Merrick & Company Awarded Contract Regional Independent Corpor

Tuesday June 24th 2008
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 24, 2008

Press Contact:

Gary Outlaw, GISP, Vice President - Business Development,

GeoSpatial Solutions

Tel.:  (Cell) 303-520-4719; (Office) 800-544-1714, ext. 3901

E-mail:  gary.outlaw@merrick.com

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Merrick & Company Awarded Contract

Regional Independent Corporation

Bogota, Colombia

Aurora, CO USA – Merrick & Company, a world leader in LiDAR,

digital ortho imaging, photogrammetry, and geospatial solutions

was awarded a contract to provide the Regional Independent

Corporation (Corporación Autónoma Regional (CAR)) with LiDAR,

digital color orthophotography, a DEM, and a DTM for a 600-meter

corridor along 200-kilometers of the Bogotá River.  In addition,

Atlas Engineering (Atlas Ingenieria LTDA) (Bogotá, Colombia),

Merrick’s local partner, is providing flight operations and

ground control support. Atlas will also provide a bathymetric

survey of the riverbed for the entire project corridor. Awarded

in February 2008, final delivery of data products

is expected in February 2009.

CAR controls the water resources in the State (Departamento)

of Cundinamarca, which includes the country’s capital, Bogotá.

The project section of the Bogotá River is densely populated along

its levees.  The new data will be used for hydrology studies,

erosion analysis, potential levee leak identification, and water

quality and usage research.  For the first time, CAR, who has been

using conventional photogrammetry products, will use LiDAR and

digital geospatial for some of their Bogotá River programs.

Geospatial professionals will use Merrick’s MARS® software to

create derivative data products such as 1-metercontours and

streambed profiles which will be used as input for analyses.

Visit CAR on the Web at  www.car.gov.co.

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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 450 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.