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St. Joseph, Missouri

Loess hills, river bottoms, and a parkway through an old river town.

St. Joseph is an old river town on the loess bluffs an hour north of Kansas City, with a parkway system through its middle, farms on the bottoms and the hills, and the cooperatives and the river itself to manage. Farm planning and corridor terrain are what fits here, with canopy for the parkway.

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The ground

St. Joseph and Buchanan County and Andrew County

The city sits where the loess hills meet the Missouri, with the river bottoms below town and the deep, erodible loess soils of the uplands behind it, some of the richest and most fragile farmland in the state. Corn and beans fill the bottoms and the hills alike; the Platte River of Missouri comes down from the north east. The parkway, Krug Park and the bluff parks carry the city's older trees, and the Loess Bluffs refuge lies up the river.

Who buys mapping here

  • City of St. Joseph: Public Works and Transportation, Parks, Recreation and Civic Facilities, the GIS group
  • Buchanan County and Andrew County: Public Works, Emergency Management, Planning
  • United Electric Cooperative and the cooperatives of north west Missouri; Evergy's corridors
  • Buchanan County and Andrew County soil and water conservation districts and the NRCS field offices
  • The Missouri Department of Conservation's Northwest region and the Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
  • Missouri Western State University grounds
  • Row crop operations on the bottoms and the loess hills, and the levee and drainage districts along the river

Getting there

From Medford

St. Joseph is an hour north of Kansas City International on Interstate 29. It is the northern end of the Missouri trip.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

The statewide lidar covers Buchanan and Andrew counties and the river has been flown for flood and levee work. Loess erodes between flights: a field's gullies, a terrace system, a bottomland's drainage after a flood year and a corridor's clearance want a current flight at the field scale with the control to prove it, which is what we would bring.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit St. Joseph

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
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 service

Everything we do, in St. Joseph

  • Farm planning Start here

    Terrain, drainage low points, slope and sun, canopy, and plan overlays drawn on a current orthomosaic of the whole farm.

  • 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.

  • Tree inventory and canopy Start here

    Every crown in a city, a park system or a campus, with height, species and health, checked against trees on the ground.

  • GIS consulting and data

    Hosted data, web maps and dashboards, Survey123 field apps, scripted reporting, and the cleanup of the data you already have.

  • Forestry

    Stand inventory, species and health classes, downed woody debris counted and measured from the air, post harvest monitoring.

  • 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

North west Missouri waits its turn. The applicable record: a farm planned on drone LiDAR terrain, a site mapped for engineers, and a city tree inventory.

Three dimensional overview of the farm elevation model draped over the landscape.

Farm Planning 2023

A farm plan on real ground

Plant Oregon with Oregon Urban Rural and Community Forestry, a tree nursery in development

Terrain, ponds, tree mounds, and a site plan drawn on a current ortho of the whole farm.

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Contour plan view over a high school track and field, one foot contours from drone LiDAR.

Property 2023

A school site, ready for the engineers

Pacific 3D Reality Capture, for the Brookings Harbor High School campus

Drone LiDAR terrain and contours over a 37 acre school campus, delivered as plan sheets and CAD ready data for the design team.

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Crown polygons and treetops over the 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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The record

Our published forestry, river, terrain and farm work

Forestry and trees

Rivers and habitat

Terrain and site design

Farm planning

St. Joseph, the north end of the trip.

A loess field, a bottomland farm, a cooperative corridor or the parkway's trees. Tell us the ground and we will finish the Missouri trip here.

Talk to Eli

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