Add repositories
Point Sightlock at drone folders, watched roots, project directories, or geometry sources.
How Sightlock works
Turn drone folders into a spatial inspection history.
Sightlock is a local-first desktop workstation for organisations with large drone video and photo archives. It indexes media, telemetry, thumbnails, dates, project extents, and geometry so the archive can be searched and opened from the map.
Build the spatial index
Parse media metadata, telemetry, thumbnails, dates, project extents, GPS points, and flight tracks.
Open media from the map
Click a project extent, flight path, media point, repository row, or visible map geometry.
Compare inspections
Use path similarity, project context, date, visible extent, and geometry to compare repeat flights.
Capture observations
Attach inspection notes and features to coordinates, media time, severity, and export fields.
Export evidence
Create screenshots, synced clips, CSV, KML, GPX, GeoJSON, and comparison-ready evidence.
Repository
Sightlock remembers the geometry without loading the whole archive.
The repository stores enough metadata and geometry to keep the map useful even when large videos are not hard-loaded. This is the core difference from a normal folder browser: users navigate by project, place, date, visible extent, flight path, and inspection geometry.
- Project cards and source folder paths.
- Generated thumbnails and media counts.
- Date ranges, GPS point counts, and track length.
- Loaded, indexed, missing, no-GPS, and failed-file state.
- Map preview that pans to the selected project or media extent.
Viewer
The map controls the media, and the media updates the map.
In Flight Viewer, the app keeps the drone video or photo connected to its GPS path. Users can scrub the video, see current position, review telemetry, switch dates/projects, capture a feature, or open the current item in Compare Studio.
- Video/photo plus map side by side.
- Library rail filtered by project, date, location, and visible extent.
- Telemetry, features, layers, weather, info, and jobs in utility panels.
- Feature capture from the map.
- Exportable coordinates and observation context.
Comparison
Historical inspection is geometry-first.
Compare Studio is designed around the question: what did this exact place look like on another date? The default pair is A/B, with C/D expansion planned for richer 2x2 review. Suggested pairs should be ranked by project, extent, path similarity, camera direction, date, and proximity rather than just filename or folder order.
What stays local
Drone videos and photos stay in the organisation's folders. Sightlock works as a desktop repository and inspection workstation, with account/licence checks separate from raw media storage.
What goes to the web account
The website manages trial state, licence key, active-machine allowance, machine bindings, subscription state, invoices through Stripe, and support enquiries.
What is exported
Reviewed evidence can leave Sightlock as screenshots, synced clips, feature tables, KML, GPX, GeoJSON, and GIS-ready outputs for project records and downstream systems.
Why it matters
Stop searching folders. Start from place.
A normal drone archive asks users to remember names, dates, and folder structures. Sightlock lets teams start from a river reach, coastline, road, bridge, stopbank, corridor, project extent, or visible map area, then open the relevant media directly.
Who it is for
Teams with too much drone media to manage manually.
Sightlock is built for drone survey teams, coastal and river engineers, stopbank reviewers, infrastructure inspectors, GIS teams, councils, consultants, and organisations that need repeatable inspection evidence from large video/photo repositories.
Try the workflow
Start with one project and one workstation.
Use the no-card trial to test real drone folders, validate the map-first workflow, and decide whether Sightlock fits your organisation's inspection process.