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MAPPING AND SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS (GPS/GIS)

Using ArcGIS, ArcPad and a professional grade GPS unit with real-time correction and sub-metre accuracy, Glenside utilizes and manipulates existing digital themes (merging and editing themes such as adding a new fish habitat polygon etc.) and/or produces custom overlay maps to address specific environmental issues (e.g. delineating the adjacent lands of a provincially significant wetland).

• Design and production of quality maps tailored to the specifications of the client
• Field collected GPS data in point, polyline and polygon shape file format with real-time correction and sub-metre accuracy.
• Habitat sampling and delineation
• Feature identification
• Trail mapping
• Importation/exportation of shape files between ArcPad/GPS and desktop ArcGIS.
• Management of attributes via seamless integration with Microsoft Access databases
• Rectification and geometric transformation of raster datasets (e.g. aerial photographs, satelliteimagery)
• Geospatial analysis

• Species habitat modelling
• Remote ecosite classification via aerial photography interpretation
• Nearest point analysis
• Slope and aspect analysis using Digital Elevation Models
• OMNR Licensed Base Data User with on-site access to Land Information Ontario base data.