Open water, public shorelines
Cruise berths, fuel farms, and cargo yards sit in plain view of beaches, parks, and causeways. Repeat flights become a security, safety, and tenant-relations problem at once.
Drone incursion exposure
You can see the drones. You cannot stop them.
Federal law reserves drone mitigation to federal agencies and certified state and local officers. A port, utility, or launch provider may detect, record, and report. What that record shows, and who acts on it, decides whether incursions keep happening.
- 1Playalinda Beach lot, Jul 25, 2026. Launched from a public beach parking lot and came within 1.56 mi of Launch Complex 39B. Federal charges; guilty plea entered September 2026.
- 2Port Canaveral lot, Jan 2025. Three days of flights photographed Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Probation and deportation, Aug 2025.
What exposure looks like
The drone never crosses your fence. It launches from a parking lot.
Around Kennedy Space Center, every likely launch point is public land: a beach lot, a riverfront park, a boat ramp. Two recent cases started in parking lots. One came within a mile and a half of a launch pad.
Your site has the same pattern. An exposure analysis maps it from your own detection logs and public records:
- Where drones launch, and which public places sit within range
- Repeat flights, times, and paths that point to intent
- Which agency has authority to act at each location
The result is a sourced record your board, insurer, and counsel can use for budgets, coverage, and requests for protection.
Who this is for
Same law, different exposure.
Spread out and lightly staffed
Substations and treatment plants are easy to observe from a road shoulder. A detection log says a drone was there. It does not say why the same one keeps coming back.
High-value, high-visibility
Pads, payload processing, and test stands draw hobbyist flights, and can draw deliberate collection too. Telling the two apart takes a pattern, not a single sighting.
Pricing a risk with thin data
Underwriters asked to price drone exposure have little beyond incident reports. A mapped, sourced exposure record gives coverage terms and loss-control requirements a basis.
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Drone incursion exposure, in a few minutes.
What a private operator can and cannot do under federal law, why incursions persist, and how a pattern analysis changes the conversation with leadership, insurers, and law enforcement.
Why incursions keep happening
Three gaps no sensor closes.
Detect, but not defeat
Only federal agencies and certified police may take a drone down. A port or utility may only watch, so the value of detection depends on who receives it.
Launch from public ground
Beaches, parking lots, and causeways give a clear line of sight to sensitive assets, and most of that ground belongs to someone else.
No record of the pattern
Single incidents end in reports. Without a pattern, budget requests, insurance discussions, and airspace designation requests stall.
Alerts versus evidence
Detection tells you a drone was there. Analysis tells you what to do next.
Detection alone
- An alert, a report, maybe a charge weeks later
- No view of repeat behavior or timing
- Budget and insurance requests argued from anecdote
Detection plus analysis
- Launch points and approach corridors mapped
- Repeat flights and timing patterns identified
- A record that supports designation, prosecution, and insurance
The method
How the assessment works.
Map
Public launch points with line of sight to each asset.
Analyze
Your detection logs, reviewed for timing, routes, and repeat flights.
Clarify
Which agency holds authority at each point, and how to reach it.
Report
Findings and options, written for leadership and the board.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Exposure map
Launch points, approach corridors, and responding authority by zone.
Pattern analysis
Repeat behavior drawn from your own detection logs and incident reports.
Partner map
Which certified agency or federal partner responds, and what they need from you.
Board-ready findings
Sourced and graded for confidence, so they hold up with directors, insurers, and counsel.
What this work does not do. It does not sell, install, or recommend a specific product, and it never advises a private party to interfere with a drone. Every recommendation stays inside federal law.
Ways to engage
Scoped to the site and the decision.
Fixed fee
Airspace exposure assessment
One site or campus, mapped and assessed, with findings in writing.
Fixed fee or hourly
Incursion pattern analysis
Built on your detection logs, to show what is repeating and when.
Hourly
Testimony and briefings
For litigation, boards, insurers, and legislators.
Every engagement starts with a written scope and a fixed fee or rate before any work begins. Law enforcement agencies: see counter-drone readiness.
Request a written scope
What is flying over your site?
Describe the site, what you are seeing, and the decision ahead. The reply will include a few questions and a proposed scope.
Prefer direct contact? robert@rjgreenresearch.org or (321) 252-9283