Keep up to date...

Storm Geomatics surveyors have spent eight weeks surveying for Gatwick Airport Limited. After last winter's flooding at Gatwick Airport North Terminal, the Environment Agency, in partnership with Gatwick Airport Ltd commissioned Storm Geomatics to carry out river channel surveys across 20 watercourses to a length of 63km. The project involved analysing large amounts of historical data, and validating that information with on site observations.

Surveyors at Storm Geomatics spent the majority of June on a challenge to capture critical data on hundreds of Environment Agency assets within the Midlands, Thames and Yorkshire regions. The company's recent boost in capacity has opened doors to bigger projects with tighter deadlines - and this was no exception. Assets were supplied as GIS files by each region which the survey teams uploaded onto their Leica controllers.

A major energy company commissioned Storm Geomatics to measure the flow rates through a number of lock gates on The Manchester Ship Canal. The measurements are to be used to calculate the leakage through the gates and contribute towards an energy calculation for the installation of a new water turbine. Storm Geomatics combined forces with personnel from the new Storm Geomarine team to bring logistics, acoustic, positioning and analysis skills together to solve the problem. Site conditions were difficult, but good planning, experienced staff and a good understanding of the project outcomes provided the client with exactly the data they needed.

PhotoMapp is a "must have" app for the iPhone. It creates working documents of your experiences with the minimum of effort. The vision with PhotoMapp is that we can use this mobile phone app to help us with our work by organising maps, images and notes all in one place to create an informative document of our subject. Having released PhotoMapp it appears that it is being used for many other applications as people want to share their location and thoughts as well as their pictures. Wath this space on PhotoMapp - it is being developed further to appeal to the global market.