Jason Krueger

Author's details

Name: Jason Krueger
Date registered: March 20, 2014

Biography

I am a project manager in Ayres’ geospatial operations in Madison, Wisconsin. I have 17 years of experience with land information and mapping for public and private entities. I specialize in geospatial project design for municipal engineering and transportation design. Recent project assignments include considerable work for the Northern Colorado Consortium and the Illinois GIS Consortium, an organization of 23 municipalities in the Chicago area

Latest posts

  1. Unmanned Aerial Systems – one tool in the geospatial toolbox — May 24, 2019
  2. High Density Lidar for Colorado DOT Applications — December 20, 2017
  3. Baselines are Critical for Asset Management Solutions — October 11, 2017
  4. Capturing an Impressive Display of Aviation History — August 10, 2017
  5. Ayres Associates Works with Kids at the Children’s Water Festival in Fort Collins, CO — June 9, 2017

Most commented posts

  1. Mapping Transmission and Distribution Lines with Fixed-wing Lidar Systems — 3 comments
  2. Land information gathering highlights best of Wisconsin — 3 comments
  3. Ayres Spatially Integrated Video System — 1 comment
  4. Ayres Shares New Oblique Solution at UMGEOCON ’16 — 1 comment

Author's posts listings

Feb 26

Ayres/SAA to Present at 2015 APA-WI Annual Planning Workshop

SAA’s Blake Theisen and Jason Krueger of Ayres Associates will present at the 2015 American Planning Association-Wisconsin Annual Planning Workshop at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. The workshop this year focuses on the Tech Side of Planning. Blake and Jason will present their talk “GIS Data: Different Sources, Similar Environments – Aerial Imagery, LiDAR, 3D.” The conference …

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Jan 07

LiDAR Video from NEON

Here’s a new video from National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) that does a great job of describing basics of Lidar technology: “How Does LiDAR Remote Sensing Work?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbhNSUnIdU&feature=player_embedded          

Dec 19

Found in Illinois, 2014 (Part III, History)

Approximately 4000 square miles of high resolution digital aerial imagery collected in Illinois by Ayres Associates in 2014.  Thank you to all of our friends for making this year a tremendous success!  Throughout the year we’ve collected snapshots of the unique cultural, historical, and natural sites in your communities and wanted to share them with everyone. There is …

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Dec 14

Found in Illinois, 2014 (Part II, Architecture)

Approximately 4000 square miles of high resolution digital aerial imagery collected in Illinois by Ayres Associates in 2014.  Thank you to all of our friends for making this year a tremendous success!  Throughout the year we’ve collected snapshots of the unique cultural, historical, and natural sites in your communities and wanted to share them with everyone. Allerton House, …

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Dec 10

Found in Illinois, 2014 (Part I, Football)

Approximately 4000 square miles of high resolution digital aerial imagery collected in Illinois by Ayres Associates in 2014.  Thank you to all of our friends for making this year a tremendous success!  Throughout the year we’ve collected snapshots of the unique cultural, historical, and natural sites in your communities and wanted to share them with everyone. Part I …

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Oct 10

Tracking Impact of Emerald Ash Borer from Aerial Imagery

Ayres Associates is providing specialized infrared aerial imagery and LiDAR tools for urban tree canopy analysis in the Chicago area. Municipalities are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the impacts of the Emerald Ash Borer on urban forests. Aerial imagery may provide a useful tool for detecting dead and dying trees and for tracking the decline in the tree …

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Sep 14

Surveying Steamboat Lake – Above and Below the Water Line

Merging Bathymetric Survey and Aerial Lidar             Ayres Associates is supporting the analysis of the Steamboat Lake with integrated bathymetric and aerial Lidar survey.  Working with GeoSurv Inc. of Lafayette, CO, Ayres conducted a survey of the lake bottom and sub bottom – merging the data with topographic mapping collected …

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Sep 05

Aerial Photography Supports Ayres Survey & Municipal Projects

Ayres’ RCD30 digital camera provides surveyors with the ability to economically and quickly acquire aerial photography to support field operations. The Land Survey and Green Bay Municipal engineering groups of Ayres Associates are working with the Village of Denmark, WI (10 miles from Green Bay) in an effort to develop an industrial park on the west side of Interstate …

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Aug 31

3D Urban Modeling in the Chicago Suburbs

Advancements in Lidar processing tools and techniques are enabling new 3D modeling possibilities for GIS. Ayres Associates acquired high density Lidar of Tinley Park, Illinois in the spring of 2014.  The primary objective of the project was the development of 1-ft interval contours and a bare earth surface model for stormwater management applications.  However, there is …

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Aug 26

HD Scanning – Another Tool in the Toolbox

In addition to providing high accuracy survey, HD Laser Scanning enables workload and staffing flexibility for the Geospatial Division. HD Laser Scanners create a highly detailed and precise point cloud.  After collecting and calibrating the data in the field, the work of measuring and extracting the detailed information for CAD drawings occurs back at the office.  This workflow represents a high …

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Jul 15

Street Level Mapping from Laser Scanner

Laser scanners provide a unique perspective for municipal survey and mapping. A 3D point cloud generated using a Leica P20 Laser Scanner is used by our Lidar specialists to extract digital terrain data and planimetrics- recreating traditional CAD-based mapping compiled from conventional survey and photogrammetry. For this example, we compiled curb and gutter, utilities, improvements, and other structures along a …

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Jul 02

Aerial Imagery Captures Recent History of Flooding in Greeley, CO

Flood events in Colorado in 2013 and 2014 have been recorded using aerial imagery- providing the City of Greeley with a valuable tool for assessing flood extent and for analyzing storm water infrastructure and improvements.   In September of 2013, Ayres Associates collected aerial imagery of the South Platte River and its tributaries near peak flood stage, …

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May 28

Tree Canopy Mapping from LiDAR in Chicago Region

Urban Tree Canopy Mapping in Tinley Park, IL. Ayres Associates derived tree crown and centroid data in the Village of Tinley Park using fixed-wing aerial LiDAR acquired at ~ 20 points per square meter. Individual tree crowns and centroids were prepared in shapefile format along with a rasterized Canopy Height Model (CHM). These vectorized features are attributed with calculated statistics …

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May 01

Ayres Associates Featured in Leica Article on Colorado Floods

Leica Geosystems publishes article about aerial imagery collected during the historic Colorado floods in 2013 http://www.leica-geosystems.us/en/Flooding_pdf_v3.pdf    The article does a great job of highlighting the efforts of the professionals on the user end.  The engineers, floodplain and stormwater managers, surveyors, emergency responders, GIS specialists, and others deserve a great deal of thanks for their hard …

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Apr 29

GIS Consortium Utilizes the New UltraCAM Falcon in 2014

The GIS Consortium (GISC) successfully wraps up another spring aerial imagery mission. Approximately 130 square miles of high resolution aerial imagery was acquired for the Consortium in 2014 using Microsoft’s new UltraCAM Falcon. The imagery will ultimately support a wide range of municipal applications including engineering, planning and zoning, and public safety.   We are …

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