Right-of-Way Vegetation Management

With industry spending billions of dollars yearly on vegetation management and unabated vegetation responsible for 30% to 50% of all unplanned outages, it is critically important for utility managers to monitor the condition of right-of-way corridors to safeguard the integrity of their infrastructure and valued assets.

Companies must develop and maintain proactive maintenance programs to ensure compliance with new regulations imposed under the Energy Act of 2005.

GeoDigital's Transmission Corridor Observation & Reporting (TCOR™) program uses the latest technology to gather field data during regularly scheduled inspection flights. High resolution digital imagers and other sensors acquire continuous coverage of the right-of-way, providing updated georeferenced datasets from every flight. Once processed and compared to previous data, our fast automated change detection software highlights areas of concern for more detailed analysis, providing our clients with the most recent dataset to maintain the currency of their in-house GIS.

The GeoDigital TCOR™ Solution offers:

• Multiple camera sensor system acquiring forward oblique, aft oblique and straight 'down-looking' continuous imagery
• Down-looking imagery can be fused seamlessly via proprietary software to form scaleable mosaic strip maps and used to precisely measure and evaluate side encroachments
• High or Low altitude LiDAR data acquisition and 3D modeling
• Identification and location of all changes along the ROWs - automated change detection
• Identification and location of all vegetation issues within the ROWs
• Instant access to any location on any ROW for thorough examination
• A complete digital record of all ROWs for audit purposes

Our Custom Software features:

• Comparative data sets to monitor encroachment or erosion issues over time
• Secured customer-defined entry screen for logging comments, conditions, priorities, classifications
• Reporting tools for either internal or external reporting requirements
• Link capability to standard maintenance management programs
• Applications to generate and track work orders

The GeoDigital Solutions team understands that real needs often exceed allocated budgets, and works to provide our customers with "more bang for the buck" every step of the way. For example, by conducting vegetation surveys simultaneously with normally scheduled visual inspections, GeoDigital's field operations team can maximize the utilization of helicopter services.