Adrian K. O'Dell flies every ARO project
Adrian is the owner and principal pilot of ARO Aerial Inc. He has held his FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certificate since August 2019 and plans, flies and processes every project himself, so the person who scopes your job is the person on site.
He trained through the Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) and is now a USI Certified Instructor. For more than four years he has led the drone cohort at The PAST Foundation, a Columbus STEM nonprofit, teaching the rules and flight skills he uses on client work. He is an Infrared Training Center Level I sUAS Certified Thermographer, OSHA 10 Construction trained, and trained in RF awareness and tower inspection. He holds a BSBA in Finance and Management of Information Systems from Ashland University, where he competed as an All-American in track and field.
He works alongside licensed surveyors and engineers: their team sets control and seals the work, and ARO delivers the aerial data tied to it.
years of commercial drone operations
flights logged
hours of logged flight time
aerial photos captured
Central Ohio sites mapped
Flight totals from ARO's AirData flight log as of November 2026.
Equipment ARO owns and flies
Every aircraft and sensor below is owned by ARO and flown by Adrian. Mapping and LiDAR flights use RTK corrections for centimeter-level positioning, tied to the control your licensed surveyor sets.
LiDAR and mapping
- DJI Matrice 350 RTK with Zenmuse L2 LiDAR
- DJI Matrice 350 RTK with Zenmuse P1 full-frame mapping camera
- DJI Matrice 300 RTK with a second Zenmuse P1
- DJI Matrice 400 (carries the P1)
- DJI Matrice 4E and Mavic 3 Enterprise, both RTK
Thermal and multispectral
- DJI Mavic 3 Thermal, radiometric, RTK
- DJI Matrice 210 RTK with Zenmuse XT2 thermal
- DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral, RTK, for turf and vegetation health
- Thermal is flown from the air only
Video, photo and interiors
- DJI Inspire 2 with Zenmuse X7 cinema camera
- DJI Mavic 3 Cine and Mavic 4 Pro
- Nikon D850 for ground photo and video
- iGUIDE PLANIX R1 for measured interior tours
- Insta360 X4 for ground-level 360° walks
Ground and accuracy
- Emlid Reach RS2+ and RS3 GNSS receivers
- Ground targets and checkpoints
- Control and check shots set by your licensed surveyor
- Checkpoint report with mapping and LiDAR deliverables
Processing and delivery
- DJI Terra and PIX4Dmatic processing
- DroneDeploy and PIX4Dcloud hosted viewers
- Files for Civil 3D, ArcGIS, Revit and Procore
- Point clouds (LAS/LAZ), GeoTIFF, DWG, OBJ
