Geospatial Corporation is the only U.S. Company currently ready to assist industry, municipalities and other government entities in systematically mapping and ultimately rehabilitating underground piping systems. Once these pipelines are accurately located, you can begin to undertake the difficult task of developing a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate aging infrastructure before major breaks occur, saving citizens and municipalities money and limiting inconvenience.

Fantastic three-dimensional GIS (Geographic Information System) software solutions exist to help pipeline operators organize the huge amounts of data required to manage their pipeline systems. Companies like Google Earth (www.earth.google.com), ESRI (www.esri.com), Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com), Bentley Systems, Inc. (www.bentley.com), Intergraph Corp. (www.intergraph.com), MapInfo Corporation(www.mapinfo.com) and GE Smallworld, a division of General Electric Infrastructure Group(www.gepower.com) offer these GIS software solutions.

Although it is simple to gather the data to map above-ground structures such as buildings and roads and telephone poles and fire hydrants, it has been almost impossible to accurately map underground pipelines…until now.

Utilizing Geospatial Corporation’s proprietary Smart Probe™ technology that allows the insertion of a measurement probe into a pipeline which accurately and economically creates a three-dimensional map of the centerline of the pipeline, accurate maps of all types of underground pipes can be produced. At the end of each run through the pipeline, the Smart Probe TM is simply plugged into a laptop and our proprietary software extracts the data and integrates that data into any of the GIS software.

Like we are all used to seeing on CNN and Google Earth, a user can start with a view of the earth on a laptop, zoom in to the view of a particular street intersection and then simply zoom in further under the street viewing a detailed 3D layout of the water, sewer, telecom, gas or transmission piping systems. With this information engineers can now develop reasonable plans to properly rehabilitate the worst sections of these pipelines in the most economical and efficient manner – before the pipelines actually break.

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Geospatial Corporation

CONTACT:
Linda Ward, Executive Vice President, Business Development - Geospatial Corporation

+1 (412) 298-8195 Web site: (www.geospatialcorporation.com)