Announcing!
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services
Department Overview
Many of our clients performing environmental assessment and permitting,
including regulator agencies and developers of industrial projects, can
make use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capabilities to enhance
their projects. GIS increases
project understanding, speeds up data collection and analysis, enables comparison and
selection of alternatives, and improves presentation effectiveness. Project Managers can
reduce budget expenditures using GIS. The industry trend is toward digital spatial
knowledge replacing paper documents and lower tech solutions. Pinpointing exact
locations in project analysis, project managers can increase productivity and can better
respond to stakeholders inquiries; regulatory agencies can identify and map sensitive
resources; and specialists can utilize geographic data for specific analysis.
Aspen's expanded GIS Services Department will join Aspen's internal project teams to
provide value added service to all of our clients. In addition, GIS Services will be available
for independent projects, outsourcing, and consultation.
Important Industry Tools We Now Offer
Products
- Cartographic maps: displays, hand-outs, wall-sized, atlases, presentations, publications, PowerPoint
- Field data collection: Infrastructure, Biological, Cultural
- QA/QC of all data for spatial and tabular accuracy
- Spatial and Imagery data analysis
- GIS training for agency staff
Field Methods
- Planning prior to data collection to ensure usable results
- GPS use: training and field collection for high accuracy data
- GPS Data Dictionary design and implementation
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Data Management
- Geographic database design and implementation
- Support for Shapefile, coverage, Geodatabase data models
- CADD to GIS data conversion and interoperability
- User-friendly GIS web page design for high impact
- Interactive map displays for web pages
Documentation for Projects
- Writing GIS sections for project documents
- Selection and management of GIS subcontractors
- Technical and public meeting participation
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Sample Project Types
- Compare and select alternative sites or Rights-of-Ways
- Evaluate habitat quality
- Reconnaissance & focused surveys
- Determine impacts
- Infrastructure asset management
- Alternative site selection
- Site restoration analysis
- Vegetation management
- Project conservation measures
How You Can Use GIS
- Track projects using real-world coordinates
- Represent field surveys accurately on maps and displays
- Show detail of linear projects accurately on maps and displays
- Present live project demonstrations in meetings
- Demonstrate an empirical "edge" in project documents using spatial data analysis
- Display data via the web for all project stakeholders
- Update project information accurately and seemlessly when new data becomes available
- Share your project with all parties involved through one dynamic system
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