Company Overview

Terrapoint Canada provides innovative services and three dimensional digital surface mapping products utilizing proprietary airborne and ground based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology.

Our primary markets include Oil and Gas, Regional Flood Mapping, Transportation, Land Development, Power lines and Mining industries. Our products include georeferenced digital orthomaps, digital elevation models, and a range of other related value-added digital map products. All mapping products are readily integrated into a clients GIS or CAD utility.

The Terrapoint companies market their respective technologies and operational resources are shared. Key factors in our success include innovative use of our technology globally and a capacity of systems and personnel to enable fast, cost effective and flexible response to customer requirements. We continue to enhance our existing technology and invest in the development of new products to ensure a successful and growth-driven future.

Terrapoint USA, headquartered in Houston, Texas was formally created in June 1998 when Transamerica Corporation acquired exclusive rights for the use of NASA mapping technology. The key technology combined lasers, a global positioning system and an inertial measurement unit for mounting in a fixed wing aircraft to produce accurate three-dimensional digital surface maps and associated data products (high range).

Mosaic Mapping Inc, with offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta, was formally established in 2000. The company integrated off-the-shelf hardware and software technology along with unique processing and analysis tools to engineer complimentary high accuracy ground based and helicopter mounted LiDAR technology (low range).

Mosaic Mapping acquired Terrapoint USA in November 2003. Both companies were acquired by Pulse Data Inc in May 2004 and renamed under a common Terrapoint brand. Pulse Data Inc is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta and is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PSD.

Terrapoint LiDAR Technology:

Terrapoint builds its own LiDAR systems, and currently owns and operates four (4) high range fixed winged LiDAR systems and three (3) low range helicopter systems. One critical advantage of this strategy is that it allows the firm to be in complete control of its operations, maintenance, support and back-up systems.

The experienced engineering staff has been able to optimize its proprietary sensor performance for diverse applications ranging from the frozen north slope of Alaska to the triple canopy rain forest of Congo, Africa.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Terrapoint Canada Inc.

Number of Employees: 29

Contacts

Services

• Airborne Laser Mapping
• Geodetic/Control Surveying
• Laser Terrain Mapping

  Laser terrain mapping is a fast and effective method of obtaining 3-dimensional data for the creation of a DTM (digital terrain model). Some applications include pipeline corridor mapping, storm damage and flood assessment, rural and topographic surveys, forest fire analysis, erosion analysis, inventory management and analysis of alluvial deposits. DTM can be integrated into orthophotos or imported into almost any GIS (Geographic Information System) software for further viewing and analysis.

• Lidar

  Airborne Laser is used to obtain DEM (Digital Elevation Model) of ground, hydrowires, structures or vegetation.

• Training In Geomatics

  Training in the practical applications of GPS to: Control surveys and Geodesy, Airborne sensor positioning, Data collection for GIS inventory databases.

Products

• Flykin Suite

NAICS Categories

• 541360 Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services
• 541370 Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services

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