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BottomBee Farms is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that makes plain, decision-grade reports on land and water. We work for developers, site teams, farmers, growers, landowners, lenders, consultants, and the agencies that serve them, with clients across the United States, Canada, and Europe. We find what is there and what changed, and we hand it to you in a form you can act on without a specialist to translate it.
Why a geospatial company grew out of an oyster farm
About BottomBee Farms:
BottomBee Farms makes plain, dated satellite reports on land and water for the people who own it, build on it, farm it, and answer for it. We show you what is there and what changed, in a form you can act on or hand to a lender, a buyer, or a regulator. No site visit, no survey crew, and no specialist needed to read the result. We serve clients across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Why a geospatial company grew out of an oyster farm:
BottomBee Farms did not start as a software company. It started with a submerged-land lease near St. Augustine, Florida (Ostra Farms), and a practical problem: understanding a coastal site, its depth, its water, and what was on the bottom, without paying for a full boat survey every time a question came up. The tools we built to answer that proved useful far beyond a single oyster lease. The same analysis that maps a shellfish site maps a row-crop field, a construction parcel, a timber tract, or a stretch of coast before and after a storm.
Who does the work:
Every report is prepared by Brandon Bottomley, the owner and analyst at BottomBee Farms. BottomBee Farms is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Brandon holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Florida and a master's degree in the same field from Florida State University, with extensive work in Geographic Information Systems. When a site needs finer detail than satellite can resolve, we pair this analysis with an on-site drone survey flown by licensed remote pilots from our partner network. We can pair this satellite work with an on-site drone survey when finer detail is needed. You are not handing your site to an anonymous service. You are working directly with the person who runs the analysis and signs off on the result.
How the work is done, and why it holds up:
Every measurement comes from calibrated, government-issued satellite imagery processed through a documented processing pipeline using established, published remote-sensing methods.
Each report lists its data sources, the dates on which the imagery was captured, and the steps used to produce each layer. That matters for one practical reason: the findings do not rest on opinion. Another qualified analyst, given the same imagery and the steps we describe, would arrive at the same numbers. That is what makes a BottomBee report useful in a permit file, a loan package, or a dispute.
What these reports are, and what they are not:
A BottomBee report is a monitoring and reconnaissance product. It is built to show you, across a whole site and over time, what is changing, where, and how much area is involved, so you can make a decision, focus a site visit, or keep a dated record of conditions. It is not a land survey, and we are not licensed land surveyors or professional engineers. Satellite analysis reads the surface of a site from above. It does not set property corners, certify boundaries, or produce stamped elevations or volumes. Where a measurement requires a professional seal, that step belongs to a licensed surveyor or engineer, and our analysis serves as the screening layer that tells them exactly where to look. Think of it the way you would think of an excellent aerial photo of a property before you walk it: it tells you where to concentrate your attention, and it does not replace setting foot on the ground.
Please send us the coordinates or boundary of your site and the dates you're interested in, and we will let you know which report applies and what it costs. info@bottombeefarms.com
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