Merrick Provides Services on Over 1,000 Miles of Transmission Line

Merrick & Company’s (www.merrick.com)  geospatial solutions group is currently working with HDR Engineering, Inc (HDR) and is serving the Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration group. In conjunction with HDR, Merrick is providing LiDAR surveying and engineering services in the Upper Great Plains Region for conductor rating and clearance assessments. Merrick surveyed lines span 1,116 miles crossing North and South Dakota. Merrick is utilizing its helicopter sensor platform for data collection and providing PLS-CADD ready classified LiDAR data, color ortho imagery, and high resolution color forward and aft oblique structure imagery.

Merrick & Company, an $125 million geospatial, engineering, architecture, design-build, and surveying firm, serves domestic and international clients by providing geospatial technologies, products, and services for the sustainable infrastructure, energy,  and national security markets.  Merrick maintains ten offices in the U.S. as well as two offices in Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

More information about Merrick’s GeoSpatial Solutions business unit is located at Merrick GeoSpatial Solutions.

Merrick’s Sergio Aguayo Receives the First LiDAR Art Award

Merrick & Company’s (www.merrick.com) Sergio Aguayo, GISP, Senior Photogrammetrist, recently won first place in the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) “LiDAR as Art” contest, announced by GeoDigital International. The awards program, just recently established, held its first competition at the end of 2011. Contestants were required to take airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) images and create art from that data.
Aguayo’s submittal entitled “Lighting up the Night” consists of five images captured from a testing site in the state of Utah.  After reviewing the images, Aguayo’s inspiration came from imagining driving on this road under a dramatic night sky, with a light source illuminating his way home. He added birds as a nice touch to creating depth and reality to the image. In order to keep the visual impact of the image, Aguayo kept the LiDAR points visible.
Aguayo was awarded an iPad from GeoDigital International as well as $1,000 to donate to a charity of his choice. He chose to contribute to the Overland High School soccer program, located in Aurora, Colorado.  In addition, Aguayo’s work was showcased at the ILMF 2012 conference and will be highlighted in promotional materials for the 2013 ILMF conference.
Having been with Merrick more than 10 years, Aguayo is a key person in supporting the photogrammetric and LiDAR discipline.  His responsibility includes the compilation of maps in different scales, has extensive experience on softcopy photogrammetric work stations, as well as works within many types of mapping software.
Merrick uses the most-advanced LiDAR sensors on the market today. Merrick has embraced this technology since 1997 and successfully provided these highly technical and definitive services to clients for a variety of applications including:

• Contour mapping
• 3-D perspective analysis
• Floodplain mapping
• Vegetation mapping
• Shoreline analysis
• Corridor/route studies
• Slope analysis
• Soil conservation

Merrick & Company is a $125 million engineering, architecture, design-build, surveying, and geospatial solutions firm, serving domestic and international clients in the energy, national security, life sciences, and sustainable infrastructure markets.  The firm is committed to sustainable design and construction practices through its 60+ LEED-accredited professionals and is continually expanding its in-house resources to serve tomorrow’s needs.  The employee-owned company maintains 10 offices in the U.S. as well as offices in Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.