Industries

The same sealed record serves three reviews that already depend on aerial pictures and currently have to trust an editable file header.

Commercial real estate

Marketing sets and construction progress photos are often the only visual record of a site between surveys. A seal keeps the position, altitude, and capture time with the set, so a later brochure cannot present an older frame as this month's progress or slide the parcel boundary by rewriting EXIF.

Sample seals: Hudson Yards deck progress and London Bridge station roof.

Industrial inspection

Bridge, dam, pipeline, and turbine inspections are only useful in sequence. The registry keeps each pass as its own sealed record, with the aircraft and sensor named, so a chronological file cannot be reordered by exporting the pictures into a new folder.

Sample seals include the Golden Gate tower faces, the Hoover Dam downstream face, and a rejected turbine pass that shows the spoof check failing closed.

Insurance and legal

Claims files need a picture that still says where the damage was and when the aircraft was there. The seal is the metadata digest a reviewer can recompute. It is evidence of what was registered, and it is not a substitute for the adjuster, the policy, or a court.

Sample seals: Civic Center hail roofs, still pending a second GNSS fix, and the Jackson Square flood line.