual planning and documentation tools, not boundary or legal land surveys, which must be prepared by a Kentucky licensed professional land surveyor.

Need monthly maps on your project?

I fly monthly and milestone progress for contractors, developers and owners across Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Send the site and the schedule and I will put together a plan and a quote.