About Aetheris
Course intelligence for golf. Measured, not guessed.
We fly golf courses and turn one survey into the data a course runs on — sunlight, turf, water and terrain — for the superintendents, managers and head pros who make the calls.
I love golf. I love playing it, being around it, and spending time on golf courses. To me, golf courses are some of the most beautiful and carefully managed environments in the world.
I built Aetheris because I believe the people who care for these places deserve better information and better tools to do their jobs. The technology available today gives us the ability to see a golf course in ways we never could before—to understand its terrain, turf, irrigation, sunlight, infrastructure, and history in incredible detail.
Our goal is simple: give the people who care for golf courses the data, technology, and intelligence they need to keep them beautiful, healthy, and performing at their best.
Aetheris is about using technology to help the people who care about these places care for them better.
— Dylan Yarnall, Founder
Background
Before Aetheris, I spent my career in the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry and commercial construction — work where the data has to hold up when someone challenges it. That’s the standard every deliverable is held to: if it’s not measured, verified, and defensible, it doesn’t ship. I’m a lifetime resident of Southwest Missouri, hold FAA Part 107 certification, and fly a DJI Matrice 4T with Emlid RTK positioning, processing through Pix4D and our own golf analysis pipeline.
Survey, not satellite
Your course, measured on your timeline.
Satellite and fixed-wing imagery is captured on the provider’s schedule, not yours. By the time it reaches you, the course may have grown in, been renovated or lost a tree.
We survey your course when it matters — before a tree meeting, ahead of a renovation, each season if you want the trend — and deliver data you can measure from, not just look at.
Equipment
RTK-positioned hardware, software we built for golf.
- DJI Matrice 4TEnterprise sUAS — RGB cameras and a radiometric thermal camera (640×512) in a single payload.
- Emlid Reach RS2+ RTK baseRTK positioning so every map, green and measurement ties to real-world coordinates.
- Pix4D Mapper + CloudPhotogrammetric processing — the aerial map, surface model and 3D mesh everything else is built on.
- Cortex, Atlas + our golf pipelineOur own software: the shade and turf models, the greens book and tour builders, and the Cortex app your team uses every day.
Mission
Better decisions about the courses you manage.
We believe better decisions begin with better information.
- Mission
- Our mission is to give golf course management teams the data, technology, and intelligence they need to make better decisions about the properties they manage.
- Philosophy
- Our goal isn’t simply to collect more data. It’s to turn that data into intelligence that golf course teams can actually use.
- The Aetheris Promise
- We will be transparent about our technology, honest about what our data can tell you, and committed to continuously improving what we build.
- Vision
- Our vision is to create a complete digital intelligence layer for the modern golf course—where the physical property, its infrastructure, environmental conditions, historical data, management operations, and player experience are connected in one evolving system.
We don’t build technology and ask golf courses to adapt to it. We build technology around the way golf courses actually work.
Where we work
Based in Cassville, Missouri. Working with golf courses across the US.
We work with golf courses across the US from our base in Cassville, Missouri. The software and data work wherever your course is.