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Roseburg, Oregon

Timber county, and eighteen nights on one fire.

In 2023 we flew division infrared on the Tyee Ridge Complex in Douglas County eighteen nights in a row. Roseburg is the Umpqua's county seat, the middle of Oregon's timber country, and an hour and a half up the freeway from the office.

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The ground

Roseburg and Douglas County

Roseburg sits where the North and South Umpqua join, in a county that is three quarters forest: BLM checkerboard, the Umpqua National Forest up the river, and industrial timberland on the rest. The valleys are hay, vineyards and cattle; the towns run from Reedsport on the coast to Glide and the canyon. The 2020 Archie Creek fire and the 2023 Tyee Ridge Complex both burned within sight of county roads.

Who buys mapping here

  • City of Roseburg: Public Works, Parks, the GIS group
  • Douglas County: Public Works, Emergency Management, Planning
  • Douglas Forest Protective Association, Roseburg Fire, and the rural fire districts up the river valleys
  • The BLM Roseburg District and the Umpqua National Forest
  • The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and its land programs
  • Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers and the Umpqua Soil and Water Conservation District
  • Douglas Electric Cooperative and Pacific Power
  • Industrial and family timber owners, consulting foresters, and the mills
  • Umpqua Community College and the vineyards of the Umpqua Valley

Getting there

From Medford

About an hour and a half north of Medford on Interstate 5. A day trip for most sites; an incident order gets a crew on the road the same afternoon.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

Douglas County has public lidar over much of its ground from the state and federal programs, flown for terrain and forest inventory at the stand scale. Tree by tree health, post harvest debris, a unit's riparian buffer or this season's fuels are a finer question, and a timber owner or a protective association gets them from a drone flight of the unit itself.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit Roseburg

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
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 Roseburg

  • Night infrared on active fires Start here

    Heat perimeters and hotspots in the incident team’s hands before the morning briefing. The pipeline that builds the package runs at the UAS Wildland Fire Collaborative, the nonprofit we founded.

  • Forestry Start here

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

  • Rivers, riparian and habitat Start here

    Species along a river corridor, wetlands and habitat, cold water seeps found with thermal, and baselines for restoration work.

  • GIS consulting and data

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

  • Drone LiDAR

    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

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

  • Wildfire fuels and CWPP support

    Canopy height, ladder fuels and structure exposure for a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, citywide when the plan needs it.

  • Farm planning

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

  • 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: fire heat classified in degrees, prescribed fire mortality, cold water seeps.

  • Federal and agency work

    Fire infrared, LiDAR on abandoned mine lands and forest data for federal land managers. Registered in SAM.gov.

Nearest work

The Tyee Ridge Complex, flown in this county, and two Oregon Department of Forestry post harvest jobs that show the forestry side.

Division L infrared map for the Tyee Ridge Complex on a topographic base, August 31, 2023.

Wildland Fire 2023

Tyee Ridge Complex

Oregon Department of Forestry

Nightly infrared mapping by division on a complex fire, including a spot fire caught outside the line.

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Oblique aerial view of a post harvest unit in the Oregon Coast Range: cut ground with slash, standing timber on the ridge behind.

Forestry 2023

Post harvest monitoring for ODF

Oregon Department of Forestry

The 2023 ODF unit on video and in a StoryMap, with how the LiDAR, multispectral, and RGB products were built.

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Post harvest assessment map: downed woody debris volume per acre with species of standing trees.

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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The record

Every project we have published

Forestry and trees

Rivers and habitat

Wildfire fuels and planning

Night infrared on fires

Terrain and site design

Farm planning

Douglas County: the unit, the reach, or the incident.

Tell us where the ground is and what the question is, a post harvest unit, a riparian buffer, a stand's health or a resource order, and we will answer with the flight and the products.

Talk to Eli

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