North West Geomatics has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hexagon, a leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies. North West provides high-quality aerial mapping and related spatial data services to engineering and mapping firms, environmental consulting organisations and government agencies. In addition to housing the single largest library of high-resolution imagery and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data in Canada, North West has been a pioneer in developing various techniques to maximise efficiency and productivity in photo acquisition and subsequent photogrammetric tasks.

Valtus – North West’s content database – enables the seamless integration of any customer’s privately owned content through a hosting service. By dedicating a significant portion of resources to continuing research and development, “North West remains at the forefront in the aerial photography industry,” Hexagon states.

“North West brings valuable expertise in selling data content as a service (CaaS) through its Valtus database, which enables crowdsourcing of data content. Together with advances in sensor capabilities and the acquisitions of AHAB, Aibotix, Geosoft and Tridicon, North West will be an instrumental part in Hexagon’s ambitions within this field”, said Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén.

North West Geomatics’ turnover for 2013 amounted to some EUR10 million.