LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc.
Edmonton, AB
Company Overview
LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc. evolved from a non incorporated entity of the same name that began doing business in 1994. LandMapper's products and services are based on the more than 30 years of experience of its principal, Dr. R. A. (Bob) MacMillan. This experience includes more than 10 years as a field soil surveyor, almost 20 years as a practitioner and innovator in geographic information systems and geospatial analysis and more than 10 years of experience as an environmental modeller, specializing in analysis of digital elevation data for natural resource ane environmental applications. Dr. MacMillan has played a leading role in developing and commercializing modeling applications that make use of analysis of digital elevation data to create maps and models of natural environments, including landforms, soils, ecological and hydrological spatial entities.
Company Information
Physical Address
7415-118A St. N. W.
Edmonton, AB T6G 1V4
CA
Mailing Address
7415-118A St. N. W.
Edmonton, AB T6G 1V4
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc.
Number of Employees: 1
CA
Most of LandMapper's commercial work is based on use and application of the LandMapR toolkit of computer programs and procedures. The LandMapR toolkit is one of a very limited number of integrated computer-based approaches currently being used for commercial, operational scale automated predictive mapping of soils, landforms and ecological entities in Canada or elsewhere. The LandMapR toolkit is being used to research new, improved and much lower-cost approaches for producing maps of soils, landforms and ecological entities at several locations in Canada, the UK, the USA and Australia. The LandMapR toolkit is demonstrating that it is possible to create maps of ecological entities, soils or landforms at very low costs (pennies per hectare) and at maximum attainable accuracies for very large areas of millions of hectares. In the emerging field of automated predictive mapping, the LandMapR tolkit stands out as one of the few applications to have made the transition from research vehicle to a tool for fully operational commmercial-scale application.
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Services
- Landmapper
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Weppmapr
WeppMapR is a component of the LandMapR computer toolkit that is used to automatically extract hydrological flow patterns and hydrological topology from gridded digital elevation models (DEMs). WeppMapR was originally created to automatically extract the hydrological spatial entities required by the WEPP water erosion prediction model. The output from the program can be generalized to automatically recognize hydrological spatial entities that are not specific to the WEPP model. Basicallly, WeppMapR automatically computes flow networks and identifies simulated stream channels which are then partitioned into defined segments of stream channels. The program computes the upland watershed that contributes flow into each defined segment of each simulated stream channel and identifies whether the upland area flows into the channel segment from the left, right or top of the channel. This information on hydrolgical flow topology is stored on database tables and can be easily manipulated to create data files for use in hydrological simulation models. The WeppMapR program is being generalized to provide capabilities for automatically extracting a wide variety of hydrological spatial entities including those required by the ArcGIS Hydro spatial data model, TOPMODEL, SWAT and other hydrological models in addition to WEPP. LandMapper Envirommental Solutions does not sell or support the WeppMapR program but only uses it as an in-house resource for providing custom services in hydrological mapping and modeling.
NAICS Categories
Additional Information
541370
AA00-Agriculture, AH00-Environmental Protection, AP00-Natural Resources, B002-Animal and Fisheries Studies, B004-Natural Resource Studies, B009-Other Natural Sciences Studies, B102-Soil Studies, B103-Water Quality Studies, B109-Other Environmental Studies, E000-Environmental Services, F000-Natural Resources Services
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