Telecom/Utilities

Imagery is the foundation for a multitude of mapping activities that help build, maintain and protect assets and, as importantly, keep surrounding citizens and environments safe and secure.

Our imagery integrates easily into GIS to enhance understanding of the demographic changes and location based information required to insure that current capacity matches to the growth or decline of a service region. High-resolution satellite imagery helps planners create up to date maps with city boundaries, roads, urban streets, population and other attributes that can help identify planning goals.

Monitoring and protecting infrastructure assets and the populations near them is an around-the-clock job. Telecommunication and utilities companies can better protect their investments with accurate base maps of ground assets. Earth imagery from DigitalGlobe’s online library allows technicians to view and analyze many different locations directly from their desktops, which replaces expensive and time consuming site visits up to 50 percent. It also guides them to the correct location when maps are out of date or the area involves a remote, hard to access region.

Telecommunication professionals need imagery early in the design process to engineer and construct new facilities and to visualize the impact of new construction on the landscape and surrounding community. It is also used to design site access which lessens construction costs based upon elevations, soil erosion and flooding potential. Why build a cell tower upon sub optimal land when imagery can mitigate millions of dollars in repairs and maintenance?

The ever-increasing regulations and required permits for operating within the utility industry make imagery an essential tool for completing the compliance and approval process or managing land ownership rights. Our imagery provides valuable visual insights for accomplishing tasks like assessing proper buffering around power lines, placing roadside equipment boxes for least visual impact and determining placement of sewer lines consistent with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. In addition, imagery accurately documents aspects of projects, helping permit granting agencies return quick decisions. Earth imagery has also served as a record of accuracy in lawsuit disputes.