About Us
Horizon GeoData captures the ground-level data that aerial mapping can’t reach.
We use ground-based SLAM LiDAR to document forests, terrain, and built environments from the inside — producing survey-grade 3D point clouds that quantify conditions on the ground rather than inferring them from above. For wildfire mitigation programs, that means measurable before-and-after records of what a treatment actually accomplished. For engineering and land development clients, it means high-accuracy terrain models and CAD/GIS-ready deliverables built on real field control.
Our work spans wildfire fuels documentation, defensible space assessment, topographic mapping, and mobile scanning in complex or GPS-denied environments. Every project is built around the same standard: data that is defensible, repeatable, and formatted to drop directly into the workflows our clients already use.
Based in Ketchum, Idaho, Horizon GeoData serves the Wood River Valley and the Intermountain West — working with land managers, county programs, engineering firms, municipalities, and private landowners.
Our Founder
Patrick Taylor built Horizon GeoData from a foundation in geology, where mapping, structure, and terrain are not abstractions but physical systems that shape risk, safety, and long-term planning.
He began his career in academic and field research, contributing to structural mapping on the Denali Fault in Alaska and research on the San Andreas Fault in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey. He later worked on sinkhole analysis with the Kentucky Geological Survey, where precise surface documentation was critical to understanding subsurface instability.
That work produced an insight he still carries into every engagement: spatial data must be defensible, repeatable, and grounded in field reality — because it will be used to make decisions that matter.
From applied geology, Patrick moved into integrating GNSS survey control, UAV operations, point cloud processing, and CAD/GIS production into structured workflows. He holds FAA Part 107 certification and works across the full lifecycle of a project — planning capture strategy, establishing control networks, collecting field data, processing LiDAR and imagery, and delivering clean, organized datasets ready for analysis and long-term documentation.
Living and working in the Wood River Valley, he founded Horizon GeoData around a specific conviction: that wildfire mitigation, forest stewardship, and land management decisions deserve the same standard of measurement that engineering and geology have always demanded.
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