ABOUT us
ANVIL GeoSpatial Corporation (AGC) is a privately owned Alberta company, originally
established in March 1998 as a Calgary-based geomatics services company. The company
has evolved to its present state, dedicated to providing project coordination resources
with an emphasis on internet delivery of gemoatics based products and services. With
the acquisition of BlueFox Geomatics Inc. in November 2004, AGC expanded its scope of
services to include geomatics science and technology curriculum development and training.
Through strategic alliances and joint venture partners AGC can provide a wide spectrum of
professional services and geospatial technology products. Our primary experience is based
around geomatics business development tasks and geomatics project coordination services.
As a long standing partner with the SAIT Polytechnic GIS Applied Degree Program and the
SAIT GeoSpatial Technology Applied Research group (GeoSTAR), we have experience in the
design, planning, and implementation of activities associated with technology training
necessary to operate and maintain the successfull operation of geomatics systems.
AGC can provide assistance to clients for all phases of a high technology project cycle
alternatively our services can be restricted to selected specialty areas where required.
The company President, Joseph (Reg) Letourneau, has been involved in project management
activities since 1987 in fields ranging from health care delivery to commercial
construction, and specifically in the field of geomatics/GIS since 1996. Internationally
we have experience in Australia, Tanzania, and Kurdistan Iraq.
The term "geomatics" is a uniquely Canadian invention, and refers to a multi-disciplinary
approach to problem solving in areas that involve the science and technology of managing
geographically referenced spatial information, on or near the earth's surface and related
knowledge management activities. As a profession, the field of geomatics encompasses such
activities as: surveying; cartography; global positioning systems (GPS); remote sensing;
and geographic information systems (GIS). The term geomatics has its origins in the Greek
geo, pertaining to the earth, and matics, pertaining to the practical application of
information and mathematics. A geographic information systems (GIS) is an integral
component of geomatics. It is a computerized set of tools that integrates the visual
display technologies associated with digital mapping with the analytical power of
relational database management systems. GIS is rapidly transforming the way spatially
related activities are managed, and how geographic data can be put to optimum use to
analyze the past, monitor the present, and model the future.
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