Feedlot Thermal Cattle Stocktake

• greymanadmin
• 23/09/2026

Audit-grade thermal cattle stocktake

Count every head.
Without moving one.

We fly your feedlot overnight by thermal drone, count every animal by heat signature with AI, and reconcile the result to your register — a defensible headcount to Big-4 audit standard. No mustering, no crew in the pens, no guessing.

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Live AI thermal count — 269 head counted in this capture, 26 shadows excluded. (Client anonymised.)

Every penimaged & counted, one clear frame each

1 nightautonomous overnight capture window

24 hrsgeotagged register delivered

Big 4audit-standard outputs

What it is

A counted number — not an estimate

Cattle hold heat, so at night every animal lights up against the cool ground. We fly an autonomous thermal drone over your feedlot while stock are settled, capturing one clear frame of every pen. Our AI counting pipeline then works pen by pen: it boxes each animal, separates animals that share a frame, and identifies and excludes warm shadows and ground artefacts — so nothing is missed and nothing is counted twice. The result traces back to a specific, located, time-stamped image: the kind of evidence your auditor, financier and insurer will accept.

The process

From flight plan to audited headcount

1

Map & reconcile

We map the feedlot to survey grade and reconcile every pen to your register — one waypoint per pen, agreed in writing.

2

Plan the route

An autonomous, RTK-positioned flight path over every pen — one clear thermal frame each, in sequence.

3

Fly overnight

The drone flies the count while cattle are settled — every animal reads by heat signature, no crew in the feedlot.

4

Count & report

AI counts each pen, shadows excluded; a geotagged register reconciled to your book figure within 24 hours.

Planned capture waypoints over a feedlot, flown autonomously in sequence. (Location anonymised.)

Coverage you can prove

One waypoint. One pen. Every time.

Before we fly, we build a capture mission with a waypoint over every pen — sequenced and reconciled to your register. The aircraft flies the route autonomously, stops at each pen and captures one clear thermal frame. Then we cross-check the imagery against your pen list. Every pen is accounted for — or we re-fly it. That is the difference between an estimate and an audit-grade count: coverage you can prove, pen by pen.

What you receive

Deliverables built for audit

• Planned Waypoint Register + flight-path map — every pen sequenced, with waypoint, lat/long and planned altitude.
• A clear, geotagged thermal image of every pen — decimal-degree GPS in the metadata, each frame named to its Pen ID.
• Per-pen count table + visual count map — counts overlaid on a survey-grade map of your feedlot.
• Capture Register within 24 hours — timestamp, photo ID and notes per pen, plus a non-conformance log.

Total data transparency

No black box. Every image we deliver is GPS-logged, so any number in the count traces back to a located, time-stamped frame — open any pen and see exactly where and when it was captured.

Latitude / LongitudeWGS84 decimal degrees, in every image

Height (AGL)above-ground altitude of capture

Waypoint & Pen IDevery frame tied to its pen

Timestampdate & time of capture

RTK-positionedsurvey-grade accuracy

Who we are

Greyman OPS

Commercial drone operations, supply and support — and specialists in thermal survey, mapping and biosecurity. We run every job under our own CASA certification, so clients need no accreditation of their own.

Commercial drone operations, supply & support

Managed drone operations under our own ReOC, plus DJI Enterprise sales and ongoing support — from a single count to a standing program.

Biosecurity & wildlife management

Thermal survey and aerial capability for pest and wildlife management, environmental monitoring and biosecurity across rural operations.

Why Greyman OPS

Own CASA ReOC 9077 — fly under our umbrella, no client cert needed

BVLOS approval in progress

A$20M Public Liability · A$2M Professional Indemnity

100% operational safety record since 2018

In-house thermal, mapping & AI counting

National coverage

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Tell us about your feedlot

Give us your pen count and rough timing and we'll scope a count for your feedlot. The more you tell us, the tighter the estimate.

Talk to us directly

Email — ops@greyman.com.au

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Thanks for stopping by at BeefEx, happy to scope a thermal count for your yards.

Greyman OPS · Audit-grade thermal cattle stocktakes
ops@greyman.com.au · · www.greyman.com.au/feedlots

CASA ReOC 9077
A$20M Public Liability · A$2M Professional Indemnity · 100% safety record since 2018

Count and imagery from a Greyman OPS thermal stocktake; client and location anonymised for confidentiality. The 269-head figure is the AI count for the capture shown, not a whole-of-site total. © 2026 Greyman OPS · Clearwater CFA Pty Ltd t/a Greyman OPS · ACN 619 194 964.