Merrick & Company Kicks-off LiDAR and Photogrammetric Mapping Project
Monday January 28th 2008
Filed Under Merrick & Company
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 28, 2008
Press Contact:
Gary Outlaw, GISP, Vice President - Business Development,
GeoSpatial Solutions
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Merrick & Company Kicks-off LiDAR and Photogrammetric Mapping Project
Henrico County, Virginia, USA
Aurora, CO USA – Merrick & Company, a world leader in LiDAR,
digital ortho imaging, photogrammetry, and geospatial solutions began
a $580,000 contract with Henrico County, Virginia this week. This
project is an update to geospatial data compilation contracts
performed by Merrick in 1998 and 2003 and includes LiDAR data
collection for the first time. The County will take final delivery
in October 2008 of digital aerial photography, planimetric features,
breaklines, a DTM, and 2-foot contours generated for the entire
County using the new LiDAR data.
Merrick won this contract in a qualifications based competition. According
to Alfredo Frauenfelder, Geographic Information Systems Coordinator
for Henrico County, “Merrick proposed simultaneous LiDAR and digital
orthophotography collection using multiple sensors on a single aircraft.
This approach offers significant flight mission cost savings in
comparison to performing two separate flights.”
Gary Outlaw, explains, “Merrick is able to provide the County with more
data at a higher quality for less cost when compared to traditional
approaches for this project.”
Henrico County is part of the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area
and is experiencing increased urbanization and suburban growth.
New housing, retail space, offices, and government services required
to support the growing population are changing the landscape and
driving the need for new and updated geospatial data. County
departments such as planning, finance, public works, and utilities
access and maintain their respective data on an enterprise GIS server
administered by the Henrico County GIS Office.
Visit Henrico County on the web at www.co.henrico.va.us.
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About Merrick & Company
Founded in Denver in 1955, Merrick & Company is a world-leading geospatial
solutions, surveying, multidisciplinary engineering, architectural, and
construction management firm. The employee-owned company provides these
services to municipal, state, federal, and private-sector clients. With
approximately 400 employees, Merrick has offices in Aurora and Colorado
Springs, CO; Los Alamos and Albuquerque, NM; Atlanta, GA, Ottawa, Canada;
Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico; Bogota, Colombia.