Of Infrared Expertise
Plus Alaska & Puerto Rico
Not Drones
For Facility Decision-Makers
Aerial infrared roof scanning is a non-destructive inspection method that uses aircraft-mounted thermal imaging to identify thermal anomalies associated with moisture trapped beneath commercial roof membranes. After sunset, wet and dry roof areas can release stored heat at different rates, creating thermal patterns that can be captured and mapped from the air.
AITscan uses this data to create roof-by-roof moisture maps for commercial facilities, campuses, school districts, and multi-building portfolios. These findings help maintenance and capital-planning teams focus follow-up verification, evaluate repair needs, and make more informed decisions about roof replacement and service life.
AITscan has decades of experience performing aircraft-based infrared roof moisture surveys for complex facilities and roof portfolios. The resulting thermal data and reporting can support maintenance planning, engineering review, capital budgeting, and warranty documentation.
Ground-based thermography and short-range platforms can be useful for localized roof inspections. For campuses, school districts, and multi-building portfolios, aircraft-based infrared roof surveys can provide efficient coverage across many roof areas within a coordinated thermal window.
AITscan uses aircraft-mounted infrared sensors selected for commercial roof moisture detection, with survey timing, acquisition altitude, and thermal conditions planned around the roof systems being evaluated. Collecting multiple roofs during the same flight also helps create a more consistent dataset across the portfolio.
This approach is especially useful for facility teams that need comparable roof moisture data across multiple buildings to support verification, repair planning, budgeting, and capital decisions. For projects requiring broader mapped thermal data, AITscan also provides aerial thermal mapping through Thermal MapIR.
Undetected roof moisture can become significantly more expensive once saturated insulation, decking, or surrounding roof components are affected. In some projects, delaying identification until visible failure occurs can increase repair or replacement costs by four to ten times compared with addressing a more limited problem earlier.
Aerial infrared roof scanning helps facility teams understand where suspected moisture is concentrated before making major repair or replacement decisions. For some portfolios, avoiding one unnecessary tear-off or extending the service life of a roof that does not require full replacement can offset a meaningful portion—or potentially all—of the survey cost.
