A border inspection system comprising: a vehicle presence sensor (308, 106) configured to detect a presence of a vehicle at a border crossing station; an aerial drone platform (104a-d) comprising an aerial camera configured to fly and capture images of passengers in vehicles at the border crossing station and means adapted to fly the aerial camera included in the aerial drone platform (104a-d) to positions suitable for the aerial camera to capture the images of the passengers in the vehicle, such that while the aerial camera is capturing images of passengers included in the vehicle and the vehicle is moving, the aerial camera flies at a same velocity as the vehicle to maintain its position with respect to the vehicle; and a data processing apparatus including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium in data communication with the data processing apparatus and storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations, the operations comprising: a) receiving, from the vehicle presence sensor, data indicating presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, b) in response to receiving the data indicating the presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, determining a metric of current weather conditions for the border crossing station, c) comparing the metric of the current weather conditions with a weather condition threshold indicative of weather conditions that are favorable to fly the aerial camera to the vehicle to capture the images of the passengers for aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform, d) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions satisfies the weather condition threshold, triggering the aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform (104a-d), and e) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions does not satisfy the weather condition threshold, outputting an indication that capture of images of the passengers by the aerial camera of the aerial drone platform (104a-d) is not to occur. a vehicle presence sensor (308, 106) configured to detect a presence of a vehicle at a border crossing station; an aerial drone platform (104a-d) comprising an aerial camera configured to fly and capture images of passengers in vehicles at the border crossing station and means adapted to fly the aerial camera included in the aerial drone platform (104a-d) to positions suitable for the aerial camera to capture the images of the passengers in the vehicle, such that while the aerial camera is capturing images of passengers included in the vehicle and the vehicle is moving, the aerial camera flies at a same velocity as the vehicle to maintain its position with respect to the vehicle; and a data processing apparatus including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium in data communication with the data processing apparatus and storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations, the operations comprising: a) receiving, from the vehicle presence sensor, data indicating presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, b) in response to receiving the data indicating the presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, determining a metric of current weather conditions for the border crossing station, c) comparing the metric of the current weather conditions with a weather condition threshold indicative of weather conditions that are favorable to fly the aerial camera to the vehicle to capture the images of the passengers for aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform, d) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions satisfies the weather condition threshold, triggering the aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform (104a-d), and e) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions does not satisfy the weather condition threshold, outputting an indication that capture of images of the passengers by the aerial camera of the aerial drone platform (104a-d) is not to occur. a) receiving, from the vehicle presence sensor, data indicating presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, b) in response to receiving the data indicating the presence of the vehicle at the border crossing station, determining a metric of current weather conditions for the border crossing station, c) comparing the metric of the current weather conditions with a weather condition threshold indicative of weather conditions that are favorable to fly the aerial camera to the vehicle to capture the images of the passengers for aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform, d) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions satisfies the weather condition threshold, triggering the aerial inspection of the vehicle by the aerial drone platform (104a-d), and e) in response to determining that the metric of the current weather conditions does not satisfy the weather condition threshold, outputting an indication that capture of images of the passengers by the aerial camera of the aerial drone platform (104a-d) is not to occur.