Springfield, Missouri

The Ozarks: cooperative lines through the hardwoods and cattle on the hills.

Springfield is the city of the Ozarks, ringed by electric cooperatives whose lines run through oak and hickory hills, by cattle farms on the uplands and by the spring fed rivers the region is known for. Corridor LiDAR, timber and farm planning are the flights that fit.

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The ground

Springfield and Greene County and Christian County

The city sits on the Springfield Plateau at the north edge of the Ozarks, with the James River and Wilson's Creek draining south toward Table Rock Lake and the White River. Around it the land is limestone hills in oak and hickory, with pasture cleared on the ridges and springs and caves underneath. Branson and the lakes lie to the south; the Mark Twain National Forest's blocks begin to the east and south.

Who buys mapping here

City of Springfield: Public Works, the Parks Board, City Utilities and its line corridors, the GIS group
Greene County and Christian County: Highway Departments, Emergency Management, Planning
The electric cooperatives of the Ozarks: Southwest Electric, White River Valley Electric, Ozark Electric, Webster Electric and their neighbours
The Missouri Department of Conservation's Southwest region and the Mark Twain National Forest's Ava and Cassville districts
The James River Basin Partnership and the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks
Missouri State University and its agricultural research campus; Drury and Evangel grounds
Cattle, poultry and hay operations across the plateau; the timber owners and sawmills of the hills
Branson, Nixa, Ozark, Republic and the growing towns of the two counties

Getting there

From Medford

Springfield is a flight to the regional airport or three hours south of Kansas City by road on the Missouri trip. The Ozark cooperatives can fill a week on their own.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

Missouri's statewide lidar covers the plateau and the hills, flown for terrain, and the sinkholes and springs of karst country show in it well. A cooperative's clearance and danger tree questions, a timber owner's stand, or a farm's drainage and pond sites are finer than that data and change every season, which is where a drone flight of the corridor or the farm comes in.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit Springfield

Forestry

Three dimensional view of a farm elevation model with fields, tree mounds, and the pond in relief.

Farm Planning

Orthomosaic of a creek corridor through Phoenix, Oregon, clipped to the project area.

Property

Drone LiDAR Start here
Bare earth under the canopy, contours, surface and canopy height models, classified point clouds and line corridors, PPK controlled and checked.
Forestry Start here
Stand inventory, species and health classes, downed woody debris counted and measured from the air, post harvest monitoring.
Farm planning Start here
Terrain, drainage low points, slope and sun, canopy, and plan overlays drawn on a current orthomosaic of the whole farm.
GIS consulting and data
Hosted data, web maps and dashboards, Survey123 field apps, scripted reporting, and the cleanup of the data you already have.
Tree inventory and canopy
Every crown in a city, a park system or a campus, with height, species and health, checked against trees on the ground.
Rivers, riparian and habitat
Species along a river corridor, wetlands and habitat, cold water seeps found with thermal, and baselines for restoration work.
Property and site design
Design ready contours, tree points and surface models, in the formats and coordinate system the engineer specifies.
Multispectral imaging
Five calibrated bands, vegetation indices, and species and health classification with its accuracy reported.
Thermal infrared
A calibrated temperature in every pixel, flown as a mapping mission, for cold water seeps and the heat differences a river corridor shows.
Federal and agency work
LiDAR on abandoned mine lands and forest data for federal land managers. Registered in SAM.gov.

Nearest work

The Ozarks have not seen the aircraft yet. The record that applies: a corridor measured tree by tree, a hardwood and conifer unit assessed after harvest, and a farm planned on drone LiDAR terrain.

Overview of the Bear Creek corridor through Phoenix from the June 2025 LiDAR: the greenway, the creek, and the highway with the young planting in place.

Property 2025

A planting corridor through Phoenix, tree by tree

City of Phoenix

The year one record for 98 trees the city planted where the Almeda fire burned through Phoenix, from drone LiDAR and RGB flown 65 days after planting.

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