Our Newest Department: GIS

SurvTech Solutions is proud to announce that we have officially formed a GIS (Geographic Information System) department! William Walker leads this department, which was originally launched from our Orlando office. By establishing this department, SurvTech is able to develop, host, and deliver GIS-ready topographic features, aerial imagery, contours, routes, and virtually any other geospatial asset you could imagine.

We have the capability to run tremendous volumes of data through our GIS infrastructure, utilizing both local and cloud-based datastores. GIS allows us to collect many localized surveys and assemble them at a larger scale to show where we have been, where we are currently working, and where we are going.

GIS / BIM Department Formed in 2022

Some of Survtech’s projects over the past 18 years (most recent dark blue).

Vast Library of Survey Files

One of the first orders of business is converting our existing survey library of various google earth KMZ files, CAD file formats (Autocad, Microstation), and other various geospatial file formats, into a single GIS database. This is a large undertaking, but we are making headway. When complete, we’ll have our full survey library live and mobile of our projects current and past. This will be behind digital lock and key so that it's not open for public consumption; but, if you have data with us, we can provide that same access to you as a service.

One of the largest gains we will see internally, from doing this is, as surveyors, is having a proprietary dataset of horizontal and vertical survey control we’ve been to over the years and each mark’s corresponding quality level. In the future, we may even implement our own internal benchmark datasheets, as you might find in Florida LABINS’ corner records or NGS’ Data Explorer. Nonetheless, having this data for our field crews will help them recover monuments with greater efficiency than ever before.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

On the BIM side, SurvTech is actively engaged in design work for natural gas facilities by combining existing 2D records into 3D environments and integrating proposed equipment. Where older 2D records revealed gaps or missing information, we were able to identify exactly what additional photos or field data were required.

If this type of issue were to occur on a larger scale, we would deploy laser scanning or drone technology to capture missing details and eliminate occlusions.

We are excited about what these expanded GIS and BIM services mean for both our internal workflows and the value we deliver to our clients.

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