Stand read · north Idaho
A stand we flew, resolved tree by tree.
A stand read is a planning-grade tree list from a reconstruction: heights, optional inferred volume, trees that already look dead, and a short walk list. Little Boulder Creek is the reference — flown, rebuilt, and open in the browser. It is not a cruise.
Hours for a picture and a walk list. Not sale volume. Not a diagnosis.
When this comes up
The cruise is not the problem. The grid is.
Foresters already know how to measure a plot. What they cannot afford is walking every one of them at the same intensity. These are the moments a whole-stand picture earns its keep.
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Before a cruise
You have a property to inventory and a limited number of plots. You need to know where the stand actually changes before you lay the grid.
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After a storm or fire
Something hit the canopy and you need a first-pass map of where mortality and blowdown concentrated — before you send a crew into every unit.
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A health inspection list
Visible decline is showing up in pieces of the property. You need those areas ranked for inspection, not a diagnosis from the air.
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A plan on ground you rarely walk
A management plan is due on a parcel nobody has cruised in years, and you need a picture of the whole thing before you decide where the professional days go.
Look at the actual output
A stand, resolved tree by tree.
This is a preview from our own reference site — not a validated cruise. 45 acres flown as six overlapping orbits, 1,562 frames reconstructed into a point cloud, then cut into an estimated 3,100–4,100 individual trees. You can open it and fly through it in your browser.
Little Boulder Creek, north Idaho — flown, reconstructed, and segmented in an afternoon. Every tree carries a position, a height, and a crown boundary. A pilot on your ground produces stand layers and a plot-priority map from this kind of survey, then a forester still measures the plots that matter.
- 45.1 ac
- surveyed, six overlapping orbits
- 13.6M
- points in the cloud your browser streams
- 3,100–4,100
- trees in the surveyed core, estimated (about ±20%); positions checked on two plots
- 0.71 m
- median georeferencing error, no ground control
Little Boulder Creek, Idaho · 12 July 2026
Little Boulder Creek
Seven acres to walk.
The same 63.6 m grid, cut to the acres that are tall, uneven, or already flagged dead. Walk them from the south end. Heights are canopy minus the 3DEP ground, unanchored by about ±4 m. Dead flags are brown, gray, or defoliated crowns, not a diagnosis.
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Tall canopy
The tall trees are about 19 m, one of them 26 m. E 541713 · N 5180321.
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Flagged dead
10 crowns flagged dead. E 541776 · N 5180448.
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Heights change
The middle half of the trees spans 7 m in height. E 541776 · N 5180512.
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Flagged dead
11 crowns flagged dead. E 541713 · N 5180512.
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Tall canopy
The tall trees are about 21 m. E 541713 · N 5180575.
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Flagged dead · Heights change · Tall canopy
13 crowns flagged dead. The middle half of the trees spans 9 m in height. The tall trees are about 19 m. E 541586 · N 5180512.
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Heights change
The middle half of the trees spans 9 m in height. E 541522 · N 5180512.
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What a stand read produces
Two layers. One job: send the crew to the right ground.
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Planning-grade tree list
Segmented trees across the covered area: position, height, crown extent. Optional board feet inferred from height — unvalidated, generic conifer, not a cruise. Use it to see where the stand changes before you spend plot days.
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Visible-dead flags
RGB-only late-stage dead: brown, gray, defoliated. Ranked for a walk, not scored as vigor. Not early stress, not insect green-attack, not a diagnosis. Lidar-only jobs have no color and get no flags.
Decision support, not a replacement. NatureNet complements conventional timber cruising and professional forestry judgment. It does not replace legally or professionally required cruises, appraisals, or tree-risk assessments. We do not claim verified carbon or biomass measurements without a formal methodology.
How a stand read works
Four steps from video to a walk list.
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Bring the video
Aerial video of the stand — circling orbits, not a nadir TIFF. Capture can be yours, or coordinated separately.
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Delineate and screen
Stand boundaries, the tree list, optional inferred volume, and visible-dead flags if the capture has RGB — the variables named in the SOW.
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Rank the plots
A walk list: tall, variable, or flagged-dead places a person should stand. The uniform grid becomes a short list.
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Review and deliver
A review session with the forester who will walk it. GIS and PDF outputs, plus DataHub access for the engagement term.