NV5 is a provider of technology, conformity assessment, and consulting solutions for public and private sector clients supporting infrastructure, utility, and building assets and systems.
With more than 100 offices nationwide and abroad, NV5 helps clients plan, design, build, test, certify, and operate projects that improve the communities where we live and work.
NV5’s engineers and technological innovators provide the expertise to plan, design and build the infrastructure that links our communities together. Utilizing cutting-edge design, inspection, and geospatial technologies, we support clients in the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure and building solutions to meet the needs of a growing population.
Helping our clients develop and deliver cost-effective, sustainable projects that improve lives in our communities.
Hyperspectral imaging and analysis represents the pinnacle of remote sensing and provides advanced solutions across a variety of scientific disciplines including forestry, vegetation management, infrastructure assessment, and water quality.
Hyperspectral means “combining information from a large number of contiguous spectral bands of visible, infrared, and short-wave infrared frequencies,” according to its formal definition. It simply means we are capturing an image of the sun’s reflectance within hundreds of narrow bands of energy. This is unlike more traditional cameras, which measure the reflectance within three or four broad bands.
The applications for our clients are also varied and quite important, mainly in the broad areas of:
This includes vegetation classification, vegetative health, invasive species, forestry, wetlands, water quality, bio habitats, agriculture, geology, exploration, and coastal science.
Our traditional digital cameras are classified as multispectral. With these we collect four distinct bands in the red, green, blue, and near-infrared regions. The spectral range is almost identical to the CASI 1500h capabilities, but instead of the four distinct channels found in a traditional multispectral camera, the CASI 1500h can capture up to 288 narrow channels within this same spectral range.
The true value of this technology is unlocked when we fuse hyperspectral data with information from other sources, such as high-resolution lidar point clouds. In vegetation management applications, we often use lidar to group elevation returns to model the structure of each individual tree in the AOI. We then attach the 2D hyperspectral classifications to the 3D tree representation to build tree speciation.
With the recent acquisition of Geodynamics LLC, NV5 Geospatial has built a comprehensive suite of geospatial solutions for geospatial surveys of deep water and near-shore environments to deliver detailed insights for coastal management, flood monitoring, ecosystem protection, research and more.
Discover new features in our latest release.
Sr Product Manager Zach Powers will explain how INSITE Core accesses, organizes and visualizes your spatial data.
Lidar scans make it easy to see the difference between a fire-resistant forest and one where fire has been suppressed.
-Philip Kiefer, Popular Science
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
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NV5 Geospatial releases a new predictive modeling platform for vegetation management that uses existing lidar and historical data to identify the relative level of asset risk from trees by quantifying the potential for causing asset damage.
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
Please tell us a little about yourself by filling out the form below, and we’ll share the document with you, thanks!