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St. Louis, Missouri

Forest Park and a hundred municipalities, each with trees to account for.

St. Louis is a city park the size of a small town, a county of nearly ninety municipalities with their own tree ordinances, and the bottomlands where the Missouri and the Illinois meet the Mississippi. Canopy inventory and floodplain terrain are what the region buys, and a region this fragmented buys it best from one consistent dataset.

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The ground

St. Louis and St. Louis City and St. Louis County and St. Charles County

The city sits on the Mississippi below the confluence, with Forest Park's thirteen hundred acres in its middle and the county's suburbs rolling west over the limestone hills to the Meramec and the Missouri. North, the Missouri comes in through the St. Charles bottoms; south, the Meramec valley and the state parks. Oak and hickory on the hills, cottonwood and silver maple in the bottoms, and street trees that have lost most of their ash to the borer since it arrived.

Who buys mapping here

  • City of St. Louis: Forestry Division, Parks, Recreation and Forestry, the Water Division, the GIS group
  • Forest Park Forever and the park's management partnership
  • St. Louis County: Parks and Recreation, Transportation and Public Works, Emergency Management, the county GIS
  • The Great Rivers Greenway district and its trail corridors
  • The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and its stormwater program
  • The municipalities of the county, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Clayton, University City, Chesterfield and the rest, with their tree boards
  • St. Charles County and the cities along the Missouri; the Missouri Department of Conservation's St. Louis region
  • Ameren's corridors and the cooperatives beyond the county line; Washington University and Saint Louis University grounds

Getting there

From Medford

St. Louis is a flight with the aircraft as checked freight and a truck at the airport. It anchors the eastern half of a Missouri trip, with Columbia and Jefferson City on the way to Kansas City.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

The region has statewide and federal lidar and the flood agencies have flown the rivers repeatedly, so the levees and the floodplains are well described. What a parks department, a municipality or a watershed group lacks is this year's canopy, crown by crown with species and condition, and a restoration or a stormwater project's ground at the resolution the design needs.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit St. Louis

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
Orthomosaic of a creek corridor through Phoenix, Oregon, clipped to the project area.
Property
Three dimensional view of a farm elevation model with fields, tree mounds, and the pond in relief.
Farm Planning

Every service

Everything we do, in St. Louis

  • 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 Start here

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

  • Property and site design Start here

    Design ready contours, tree points and surface models, in the formats and coordinate system the engineer specifies.

  • Drone LiDAR

    Bare earth under the canopy, contours, surface and canopy height models, classified point clouds and line corridors, PPK controlled and checked.

  • 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.

  • Farm planning

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

  • 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

Missouri is still ahead of us. The Oregon work that applies here: a city tree inventory of twelve thousand crowns, a river corridor classified by species, and a park mapped as a planimetrics pilot.

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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Riparian canopy polygons drawn as coloured outlines by dominant species over a true colour orthomosaic of a river corridor.

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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Planimetrics sheet for Colver Road Park.

Property 2022 to 2023

Colver Road Park, the LiDAR pilot

Rogue Reconnaissance pilot project

Our own pilot on a public park. Planimetrics, contours, tree canopy, and tree heights from drone LiDAR on one sheet, checked on the ground.

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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. Louis, one dataset for a hundred towns.

A park, a municipality's street trees, a greenway or a bottomland reach. Tell us who is asking and we will build the eastern leg of the trip around it.

Talk to Eli

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