Using GIS to Manage Environmental Resources

GIS helps gain a better understanding of environmental processes and the influence people can have on natural resources and the environment. GIS generates information that lead to better decisions to assist in minimizing environmental impact and help safeguard wildlife habitat by balancing peoples activity with the needs of the environment.

GIS solutions Inc. has worked on many projects related to the mitigation of environmental impact and natural resource assessment in the following areas:

  • Utility Transmission
  • Forestry Stewardship and Management
  • Fisheries and Oceans Resources and Regulation
  • Sensitive Ecosystems and Terrain
  • Wildlife Habitat

EMP Mapping

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Elements Network hired GIS Solutions Inc. to complete the Environmental Management Plan mapping requirements for the FortisBC Okanagan Transmission Reinforcement Project. This entailed the mapping of transmission infrastructure from detailed hardcopy and digital plans and the data acquisition and mapping of wildlife and other significant geographical features along the route comprising over 100 maps at various scales. Elements continues to use GIS Solutions Inc. for all their mapping needs.