Rogue Reconnaissance
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Flying since 2016

Aerial remote sensing and geospatial services.

Drone LiDAR, multispectral, and thermal infrared for foresters, fire agencies, watershed councils, engineers, and landowners. Based in southern Oregon, on the road wherever the job is.

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The mission

In the right hands before it's needed.

A city forester, an incident commander, an engineer, or a family with a farm gets what is actually there, measured, while the decision is still open. Every product ships with its accuracy, and with the classes that are weak named.

What we map

Infrared heat map over a lake and forest: heat perimeter, isolated heat points classed by temperature, and 50, 100, and 200 foot mopup buffers.

Wildland Fire

Night infrared on active incidents
Post harvest assessment map for the Oregon Department of Forestry: downed woody debris volume by decay class in one acre cells, with species of standing trees.

Forestry

Every tree, classed and counted
Orthomosaic of a creek corridor through Phoenix, Oregon, clipped to the project area.

Property

Terrain your design team can build on
Three dimensional view of a farm elevation model with fields, tree mounds, and the pond in relief.

Farm Planning

A shared map the whole crew can work from

What the numbers say

36
Night infrared shifts in one season
The 2026 fire season, six incidents from East Evans Creek to Fielder Mountain, counted from the delivered products
69
Incident days on wildland fires
Ten incidents with delivered products on file, 2023 to 2026, a floor: the 2019 to 2022 seasons are not on this disk
12,632
Crowns classified on one project
City of Eugene Oregon ash inventory, 390 acres of riparian canopy
5,519
Acres of drone LiDAR with an acreage on file
Ashland citywide 4,300, the BLM Ukiah mines 778, the Eugene corridors 390, the ODF post harvest unit 51

Where we have flown

Every dot is a job on this site

Western Oregon and the north coast of California, with a dot at each town we have flown from Lee Falls Road Logsden, Lincoln County Service, Fossil Complex Rowe Creek Brewer Eugene Tyee Ridge Complex East Evans Creek Salt Creek Grants Pass Applegate Valley Ashland, Talent, and Phoenix Brookings Scott River, California Ukiah, California
A fire sits at the centre of its mapped perimeter. Other dots mark the nearest town.
Southeast Alaska, with a dot at each town we have flown from Klawock
Southeast Alaska

  1. Lee Falls Road

  2. Logsden, Lincoln County

  3. Service, Fossil Complex

  4. Rowe Creek

  5. Brewer

    • Brewer, 2026 Night infrared for the Oregon Department of Forestry

  6. Eugene

  7. Tyee Ridge Complex

  8. East Evans Creek

  9. Salt Creek

  10. Rogue River and Grants Pass

  11. Applegate Valley

  12. Ashland, Talent, and Phoenix

  13. Brookings

  14. Scott River, California

  15. Ukiah, California

  16. Near Klawock, Southeast Alaska

    • A tidal cycle time lapse at two stream mouths, 2017 Three aircraft rotating over two days for a University of Alaska Anchorage anthropologist. The imagery is in the Traditional Tlingit Fishing Technologies exhibit at the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau.

Featured work

Four jobs from the field

Standing trees by species and downed logs by decay class drawn over the hillshade of a post harvest unit.

Forestry 2023

Downed woody debris, measured from the air

Oregon Department of Forestry

Every log on a post harvest unit delineated, measured, and classed by decay, with standing trees identified to species.

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Crown polygons and treetop points over a canopy height model and orthomosaic in Eugene.

Forestry 2025 to 2026

Finding every Oregon ash before the borer does

City of Eugene, Parks and Open Space

12,632 crowns classified across 390 acres of riparian canopy. 5,261 of them Oregon ash.

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Infrared map sheet for the Interstate 5 fire near Grants Pass, August 2026: heat perimeter and classified heat on a topographic base.

Wildland Fire 2019 to present

Night infrared on ODF incidents since 2019

Oregon Department of Forestry, State Aviation

Call When Needed UAS infrared resource on active incidents, with heat perimeter and hotspot products in the GISS's hands before the morning briefing.

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Canopy polygons along a reach of the Scott River colored by dominant species.

Forestry 2025

Riparian species and cold seeps on the Scott River

Cascade Stream Solutions, with a botanist leading field identification. We flew it as their subcontractor and reported to them.

Fourteen riparian species classified across 423 acres of river corridor, with thermal mapping that pointed to groundwater fed cold seeps.

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All the work

We fly the same aircraft over a fire at two in the morning and over a timber sale at noon. The standard doesn't change: a number you can defend, in the format you already use, before you need it.
Eli Polsky, founder and pilot, Rogue Reconnaissance

Who we work with

Agencies, cities, foresters, and landowners

  • 01 State and federal fire agencies
  • 02 Incident management teams
  • 03 Cities and counties
  • 04 Watershed councils and land trusts
  • 05 Forestry consultants and timber
  • 06 Architects, engineers and landowners
  • 07 Farms and ranches
  • 08 Prescribed fire and fuels contractors

Credentials

Founded on a fire line. Flown by insured pilots red carded for fire.

Agencies and clients we've worked with

  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • City of Eugene
  • City of Ashland
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • US Forest Service
  • Cascade Stream Solutions

What clients say

Rated Exceptional. ODF Aviation Unit contractor performance rating, Call When Needed UAS, 2019 to 2022.
Sarah Prout, State Aviation Coordinator, Oregon Department of Forestry, 2023
The pilots are self sufficient with a background in wildfire which helps them understand incident needs and the importance of accuracy when producing mapping products. Excellent safety record with no incidents or accidents to date.
Sarah Prout, State Aviation Coordinator, Oregon Department of Forestry, 2023
You and your crews have been a proven and valuable resource for us to meet our fire suppression goals since the 2019 fire season. They met or exceeded our expectations.
Lee Winslow, Medford Unit Forester and District Aviation Officer, Oregon Department of Forestry, Southwest Oregon District, 2023

Related

Hawaii jobs and the Collaborative

Hawaii

Hawaii Mapping

Our sister company in Hawaii. Hawaii projects run through it.

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Pilots and programs

UAS Wildland Fire Collaborative

The nonprofit we founded so any pilot on any fire can hand the incident the same packet in the same schema. State, contractor, and district pilots use it now. If you fly fire, join there.

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Let's talk about your next project.

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    The 2026 capability statement for procurement: credentials, aircraft, sensors, past performance, UEI and CAGE. PDF, 7 MB.

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Email info@roguerecon.net or call 808 298 6290.