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Experience in the Field

Selected Projects

With over 100 years of customer service, Sewall has significant experience in geospatial data acquisition, landbase development, data conversion, systems implementation, data analysis, software development, and data maintenance. To meet the needs of our clients, we have completed projects throughout the contiguous United States and in Canada, Alaska, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Ireland, Argentina, Belize, and Australia. The following list of recent projects indicates our broad capabilities in-house.

LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Cadastral Data Conversion
Jackson County, Mississippi
Conversion of over 90,000 parcels in 731-square-mile area to ArcInfo utilizing existing orthophotography as a landbase.

Cadastral Data Conversion
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Conversion of approximately 240,000 parcels to ArcInfo format
, using manual recompilation. Extensive ArcInfo application development.

Inspection Survey for Bridge Modernization
Parsons Transportation Group, Inc., New York, New York
Three-dimensional inspection survey of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, Verona and Prospect, Maine, utilizing GPS control and digital close-range photogrammetry.

Landbase Mapping and Orthophotography
Town of Northborough, Massachusetts
Acquisition of color aerial photography and survey control and production of orthophotography for municipal GIS. Deed research and compilation of property lines on the planimetric landbase.

Terrain Modeling and Dredging Analysis with ArcGIS
Army Corps of Engineers, Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts
Migration of landbase data, digital orthophotography, and infrastructure mapping from ESRI ArcView to ArcGIS Desktop and geodatabase, plus custom development of dredging and volumetric analysis software tools.

Aerial Photography for DOT Highway Projects
New York Department of Transportation, Albany, New York
Annual aerial photography and airborne GPS missions to acquire both color and black-and-white photography of various highway projects throughout the State of New York.

Color Infrared Photography for Environmental Management
Rockland County, New York
Acquisition of color infrared aerial photography to identify mosquito-breeding areas in conjunction with a study of the West Nile virus in Rockland County.


Enhanced 911 Data Collection
Maine Office of GIS, Augusta, Maine
GPS collection of road centerline data and point data for structures and driveways, data post-processing, and editing to implement Enhanced 911 systems in 158 towns throughout the State of Maine.

ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AM/FM/GIS Development and Implementation Consulting
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., Bismarck, North Dakota
AM/FM/GIS consulting for the selection, development, and implementation of enterprise
system, from process review and business case development to user software development and training.

Leak Detection Survey Automation
Colonial Gas Company, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Development and implementation of Walking Surveyor Assistant™, a software tool that automates leak detection surveys in the field.

Utility Mapping and ArcIMS Development
Maine Natural Gas, Brunswick, Maine
Ongoing photogrammetric mapping, orthophotography development, facilities data conversion, and systems development. Migration of existing web site to ArcIMS, hosted on Sewall web server.

Utility Mapping
Northeast Utilities Services Company, Waterbury, Connecticut
Ongoing aerial photography, survey control, and photogrammetric mapping project for portions of 40 municipalities in the State of Connecticut.

Data Conversion and GIS Development
PPL Interstate Energy Company, Pottsdown, Pennsylvania
Corridor mapping, digital orthophotography production, and facilities data conversion for GIS integration, utilizing Sewall's AutoCAD-based ASGPipeline™ Data Management Module.

Pipeline Software Implementation
Alliance Pipeline Limited, Calgary, Canada
Requirements analysis and implementation of Sewall pipeline software for automated alignment sheet generation, class location analysis, and MAOP calculation, in a corporate-wide FRAMME AM/FM system.

GIS Data Consulting
Kleinschmidt Associates, Pittsfield, Maine

Mapping and GIS digital data technical assistance for the New York Power Authority St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project Relicensing effort.

NATURAL RESOURCES
GIS Data Conversion
Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, Washington
GIS conversion project on hydrography data for the entire State of Washington.

Maine Ice Storm Coverage
Maine Forest Service, Augusta, Maine
Aerial photography and mapping of 1998 ice storm damage in Maine.

Australian Timberland Appraisal
Hancock Timber Resource Group
Joint venture with international forestry consulting firm Jaakko Pöyry Consulting to appraise timberlands in eastern Australia.

Vegetative Trends Assessment
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Bowdoinham, Maine

Photo interpretation, mapping and land use trends assessment for NWI wetlands and structures for Merrymeeting Bay and surrounding half-mile buffer.

Eelgrass Aerial Photography
Maine Department of Environmental Protection, West Boothbay, Maine
Acquisition of true-color aerial photography along specific locations of the Maine coast for the location of eelgrass beds.

 

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