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Forestry
 Today’s forestry partners face numerous challenges to maintaining healthy, productive and sustainable forests. Pest infestations, disease, local environmental impacts and even climate change highlight the need for high-accuracy spatial information, optimal planning models, and effective cost management.
By integrating Geographic Information System (GIS) data with rich remotely sensed imagery, PCI Geomatics technologies are designed to put highly-accurate, relevant information in the hands of foresters. To aid in long-term planning for cutting and reforestation, images from aerial and satellite sensors are used for planning an optimal logging process. These images are also used to map pest infestations and environmentally-sensitive areas. They can provide large-scale information about forest stand age, tree species distribution, and estimated timber volume. Even in urban applications, images can help create an inventory of trees in parkland and on city streets.
Soil moisture, evaporation and runoff are measured either directly from imagery or through terrain analysis, helping foresters to predict droughts, flooding, and to monitor water availability. Climate data can be gathered from radar sensors at any time of day, and in any weather condition – they can then be used to track wind, rainfall, water vapour and ozone content in the air. PCI’s technology is also used extensively for the prediction, risk assessment, and monitoring of forest fires by integrating the processing and analysis of images from low- and high-resolution satellite sensors.
PCI Geomatics can help you to address forest resource management challenges by building automated, efficient spatial data workflows, controlling your costs and putting accurate spatial information in your hands.
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Oil & Gas
 With demand at an all-time high, oil and gas companies are challenged to develop more efficient ways to remotely identify hydrocarbon resources. The complexities of planning and monitoring resource extraction activities, along with road and pipeline infrastructure, require best-practice processes using remote technologies.
By allowing the integration of RS data with Geographic Information System (GIS) layers and geophysical information, PCI Geomatics technology helps you make better decisions at all stages of exploration, production, and environmental monitoring. In the search for signs of suitable resource traps, RS reconnaissance is used to narrow down potential hydrocarbon zones and for detailed mapping of suitable areas. Surface rock fractures, drainage patterns and vegetation can indicate areas of strong potential. Through processing and analysis of aerial and satellite image data, explorers can use PCI Geomatics software to identify lineaments marking the potential migration of gas and oil to the surface, and areas where color and geochemical changes of surficial rocks might indicate the presence of hydrocarbons. PCI Geomatics mapping and analysis tools can also be used for managing the environmental impact around drilling sites, monitoring pipelines for possible breaks, and to track the recovery of the local environment once a site has finished production.
PCI Geomatics can assist you in building automated, efficient workflows to manage your spatial data processing – at all stages of oil and gas resource management – helping you overcome challenges unique to your business.
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Geology & Mining
 With increasing pressure to find more cost effective and efficient exploration strategies, explore in remote and politically unstable areas around the world, and provide investors with validated evidence of assets, RS tools are indispensable for exploration geologists. Further, satellite and aerial images are central to the mapping of vegetation, hydrology, and soils for environmental monitoring and reclamation of mining sites.
With a rich suite of tools for image correction, processing, analysis, data management, and integration with Geographic Information System (GIS) and mapping suites, PCI Geomatics supports the complex needs of geologists and mineral exploration companies. Radar and optical images can be analyzed to predict subsurface geology by identifying topographic surface features. After narrowing the field through remote study, classified images are used to build detailed, accurate base maps, allowing geologists to plan drill access into the target area and to map zones of obvious surface alteration and brecciation. Because hyperspectral images are able to resolve spectral features unique to specific minerals, hyperspectral RS can assist greatly with the identification and mapping of minerals. As a result, compared with traditional surveying techniques, a hyperspectral survey can reduce costs by up to 90%. PCI Geomatics’ hyperspectral imaging tools allow users to visualize and process these data for fast, accurate lithologic and geophysical mapping.
Whether through detailed examination of spectral information or rapid, automated processing of massive geological datasets, PCI Geomatics can assist you to build accurate and cost-effective exploration models.
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Agriculture
 Today’s commodity prices, energy prices, regulatory requirements, and the bottom line all put pressure on agricultural producers to make optimal decisions about applying inputs, harvesting outputs, forecasting crop yields, and monitoring every aspect of their business.
Along with Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, RS is a cornerstone of modern agriculture, enabling highly profitable precision agriculture ventures and global-scale monitoring of yields and acreages. Through PCI technology, satellite and aerial images from all parts of the spectrum can identify nutrient deficiencies, diseases, water deficiency or surplus, weed infestations, insect damage, hail damage, wind damage, herbicide damage, and plant populations. Images can also be used as base maps for monitoring the application of fertilizers and pesticides, allowing farmers to treat affected areas strategically and reduce costs.
PCI Geomatics’ imaging technologies can handle high resolution, multispectral, hyperspectral, and radar imagery in near-real time for a variety of agricultural applications, including: soil classification, salinity mapping, nitrogen estimation, weed classification, insect damage mapping, water stress mapping, evapotranspiration estimation, vegetation development monitoring, and yield/growth modeling.
Whether for research, forecasting, input management, or logistics, PCI Geomatics’ automated technologies can deliver the accurate agricultural information you need to keep your business growing.
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AGCN – Agriculture GeoCapacity Network |
 In agriculture, timely access to critical geospatial information for better governance is a top priority in most developing countries; PCI Geomatics provides geospatial solutions geared to this sector.
The Agriculture GeoCapacity Network (AGCN) is a project initiative between Canada and the state of Punjab, India to help facilitate the Indian government and stakeholders in the agriculture sector to improve their decision making processes with advanced image-centric enterprise technology.
PCI Geomatics’ solution is based on automated geospatial data processing workflows leveraging a central data repository, and providing multiple channels for geospatial information to be delivered.
The AGCN illustrates how information on crop yields and trend analysis can automatically be generated and delivered to government officials and the general public via a web browser. It can take complex, satellite and geospatial data, and transform it into easily interpreted, deliverable information pertaining to crop, soil, irrigation, pollution and socio-economic factors to assist in agricultural productivity.
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