Aerial view at dusk — town lights beneath an ember horizon
North Idaho
Labs

Laser scanning and drone flights.

AI-first

One sentence It sets up the scanner or the drone, and the mission: what the job must answer. See the work

The work

The administration building at the University of Idaho. The clock tower is marked, and a tripod drawn its real size on the pavement past a lamp post says set up here.

Site scanning

One sentence starts a scan. We plan the stations.

Open the scans Flight lines and photo points drafted over a town and its fields.

Drone Waypoints

Describe the flight. The lines show up in the browser.

Open the planner Drone view of a forest after leaf-drop. Most crowns are bare. A cluster of shrubs is still bright green.

Weeds and invasives

A flight shows the plants a crew should walk.

Open the missions Nadir view of a field, two white buildings, and a house beside a road.

A map from your photos

Photos you already flew, turned into a map.

Open the door

Also published: the Idaho Asset Atlas, the North Idaho EMS map, and Desk Rank and the Full Feeder Risk Pilot.

You say the job once.

Scanner, then drone.

The scanner

The administration building at the University of Idaho. The scanner's own points say where to set up next. A foundation model, through MCP, shows you the spot, the landmark beside it, and the tripod at its real size there, shadow on the ground. Tested with Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.6; both put the tripod on the same spot. See one mission.

First station. The clock tower is marked as seen and the wing's far side as hidden. A tripod drawn its real size on the pavement, past a lamp post, casts a shadow and says set up here.
This station. Set up next on the pavement, past the lamp post.
The first station from above: open ground in grey, walls in white, trees in green, and three numbered spots 25 to 38 m out.
From above. The three spots that see the most of what this station couldn't.

The drone

Describe the flight. The lines show up in the planner. Open the planner.

One objective that plans the scanner and the drone together is the next build.

Contact

contact@northidaholabs.com