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Ayres provided services for the Moriah Energy Center during preliminary design and early construction, beginning with a lidar-based topographic survey to establish site conditions and support design. The team staked and flagged clearing corridors and laid out seismic refraction survey lines to support site preparation and geotechnical investigations. Ayres performed staking for limits of disturbance, drainage features, access roads, and utilities.

Ayres has provided the City of Bozeman with orthoimagery, lidar, and land cover mapping services for several years. In 2023 Ayres used aerial imagery and lidar data to map land use and land cover across a 78-square-mile area. The mapping supports the City's water resource and conservation planning efforts amid continued growth and development. Additional work has refined impervious surface datasets, including detailed sidewalk mapping.

Ayres provided surveying and mapping support for the reconstruction and capacity expansion of I-41 between Capitol Drive and Burleigh Street. The use of high-definition laser scanning supported the design of additional lanes on the bridges crossing rail lines, including establishing survey control, topographic data collection, feature location, utility coordination, mapping preparation, and processing of survey data for highway and bridge design.

Ayres was part of a team of consultants that provided topographic surveying, bathymetric survey, and aerial mapping at Kingsley Dam and Lake McConaughy in Keith County, Nebraska. These services supported the Kingsley Dam Upstream Slope Protection Project to reface the eroded riprap along the state's largest dam. It is also expected that the Kingsley surveying and mapping will serve as the baseline topography going forward.

Portage County uses lidar to support public and private sector projects. To make this data more accessible, we developed Ayres Lidar Online, a cloud platform allowing users to view and analyze data through a standard web browser. Users can measure features, create terrain profiles, and evaluate conditions for planning, infrastructure, and environmental projects. Making complex datasets accessible helps stakeholders make informed decisions.

Ayres provided construction staking, surveying, and UAS mapping for the Toyota Battery Plant (a k a Greensboro-Randolph Megasite). The project required coordination across a large, active construction site. Ayres performed daily construction staking and weekly drone flights to collect high-resolution imagery and support topographic mapping. Using rotary- and fixed-wing drones, the team delivered aerial data to contractors within hours of each flight.

Ayres has supported high-accuracy lidar mapping projects throughout Wisconsin since the early 2000s, including multiple efforts for Dane County. In 2024 Ayres helped a group of counties secure federal 3D Elevation Program funding and additional grant funding for QL1 lidar acquisition. In Dane County, lidar mapping was developed through the Fly Dane Partnership, a collaboration among local, state, and private organizations that reduces costs.