Spatial Analysis

The GIS team has extensive experience with complex spatial analysis for both small scale and large multi-year projects. ESRI's ArcGIS products are our key GIS tools and we customize and automate our processing using Model Builder and custom programming. Our GIS department is recognized for managing large datasets and providing innovative solutions when current software limitations are reached. The majority of our spatial analysis is in support of resources analysis projects and involves building project specific resultants; which are the end product of assembling, compiling and coordinating multiple layers for a given study area.

• Canfor Inventory Data Model (CIDM) – Resultant building (70+ layers, study area covering 2.6 million ha)
• Morice and Lakes Innovative Forest Practices Agreement (IFPA) – Resultant building (100+ layers, study area covering 2.6 million ha)
• Yun Ka Whu’ten Holdings Ltd Sustainable Forest Management Plan – Resultant building (15 layers, study area covering 569,000 ha)
• Babine Forest Products, Fraser Lakes Sawmills and British Columbia Timber Sales (Babine Timber Sales Office) Forest Stewardship Plan - Identification and Analyses of Grizzly Bear Habitat
• Lakes North and South Sustainable Resource Management Plan – Identification and Analyses of Old Growth Management Areas (OGMAs)
• EnCana Suffield EIA - Various complex promimity, relationship, and density analysis performed to create detailed landscape metrics.
• Luscar - Detailed wildlife habitat analysis tracking changes in available habitat, habitat fragmentation, and habitat quality throughout a 50 year proposed project life cycle.
• University of Calgary - Performed network analysis allowing researches to track daily movements of radio tagged fish within several sub-basins of the Bow River.