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Our staff has nearly 20 years experience throughout the Rocky Mountains creating and supporting useful, accurate, cost effective and more importantly: highly functional GIS databases. We have experience working at city, county and Federal government levels and working in private industry as contractors for those same levels of government. Should you need advice on any part of your GIS system, we can provide you with opinions based on our experience on both sides of the issue.

We are very happy to now be able to supply cutting edge, end to end ALL DIGITAL ortho imagery from one of our partners! Check out the image below:

Click above for the full image (a warning though, it's a big file but looks great!)

This 6" resolution imagery would be GREAT for all your GIS and planning needs!! You can easily make out manhole covers, back of curb or sidewalk right-of-way lines, fences, etc.

Compare the following images of a standard USGS DOQQ versus new, all digital, 6" resolution orthophotography (rollover the image):

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One of the advantages to this new imagery technology is the turnaround time for the job. A large all digital orthophoto job can be turned around sometimes in 30 days instead of the usual 6+ months for a conventional film product. Feel free to give us a call or email with any questions about this great new technology.

We are primarily a GIS company and proud to employ new technology but here are our overall strengths and how we can best help you:

We have done large amounts of data conversion from digitizing maps created in the early 1900's to using state-of-the-art gps technology to create accurate road centerline coverages for E-911 addressing. Our experience has been used to create multiple data layers for large indian reservations, small cities and very large western counties. Layers that have included but are certainly not limited to county parcel mapping, political jurisdictions, road networks, water/wastewater and FEMA floodplain mapping.

Sandia GIS specializes in and has used the industry standard ESRI gis software for more than 10 years and we are experts with ArcInfo, ArcGIS and ArcView 3x. Our experience includes being well versed in Trimble mapping grade gps receivers and PathFinder Office. Trimble receivers are exceptional values when non-survey accuracy is needed for asset collection or centerline type mapping.

When creating an accurate gis database, one of the first steps is to have high resolution aerial photography flown of the area being mapped. Sandia GIS has subcontractors that specialize in producing extremely high quality digital orthophotography. Should you decide to take this step we can arrange for the photography to be flown at the optimum time of the year for leaf cover, your budget and the overall workflow. An alternative that is nearly, but not quite as accurate, is satellite imagery such as that supplied by Digital Globe. Color imagery makes for an excellent backdrop, especially for presentations and some feature extraction. Another source of imagery are USGS DOQQ's which are black & white, 1 meter resolution files and can be downloaded for FREE (free is good!). If your source imagery doesn't have to be right up to the minute, DOQQ's are a great way to go. Here is an excellent source of free imagery and vector data: http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/.

We can also supply onsite training for any of the technologies we use. We have an ESRI certified trainer on staff and we can also arrange for training with Trimble hardware and software.

In addition to using their products, we can also install and configure most ESRI products. Our staff also includes outstanding network and system administrator personnel who can not only install your software but can test, configure and if necessary, upgrade your existing office computers and network. We can also install complete networks, firewalls, secure VPN's and most other pc hardware or software.

Our goal is for you to use your GIS data in the most beneficial and efficient means possible.