Readiness, from the ground up.
Northline Readiness is a geospatial, risk and preparedness firm for industry and municipalities. We write emergency plans and hazard assessments, run exercises and do geospatial planning for the industrial, community and climate risks you actually face, with drone and image analysis, interior capture and a client portal your team uses year-round. On-site across North America.
Wildfire. Flood. What is actually at risk on your ground.
Four live demonstrations on public data, open in your browser, no sign-up. Raise a river through a real town, drag the line across a burn and a hurricane, turn a laser scan in 3D. Water scenarios are screening-level and are not an official flood map.
Flood: Muskoka River, Bracebridge
Provincial lidar of a real Ontario town. Raise the river and watch what goes under first, measured from the river each spot drains to. The water reaches about 15 buildings at a 2 metre rise. Screening-level. Not an official flood map.
Wildfire: Jasper, Alberta, 2024
The same town from space, before and after the fire, with the official perimeter and a burn severity map we compute from the satellite bands. 31,645 hectares inside the perimeter. Observed from satellite. Screening-level.
Hurricane: Fort Myers Beach, 2022
The same beach before Hurricane Ian and two days after it came ashore. The pier is down to its pilings, and the buildings along the beach are debris and bare slabs. Aerial photos: USDA NAIP and NOAA, public domain.
Lidar: the same river in 3D
Every tree, roof and riverbank along this reach of the Muskoka River, measured by laser from the air and coloured by height. 25 million laser points. Scan-derived, not survey-grade.
We measure the building first. Then we plan for it.
Most emergency plans are written against a floor plan that is years out of date and one walkthrough somebody did once. Northline captures the site as it is today, then writes and exercises the plan against that measurement. The scan is not a separate business; it is how the planning work is done.
Northline Capture — patent pending.
Plan reviews and HIRA
Expert review against the applicable Canadian and United States standards, including NFPA 1600 and CSA Z1600, with hazard identification and risk assessment anchored to a visual walkthrough of the facility. Findings link back to your plans and stay current as the site changes.
Exercises run against the real building
A tabletop against a measured model of your facility is a different exercise: real staging areas, real egress widths, the pipe where it actually runs. Tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises, with after-action reports written for inspectors.
Digital facility
Hazards, utility shutoffs, fire protection systems and critical assets documented inside an interactive model your team reaches before, during and after an emergency.
Readiness as a number that moves
A readiness score visible to your team every day rather than once a year, in a client portal alongside your plans, findings, hazard overlays and exercise history. It moves with plan compliance, exercise cadence, open findings and how recently the site was captured.
Training
Hands-on emergency response training on real ground: collapsed structure, confined space, technical rescue and robotics. A measured building is where a plan starts; training is where it becomes something a team can carry out.
Industries served
Industrial operators — chemical, ammonia refrigeration, fuel terminals, oil and gas, water and wastewater, food processing, pharmaceuticals and mining. We capture tank farms, process areas and stockpiles, then plan for release, fire and evacuation.
Healthcare systems — hospitals, multi-facility networks and emergency department decontamination receiving teams, including CMS and Accreditation Canada exercise programmes. We capture decontamination corridors, egress routes and plant rooms, then plan and exercise surge and evacuation.
Critical infrastructure — utilities, power, telecommunications, water, transportation and other regulated critical infrastructure operators. We capture substations, corridors and remote sites, then plan against outage and access failure.
How the measurements are stated
Measurements are scan-derived and accurate to roughly a centimetre. They are evidence to support expert review, not survey-grade, and never an automatic compliance verdict: the consultant references the applicable codes and makes the call. Every finding is attested by a person.
Capture work is processed on Northline-controlled infrastructure in North America and is never handed to a third-party scanning service. Captures from Canadian sites are processed and stored in Canada.