Missouri’s Meramec River is one of the largest free-flowing waterways in the state. Our team monitored the flood waters and was able to conduct aerial imagery acquisition to pull together a complete coverage of the flooded area for local communities and disaster recovery officials.

Our team performed all imagery acquisition and processing as well as most of the LiDAR acquisition (approximately 3,100 square miles) for this project. In order to enable capture of peak flood conditions, typical orthoimagery acquisition specifications for no clouds or haze, etc. were not required for this project.

On May 22, 2019, an EF-3 tornado hit Jefferson City, MO. Within a few hours, several geospatial entities within the state established a data acquisition plan. Because of the emergency nature of this project, it was essential to provide data as quickly as possible to assist first responders in relief and recovery activities.