Geospatial Solutions

Geospatial Solutions can be defined as the various services that creates and manages various softwares related to spatial techniques like GIS (Geographical Information System), Geospatial Information Technology, GIS data acquisition and Photogrammetry. This also includes the application of these technologies in various fields, their maintainance and support.

Types of Geospatial Solutions:

Various types of Geospatial Services are there. They are enumerated as follows:

1. Photogrammetry: Geospatial Solution in the field of photogrammetry includes the following services:
   • Aerial photo interpretation, interpretation of infrared and satellite images.
   • Scanning and Digital processing, raster to vector conversion, spatial adjustment and geo-referencing, adding attribute information, generating metadata compliant with national standards.
   • Image Orthorectification
   • Maintaining survey inventory and conducting surveys
   • Aerial photography mapping
   • Planimetric and topographic mapping
2. GIS consulting and implementation: This Geospatial Solution basically implies the various business solutions, which are to be solved by means of Geospatial techniques. This includes the following:
   • Functional requirement analysis
   • Feasibility studies
   • Database Modeling
   • Application Design and Development
   • Management of Projects
   • System Integration Design
   • User Training and Implementation

3. Database Development: Geospatial Solutions also includes the database development. These are enumerated below:
   • Data conversion which involves the creation, maintainance and transforming data into GIS (Geographical Information System) programmes.
   • Unification of the several data and creating a common database.
   • Land development
   • Maintenance and updating the database, providing suggestions and helps.
   • Data Hosting.
4. Information Technology: Geospatial Solution in information technology involves the following:
   • Developing various utility softwares tor Geospatial analysis.
   • System Integration and provides management for all kind of system softwares.
   • To attend the client based works.
   • Web Development for clients.
5. Others: There are other kind of Geospatial Solutions like:
   • Environmental Studies and Projects
   • Habitat Management
   • Urban Planning
   • Environmental Conservation
   • Agricultural Planning
   • Geomorphological Studies
   • Educational Projects
   • Property Management
   • Economic Planning
   • Pollution Monitoring

Various organizations like Property & Management Companies, Insurance Companies, Wireless Telecommunication Industries, Civil Engineering Firms, NGOs, Urban Planning and Management Companies, Land Management Companies, Real Estate Companies opts for these Geospatial Solutions.

Organizations Providing Geospatial Solutions:

Some of the companies or organizations which are famous for providing Geospatial Solutions are:

• Geo-spatial Solutions (GSS)
• Infotech Enterprises Limited
• Avineon Delivers
• PAN
• ROLTA
• GE Electronics
• AERO-METRIC
• McElhanney
• VAR GIS
• MDA Information Products
• RMSI Geospatial Services and Solutions

Among these companies, Geo-spatial Solutions (GSS) and Avineon Delivers are the most important companies that have contributed a large share in the development of Global Geospatial Solution industry. The contribution and project history of these companies are enumerated below:

• • Avineon Delivers: This company is a specialized service provider in the field of IT, Engineering, Geospatial and Program management. The Geospatial solutions provided them are listed below:
    • Data Conversion and Migration
    • Application Development
    • Photogrammetry
    • Environmental Mapping
    • Consulting Servicess

• Geo-spatial Solutions (GSS): This is a full service GIS (Geographical Information System) consultant firm. Its is an authorized Business Partner and Value Added Reseller with ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). The types of solutions provided by them are:
  • geoIrrigation: This powerful Internet based mapping system is developed by GSS and this is quite affordable. They are mainly created for the the Irrigation districts, Canal Companies to provide fast and reliable information.
  • MyWaterPortal
  • dataXchanger for ArcGIS
  • rapidGPS for ArcPad

  Thus, Geospatial Solutions industries and the Solution provider are gaining importance day by day as the need of spatial analysis in various fields are increasing.