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Geomatics

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have changed the way we analyse and represent space. Our decidated geomatics team have backgrounds in the forest industry or related natural resource sectors. We have developed numerous geomatics applications and successfully implemented them into operational environments.

Services

  • Thematic mapping (ecological, geomorphological, exceptional areas, etc.)
  • Orthorectification or aerial photographs
  • Automated vector extraction by image scanning
  • Planimetric correction
  • Digital elevation models (DEM)
  • Cartographic generalisation
  • Data processing
  • Database management
  • Programming
  • Mapping
  • Spatial analysis
  • Research and development
  • Differential monorestitution
  • GPS data collection and processing
  • Geomatic software training
  • Digital 3D photo interpretation
  • Remote sensing image processing and interpretation

For more information, contact Bernard Chauvette, M.Sc.

Recent projects

  • Topographic information extraction from Landsat7 imagery and updating of National Topographic Data Base (NTDB)
  • Produced 1:20000 scale digital maps of forest cover in Quebec
  • Planimetric correction
  • Produced 1:50000 scale digital maps of surface deposits in Quebec
  • Updated and generalised road network data layers for eastern Quebec
  • Generalised 1:20000 scale map set to produce 1:100000 scale map set
  • Interpretation and editing of satellite image maps
  • Automated vector extractionfrom National Topographic Data Base (NTDB) raster topographic maps

In 2003, Groupe OptiVert inc recieved an award from Centre d'information topographique de Ressources naturelles Canada à Sherbrooke (CITS) for excellence in geomatic product quality.