» GIS Solutions for Natural Resources



» Agriculture & Forestry

G&L can help you bring GIS to elevate crop management to a new level. No longer is it necessary to maintain separate software programs to handle normal crop record keeping tasks and high-density precision agricultural data. G&L can help customize a solution to integrate different sources of information to one.

GIS lets you define the kind of information you want to record about your crop production practices and puts you in control of the crop record keeping process. You define the roles of products, setup unlimited pricing tables and generate maps themed by product. You can track the cost of several crops belonging to one commodity class and the flow of products from one container to the next for a level of traceability.

At harvest time, G&L can build you solution to provide a section to enter your settlements and marketing information. You may split items to multiple grain sale transactions and define an unlimited number of discount tables related geographically to your crops.

The use of remote sensing for data gathering allied with GIS permit the discrimination of different forest types as well as the multi-temporal appraisal of land cover/land use change and of the impacts of that change. Traditional forest inventory data can be combined with GPS technology to facilitate the development of accurate and up-to-date databases. Integration of image derived information, digital databases and other data, especially that of climate, soils and terrain (DTMs), permit sophisticated modelling of potentials and constraints for different areas under different forest management options. For example, it would be possible to assess the suitability of currently degraded land to be returned to forest, industrial plantation or alternative management regime on the basis of slope, altitude, soil, rainfall and accessibility.

» Archaeology

Remote sensing has changed the way we look at our world. We started looking at ourselves through an external perspective. This perspective has allowed us to identify archaeological sites from space.

Cultural resource management workers in the private and public sector have been using GIS techniques in an attempt to identify locations with high potential for archaeological material, initially with the intent of exempting low-potential areas from further investigation. Today, the results of predictive, or more accurately, correlational, models indicate areas that should be more intensively surveyed before development takes place because of the high potential for fragile archaeological resources. A contentious assumption is made that prehistoric peoples were much more sensitive to their environment while selecting settlement locations than more complex societies that have the technology to lessen environmental constraints.

GIS lets modelers set a number of environmental criteria that, if met, indicate a higher probability of finding archaeological remains. GIS map layers of significant variables are integrated as part of the GIS archaeological model such as slope, aspect, soil type, soil drainage, and distance to water. Once thresholds have been quantitatively determined, an overlay GIS analysis is conducted. The output is a map indicating areas that have varying degrees of attractiveness for prehistoric occupation. This is the power that modern-day technology can be used to identify historical and pre-historical sites. Within few seconds, you may be able to discover many millennia old sites.

» Environmental Sciences

With a customized GIS solution environmental scientists are able to track, monitor, analyze, and research on environmental trends. GIS data and representations can be useful in

- Conducting environmental impact assessments. This includes reviewing impact of chemical, biological, or physical pollutants and predicting potential high level risks.
- Conducting long and short term monitoring of high risk activities that affect the ecology, environment or the health and safety of individuals.
- Clearly demonstrating potential risks and hazards to concerned parties and authorities.

Whether for safety, research, or regulatory concerns G&L can assist in setting up an effective GIS model for the environmental sciences.

» Marine & Coastal Management

G&L can help your industry by integrating marine and coastal data with GIS. GIS can be designed for shoreline management applications. It is a powerful tool for the management of all relevant data monitoring of the morphological evolution in the coastal zone, for instance in connection with evaluation of the impact from nourishment schemes, harbours and coastal protection works.

Integrating GIS to your coastal engineering system can bring abundant GIS data for analysis such as coastline position, coastal profile, land use data, waves, currents, water levels, winds, sediment properties, and maps into one full system.

All data can be stored with a complete history for the analysis of coastline development and calculation of volume changes both performed in a user-specified area. By using the powerful GIS facilities measured or simulated data can be compared directly to both historical data and data from other sources like aerial photographs or maps. Based on profile measurements various methods of calculation of volume changes may be applied to the data, including the generation of complete 2D & 3D contour maps of the area.

»Mining & Earth Sciences

Mineral exploration is one of the important factors in the modern age. Earth resources are necessary in various industries. It is the fact that earth resources were used for your ability to read this information either on your screen or in paper. GIS has several applications in geology, geophysics, geomorphology, geochemistry, and others. Analysis of mineral deposits has jumped with the use of hyperspectral imagery from remote sensing integrated with GIS.

GIS can help in exploring, operating, and managing mines. G&L will provide you with the necessary consultancy and solution for allowing your industry to utilize GIS capabilities to enhance your efficiency.

» Petroleum

Whether you are building an inventory for the petroleum infrastructure that includes pipelines and pumping stations, building an oil rig or refinery, exploring for oil, or planning your oil logistics, GIS is definitely the tool for you. Here at G&L we will consider every detail of your industry and inspect the GIS requirements to provide you with a complete GIS solution suitable for managing and operating your oil industry.