Better Inventory, Inspect and Maintain Transportation Infrastructure

Transportation Management and Planning Solutions

Managing transportation networks, whether road, rail, or aviation, is a high-risk proposition. Keeping travelers safe, as well as your crew, is of the upmost importance. But the challenges of managing a network aren’t limited to safety, they also include controlling costs, ensuring reliability, and boosting efficiencies. As companies look for ways to improve on all aspects of transportation infrastructure planning and management, remote sensing technology such as satellite, UAS, and LiDAR data combined with big data analytics is being looked at to improve safety, reduce expenses, and make better decisions.

NV5 Geospatial delivers advanced analysis solutions that utilize geospatial imagery and data to help better manage and plan transportation networks and infrastructure. Whether it’s inspecting the condition of rail ties, identifying missing attachments on bridges, or monitoring road weather conditions, we deliver technology that helps you manage data, discover answers, and make more effective decisions. For more than 30 years, we have has been exclusively focused on leveraging remotely sensed data to solve some of the most challenging problems in the industry. Today, NV5 is firmly established as the industry leader in image science, and with the ever-increasing availability of geospatial data, transportation agencies rely on us for solutions that deliver critical network insights.

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NV5 provides transportation management and planning solutions that range from data collection, to data storage and management, to processing and analyzing data, to delivering those critical insights to the right people, at the right time, in the right place. We can deliver an end-to-end geospatial software solution or integrate any of these offerings into an existing system.

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RAILWAY SOLUTIONS

Using traditional remote sensing techniques, we can provide additional insights along the rail corridor or the rail yards including vegetation encroachment, post disaster management (flood extent, subsidence mapping, rail track inspection), and engineering focused applications (water runoff, new construction near track corridor with impervious surfaces).

Rail Asset Management

Using terrestrial and UAS imagery collected over a period of time, NV5’s rail specific analytics can identify relevant changes that augment the manual inspection of rail lines. This change detection analysis identifies broken ties, fouled ballasts, missing fasteners, and more. When deep learning technology is applied to terrestrial based LiDAR, assets along the rail corridor can be extracted, and using aerial LiDAR transportation data, this capability can extract the rail lines themselves. When SAR data is analyzed, subsidence can be monitored along rail corridors to enable rail operations to correct issues before they become costly problems.

Railroad Vegetation Encroachment

Using remotely sensed data, NV5’s rail solution supports a vegetation management workflow by identifying dead or dying vegetation along rail corridors that could become hazardous and fall onto rail lines. Output from this analysis provides prioritized areas for crews to remediate.

Post-event Railway Damage Assessment

Leveraging the big data archive available in Amplify™, change detection analytics can be executed to detect anomalies between a baseline and data collected immediately after an event, whether that is a storm or accident. This automated approach to post-event damage identification allows an organization to better position repair crews to restore service faster.

This same change detection capability can be utilized for any time period, providing proactive insights on changes occurring on the network. This comparative data can be used for the purpose of predictive analytics.

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ROADWAY SOLUTIONS

Remotely sensed imagery and geospatial data are being used to augment ground-based inspection techniques for transportation infrastructure, management, and planning. By delivering high-resolution visual information about the condition of infrastructure, imagery can improve the safety of inspections, provide the ability to prioritize repairs, and reduce overall management costs.

ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

DOTs are using the scientifically proven geospatial analytics in ENVI® image analysis software to extract information from geospatial imagery and LiDAR data to plan and design transportation infrastructure, as well as to monitor and maintain roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure the safe movement of people and goods.

Ground Weather Analytics

Helios® weather analytics for safety & mobility provide fast and accurate local ground weather analytics and intelligence to assist organizations with real-time decision making. As a real-time ground “weather-observer” which analyzes content from thousands of existing public and private video cameras, Helios provides immediate confirmation of ground weather condition changes at a detailed local level such as Helios road wetness, snow and ice analytics. Helios® delivers “ground-truth” weather conditions and its impacts on critical infrastructure conditions state using machine learning analytics to extract relevant data from existing terrestrial CCTV camera networks.

Road Asset Management

Combine our ENVI deep learning technology with terrestrial LiDAR or aerial imagery to help identify, tag, and locate assets on bridges, roads, and tunnels. Manage these assets using Amplify, our advanced data and asset management software.

Aviation

AVIATION SOLUTIONS

Whether you're flying a drone, an airplane, or looking to accurately map airports or train pilots to fly, NV5 Geospatial has aviation software and technology to meet your needs.

Weather Analytics

Helios® real-time ground weather analytics can be used to conduct aviation visibility analysis for flight service information and delivered to pilots. Furthermore, Helios® analytics can be used to conduct wind direction and speed analysis by monitoring and detecting movement change of airfield windsocks.

We Transform Transportation Management into a Science

As the image science experts, we have the know-how to take your transportation management to the next level. Let’s get started today!