Geodesy Remote Sensing Inc.

Geodesy Remote Sensing Inc.

  • 2 Winters Way
  • Okotoks, Alberta
  • T1S 1W9
  • Phone: (403) 938-6400
  • Fax: (403) 938-1624
  • Website

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Description

Geodesy Remote Sensing Inc. has been in business since 1987.
It has been actively involved in aerial photographic surveysthroughout Canada and overseas for the past nine years.

Geodesy's experience in Canada covers all of the Prairie
Provinces, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories includingthe High Arctic islands. With one aircraft system the firmhas averaged, in an April to October season, 350 hours ofphoto work that produces approximately 90 to 120 film rolls ofproduction.

The projects worked on cover virtually every application thatsurvey photo is put to. With an FMC camera Geodesy does manylow level, large scale projects for development andengineering projects. The client list therefore includes manyengineering and photogrammetry firms in private industry.
Much of the work performed is with all three levels ofgovernment, including agencies and crown corporations. Thecompany's work with this group of customers includes large- tosmall-scale projects of all sorts that require the whole rangeof film types. Geodesy has worked on projects where scaleshave ranged from 1:1,200 to 1:70,000.

A majority of its work the last seven years has been for the
Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife and the Federal
Government I.C.A.S. Geodesy also has experience working forthe United States National Science Foundation on the Antarctic
Continent.

Though this is still a young company, key individuals in theorganization have extensive experience in aviation and aerial survey, both domestic and international. In eight years,
3,000 hours of survey and over 350 individual projects havebeen carried out. This work has produced approximately 600
rolls of film and 240,000 line km of photography.

TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES
Equipment
2 Satellite Positioning Receivers
1 Camera
1 Multispectral Scanner
2 Aircraft
1 Photographic Processing Laboratory
1 Digitizing Table
3 Minicomputers
1 Microcomputer
1 Thermal Imager
1 Ultraviolet Camera

TYPICAL PROJECTS/CLIENTS
A sample client list is as follows: I.C.A.S., Alberta
Environment, Alberta Forest Lands and Wildlife, Alberta
Transportation, Saskatchewan Central Surveys and Mapping
Agency, City of Edmonton, City of Calgary, The Orthoshop,
UMA/Western Photogrammetry, Weldwood Forestry, Westar
Forestry, Westar Mining, Crestbrook Forest Ind., and others.

Fact sheet

Company founded
1987
Number of employees
3

Company contacts

  • Patrick Gropp
  • President
  • W.J. (Bill) Firth
  • Operations Manager
  • Janet Rose
  • Mapping Supervisor

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