AeroMetric’s technical capabilities, equipment and staff, along with our commitment to research and client satisfaction, bring significant advan-tages to forestry clients. Our on-target geospatial solutions provide exceptional value for forest management; AeroMetric’s solutions go beyond traditional mapping services — we custom design statistically sound forest biometric and forest inventory solutions, including modeling estimation of volume, biomass, carbon sequestration, and providing deliverables which support stand management applications.AeroMetric’s ApproachLiDAR is the next step in the progression of forest inventory and monitor-ing. A LiDAR forest management program combines traditional plot sampling with high precision mapped outputs. The results provide a wealth of information that is simply not available from other sources. A properly designed forest inventory program, enhanced with LiDAR, can be cost-effective relative to traditional methods.LiDAR Enhanced Forest InventoryHow does LiDAR enhance traditional cruising? LiDAR can provide much more precise information on canopy surface, height and cover character-istics, over an entire stand or forest, than can possibly be derived from sample field plots.With a properly designed collection and modeling program, LiDAR can be combined with limited field plot data to produce highly reliable estimates of volume, biomass, basal area, density and other key metrics. For the cost of a conventional forest cruise, AeroMetric will work with you to design a LiDAR enhanced forest inventory program.Volume, Biomass, Carbon Sequestration and Forest Fuel EstimatesAeroMetric's LiDAR solution incorporates the use of model-assisted strategies to create custom outputs that will meet your stand, strata or tract reporting requirements.LiDAR Assisted Stand ManagementLiDAR allows for more reliable stand management, including comprehen-sive forest maps of height, mean diameter, basal area, volume and selected other variables. The improved mapping products supported by LiDAR also enable precise boundary delineations, and capture change detection resulting from harvesting and thinning, as well as fire, wind and insect damage.LiDAR Derived Terrain ModelingTimber harvest planning, road construction, environmental impact assessments and many other applications benefit from the detailed terrain data provided by LiDAR.

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Canopy Surface Modeling

Aerial PhotographyLiDARDigital Elevation ModelsOrthophotographyPlanimetric MappingTopographic MappingEnterprise GISRemote SensingSatellite Imagery

Forest MappingEnvironmental MappingHazard MappingEmergency Response MappingGeospatial Cloud

Aero-Metric, Inc., (AeroMetric) is a full-service geospatial solutions company built on over eight decades of consistent, quality service and enduring client relationships. The firm offers a comprehensive range of on-target geospatial solutions including the latest in photogrammetric, LiDAR, satellite and airborne imaging technology, and has earned a reputation for technical excellence, superior service, and on-time, on-budget delivery.

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LiDAR Forestry SolutionsAeroMetric will work with you to design a carefully matched LiDAR and field plot collection program, develop the most appropriate models, and assure a statistically defensible result. The cost of a carefully designed LiDAR program is often offset by a reduction in the number of plots required to sample a stand. Why then, if costs are similar, is LiDAR a vastly superior forest management tool?LiDAR data covers the entire forest, not just sample plots. This gives the modern forest manager a high precision canopy height model, a high precision canopy cover model, detailed maps of volume, biomass, basal area and other key metrics, plus a highly accurate terrain modelThis means that along with reduced on-the-ground cruising, you obtain greater levels of confidence with LiDAR and a wealth of additional data sets. In addition to reliable stand level statistics, you can now examine any location you wish within a stand for characteristics of canopy cover, canopy height, timber volume, basal area, diameter, trees per acre, biomass and many other forest attributes.

GIS Forestry SolutionsAs GIS technologies move from the desktop to the web, AeroMetric can support your enterprise Forestry GIS operations with custom services. These can include forest inventory management, remote device access and application development for growth modeling, stand and tract management, harvest and cruising operation oversight, and carbon seques-tration and condition reporting.

Environmental Forestry SolutionsAeroMetric’s environmental mapping solutions provide critical baseline and monitoring data for Environmental Impact Statements, and topical studies such as insect infestation, invasive plant investigations, and erosion monitoring. Our experience with leading edge digital sensors, coupled with our remote sensing expertise allow us to deploy a comprehen-sive set of tools to match any field condition requiring analysis.

Hazard Assessment and Emergency Response Forestry SolutionsProtection of forest lands starts with reliable hazard and risk assessment. AeroMetric’s detailed mapping can be used to develop biofuel inventories and risk maps. During an emergency we offer rapid-response aerial services including the coordination of air, satellite and mobile platform deployment, data consolidation in the cloud, and rapid data distribution to emergency responders and stakeholders. After an emergency, we can provide post-event analysis of forest conditions allowing for rapid recovery of the forest lands.

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