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Wisconsin Regional Ortho Consortium

The Wisconsin Regional Orthoimagery Consortium (WROC) is a multi-entity group with the goal of building and sustaining a program to acquire digital orthoimagery and elevation data statewide. The WROC approach brings potential benefits to members, including cost savings, specifications and standards support, data sharing between members and partners, and procurement support. Flights to collect aerial… Read More »

Boulder Lidar & Orthoimagery

The City of Boulder chose the Ayres team to provide geospatial services for a project that developed a high-accuracy, bare-earth surface model through the use of high-density aerial lidar. This data is being used in floodplain and mitigation studies, vegetation and canopy analysis, and urban planning studies. The lidar also supports the mapping of electric… Read More »

Menominee County Orthos & Lidar

Menominee Tribal Enterprises selected Ayres to acquire and process lidar (light detection and ranging) and orthoimagery across Menominee County in 2015 as part of the Wisconsin Regional Orthophotography Consortium program, including using remote sensing to document and analyze the regeneration of a 21-mile-long, 2,200-acre area of forest destroyed by a tornado in 2007. The remote… Read More »