Jefferson City, Missouri

The capital on the bluff, where the state's land agencies buy maps.

Jefferson City is the Missouri River on a limestone bluff, the state capitol and the agencies that manage Missouri's forests, parks, conservation lands and roads, and a working farm landscape in every direction. Design terrain, corridor LiDAR and canopy are the flights that fit, and the agencies are the buyers.

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The ground

Jefferson City and Cole County and Callaway County

The capitol stands on the bluff above the Missouri with the river bottoms and Callaway County across the water. Behind the city the land rolls south in oak and hickory hills toward the Osage River and the Lake of the Ozarks; the Katy Trail runs along the north bank. Farms, timber and the cooperative lines fill the counties around it, and the Runge conservation area and the state parks sit at the city's edge.

Who buys mapping here

The Missouri Department of Conservation, headquartered here, and the Runge Conservation Nature Center
Missouri State Parks and the Department of Natural Resources; the Missouri Department of Transportation's central office
City of Jefferson: Public Works, Parks, Recreation and Forestry, Planning
Cole County and Callaway County: Public Works, Emergency Management
Three Rivers Electric Cooperative and the cooperatives of mid Missouri; Ameren Missouri's corridors
Lincoln University and its agricultural research farms
The Katy Trail and the river bottom landowners; the Osage River valley farms
Engineers and developers building on the bluffs and in the hills south of town

Getting there

From Medford

Jefferson City is half an hour south of Columbia and Interstate 70, two and a half hours from either big airport. It pairs with Columbia on the Missouri trip.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

The state's own lidar covers Cole and Callaway counties and the agencies that commissioned it work from it daily. For a site on the bluff, a corridor through the hills, a conservation area's forest or a farm's drainage, the question is the current ground and this year's trees at a finer scale, which a drone flight of the parcel answers.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit Jefferson City

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

Property

Forestry

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

Farm Planning

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 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.
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.
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

No Missouri flight is logged yet. The work that shows the method: a campus mapped for engineers with the control on the sheet, a corridor counted tree by tree, and a timber unit's debris measured from the air.

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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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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