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Alterra Drone Services

Construction Drone Services for Southern California

Inspections Real Estate Marketing Monitoring Aerial Photography & Videography

About

Alterra Drone Services is a Los Angeles-based drone operator providing construction progress documentation, aerial inspections, real estate photography, and edited site video. Founded by civil engineer Hugo Lezama, it supports active construction projects with organized aerial deliverables.

Alterra Drone Services provides commercial drone documentation for construction and development work in Southern California. Its services include recurring progress photo sets, aerial inspections of hard-to-reach building and site conditions, real estate photography, and edited flyover video. The company says its deliverables are labeled by date and location and supplied through shared project folders for reports, owner updates, and closeout records. Alterra was founded by Hugo Lezama, a civil engineer with heavy-civil and design-build project experience. The site identifies the business as Los Angeles-based, bilingual in English and Spanish, and certified for FAA Part 107 commercial operations, OSHA 10, and MSHA Part 46 work on active job sites.

Portfolio

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