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Every case names what was flown, what was delivered, and the numbers with what they measure. Filter by the kind of work.

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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.

Post harvest and debris

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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.

Forest healthRiparian and species

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Douglas fir crowns colored by health class over the Ashland watershed orthomosaic.

Forestry 2023 to 2024

At risk, declining, dieback, dead

City of Ashland

About 30,000 Douglas fir crowns classed by health across the city's watershed lands, so the city could see the die off and act on it.

Forest health

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Night infrared mosaic of Woodrat Mountain with the heat perimeter over the orthomosaic.

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.

Fire infrared

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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.

Post harvest and debrisForest health

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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.

Fire infrared

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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.

Riparian and speciesHabitat and conservation

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Ladder fuel classification in a LiDAR point cloud on a Medford demonstration property, with a ground photo of the stand inset.

Forestry 2024 to 2025

Citywide LiDAR for the Ashland CWPP

City of Ashland

Citywide drone LiDAR that gave the 2025 Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan its ladder fuel and structure exposure numbers.

Fuels and wildfire planning

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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.

Terrain and site design

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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.

Terrain and site design

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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.

Farm planning

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Shaded relief of Harley Gulch from the drone LiDAR bare earth model, canyons and old workings in relief.

Property 2025

Ten abandoned mines, bare earth under the chaparral

Bat Conservation International, on Bureau of Land Management land, Ukiah Field Office

Bare earth, surface, and canopy height models over 779.4 acres of abandoned mine sites under steep chaparral, checked against the public LiDAR at 0.320 m RMSE.

Habitat and conservationTerrain and site design

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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.

Corridors and urban treesTerrain and site design

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Night thermal map of the East Evans Creek fire, scattered heat sources glowing across burned ground.

Wildland Fire 2026

East Evans Creek, a season inside one fire

Oregon Department of Forestry

Fifteen nights on one incident across three weeks, eight divisions, and a heat map in the GIS specialist's hands before the morning briefing.

Fire infrared

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Night infrared of the Fielder Mountain fire on its first night, more than a thousand separate heat sources glowing across dark burned ground.

Wildland Fire 2026

Fielder Mountain, eleven nights as the heat went out

Oregon Department of Forestry

Eleven nights of infrared on one steep fire in August 2026. The heat sources on the map fell from 2,852 on the first night to 58 on the last.

Fire infrared

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Night infrared of the Interstate 5 fire before dawn on its first night, heat sources and patches of heat glowing inside the outlined perimeter.

Wildland Fire 2026

Interstate 5 at milepost 57, initial attack beside the freeway

Oregon Department of Forestry

Initial attack beside Interstate 5 near Grants Pass in August 2026. A perimeter map the first evening, then two flights most nights, five nights in all.

Fire infrared

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Night infrared of the Woodrat Mountain fire on its first night, heat glowing across most of the burn inside the outlined perimeter.

Wildland Fire 2026

Woodrat Mountain, from initial attack to the last check

Oregon Department of Forestry

Three nights across two weeks on one fire in the Applegate Valley in August 2026. Initial attack, a mopup map, and a last look for heat that found almost none.

Fire infrared

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Agencies and clients we have worked with

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

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