Infrastructure Cook Islands Selects Woolpert to Collect Topo-Bathy Lidar Data and Imagery
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RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
--The mapping data and products will assist ICI in advancing sustainable
infrastructure, improving disaster and climate resilience, and updating
nautical charts.
Woolpert (
) has been contracted by Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI (
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3587738-1&h=1091509566&u=https%3A%2F%2Fici.gov.ck%2F&a=ICI
)) to collect topographic and bathymetric lidar data and aerial imagery across
the Cook Islands. The multimillion-dollar contract is funded by the New Zealand
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Green Climate Fund.
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The data and products developed under this contract will help ICI improve and
advance sustainable infrastructure development, environmental monitoring and
assessment, natural hazard planning and mitigation, disaster and climate
resilience, and nautical charting. ICI Project Manager Jake Langdon said the
data and imagery will support better management and planning.
"Lidar data enables us to model the landscape and seascape and understand how
they both change over time to identify specific regions most at risk to natural
disaster, climate change and other environmental issues," Langdon said. "We can
use this information to focus our resources, reinforce emergency transport
routes, protect people and infrastructure in harm's way, and mitigate the
overall impact of natural disasters before they strike."
This project will cover approximately 229 square kilometers, including
terrestrial, lagoon and offshore components across the 12 inhabited islands of
the Cook Islands. To support work in the remote northern islands, Woolpert
Project Manager Constance Solemani is working closely with regional partners
and ICI to coordinate complicated logistics, including the prepositioning of
jet fuel for acquisition efforts.
This project is the latest in Woolpert's geospatial data acquisitions across
the Pacific, including recent collections in Vanuatu (
) and Tonga (
). As with Tonga, Woolpert will be supported by aerial services provider Kiwi
Air (
) of New Zealand. This acquisition is scheduled to occur between July and
October.
About Woolpert
Woolpert is the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and
strategic consulting firm, with a vision to become one of the best companies in
the world. We innovate within and across markets to effectively serve public,
private and government clients worldwide. Woolpert is an ENR Top 150 Global
Design Firm, has earned six straight Great Place to Work certifications and
actively nurtures a culture of growth, inclusion, diversity and respect.
Founded in 1911 in Dayton, Ohio, Woolpert has 1,900 employees and more than 60
offices on four continents. Visit woolpert.com (
).
Media contact: Jill Kelley; 937-531-1258, jill.kelley@woolpert.com
SOURCE: Woolpert
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