Retired Col. Chris Helstad,

USAF, Added to Federal

Continental Mapping Awarded US Army Corps IDIQ

Continental Mapping is pleased to

announce that the Tulsa District of

the US Army Corps of Engineers

has awarded an indefinite delivery/

indefinite quantity surveying and

mapping services contract to a

team led by Continental Mapping

Consultants. The 5-year contract

Programs Team

Continental Mapping is pleased

to announce the hiring of Retired

Colonel Chris Helstad as director

of business development in our

Federal Programs Division.

Col. Helstad retired from the

Wisconsin Air National Guard in

has a limit of $6 million and will focus on photogrammetric and

land survey projects, with an

emphasis on dam safety studies in

the four states the District and the

Corps’ Southwest Division covers:

Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and

Texas.

“This is exciting—an IDIQ like this is a big deal,” said Continental

Mapping President Dave Hart. “We

have worked on dozens of Corps

projects across the country, and it’s

great when the hard work it takes to

build that level of experience pays

off with this kind of recognition.”

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2009, fresh off a 5-month tour as

the Chief of Combat Operations

Service Expansion: Satellite Mapping Photogrammetric mapping not just for aircraft anymore

for the Continental United States

North America Aerospace Defense

Command (CONR). Col. Helstad

brings to Continental Mapping

24 years of military leadership

experience and direct programmatic

knowledge of DoD and FAA

aerospace information programs

relevant to our work, including

obstruction flight analysis and

intelligence operations.

Col. Helstad’s experience as an F-16

pilot and an international pilot for

Delta provides our clients continued on page 2...

Rapid deployment, crisp imagery,

0.5-meter contours, worldwide

reach. The aircraft-sourced aerial

mapping you’ve come to expect for

domestic projects is now available

worldwide, thanks to a constellation

of commercial high-resolution

imaging satellites from GeoEye and

DigitalGlobe. Continental Mapping

is pleased to be at the forefront of

this game-changing technology

by offering our clients high-

quality photogrammetric mapping

services from commercial satellite

imagery in association with eMap

International, a leading geospatial

products provider.

Our team’s photogrammetrists have

demonstrated that the accuracies

and quality rivaling many standard

forms of photogrammetric mapping

can be accomplished by using

satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe

and GeoEye satellites are capable

of providing stereo panchromatic

imagery at a 0.5-meter resolution—

the highest resolution legal in

America for satellite imagery. This

imagery is more than suitable for

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Col. Chris Helstad continued... Army Corps IDIQ continued...

Continental Mapping’s program

manager for the contract, Certified

Photogrammetrist Chris Aldridge,

added, “The Corps is a great client.

I’ve had the opportunity to manage

several IDIQs for other districts

and other government agencies,

and I’m excited about working

with the Tulsa District. My first

meeting with the staff there went

well, and we are already moving

forward with work on the first task

order. It is going be a fun challenge!

Fortunately, we have a very focused

and knowledgeable staff, and we

have an experienced team of large

and small business partners that are

industry leaders in this work.”

Continental Mapping is pleased

to add the Tulsa District to our

list of federal clients, and we look

forward to serving their geospatial

data development needs as a

small business prime contractor.

Continental Mapping plans to

continue expanding our service

offerings to meet the demands of our

Corps clients as well as engage our

large and small business partners to

meet the needs of this contract.

with valuable insight into aviation

programs worldwide. As the Director

of State Operations for the Wisconsin

Air National Guard from 2003-2009,

See Us At Upcoming Conferences!

Continental Mapping will be attending several conferences in

the coming months. Look for us at the following:

Col. Helstad also has a firsthand

understanding of the needs of Air

Force and Army base and firing range

commanders, as he has both managed

these and worked at many across

the country. We are pleased to have

Col. Helstad advising in our daily

operations and being a public face of

the company.

TNGIC 2010 State Conference

April 7-8, Gatlinburg, TN

NDIA Small Business Conference

April 12-13, Moline, IL

SAME Little Rock & Tulsa Posts

Future Work and Small Business

Symposium

April 13-15, Tulsa, OK

Mid-America GIS Symposium

April 18-22, Kansas City, MO

BAE GXP User’s Conference

April 19-23, San Diego, CA

ASPRS Annual Conference

April 26-30, San Diego, CA

SAME JETC Conference

May 4-7, San Atlanta, GA

Satellite Mapping continued...

many mapping applications, such as

highly accurate topographic mapping.

Multispectral imagery at a 2-meter

resolution and covering up to eight

bands in the case of DigitalGlobe’s

WorldView-2 is also available.

With a revisit time of approximately

3 days (depending on latitude), your

next project is readily accessible,

domestically or abroad, and

archival stereo imagery is available.

As in traditional aerial mapping,

imagery is tied to control points for

increased accuracies through the

aerotriangulation process. By tying

into existing databases of photo-

identifiable points located worldwide,

or by sending a survey team to

a specific location, our team can

ensure that positional precision is

accomplished in the final mapping.

From volumetric surveys to site

analysis to updated orthoimagery,

your next mapping project can

be accomplished by Continental

Mapping Consultants, no matter the

location.

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite

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Welcome New Employees!

In addition to Retired Colonel Chris Helstad,

Continental Mapping welcomed three new employees

in late 2009 to our photogrammetric mapping and

geospatial data development teams, and we are very

excited to have their experience onboard.

Mr. Doug Rebhahn joins us from Melbourne, Florida,

where he worked as a geospatial analyst. Mr. Rebhahn

adds valuable experience meeting the geospatial

data development needs of Continental Mapping’s

Department of Defense clients from his past work

experiences.

Mr. Nathan Wuenstel joins Continental Mapping

from Fort Collins, Colorado, and will also be applying

his photogrammetric expertise to our government

projects. We are excited to welcome Mr. Wuenstel and

his family back to their home state of Wisconsin.

Ms. Breanna Testin joins Continental Mapping from

Minneapolis, where she was a GIS Specialist at a utility

company. Referred to Continental Mapping by a current

employee, we are pleased that the word is getting out

about the benefits of joining our team and the high-

caliber employees our reputation has attracted.

Airport GIS and e-ALP Surveys Airport orthophotography

The FAA is currently implementing a program

to convert airport information into a Geographic

Information System. The implementation of the

Airport-GIS, or A-GIS, program is an ambitious step in

developing a uniform and consistent data structure for

all airports. Within the A-GIS program is the e-ALP

(Airport Layout Plan) module. Continental Mapping is

familiar with the requirements and has the experience

to successfully complete the very specialized surveys

required for e-ALP.

Continental Mapping’s experienced technical staff

capably manages all aspects of the survey from the

initial flight and control planning through the image

acquisition and field survey to the finally executed and

submitted GIS files depicting the airport and approach

surfaces. In addition, Continental Mapping will

communicates with the FAA and the NGS, assists the

survey and engineering partners in the interpretation

of the required elements, and guides the submittal

process through the FAA Airport GIS portal.

Left to right: Doug Rebhahn, Nathan Wuenstel, and Breanna Testin AS 150.5300-18B compliant GIS data overview

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In This Issue:

• Continental Mapping Awarded US

Army Corps IDIQ

• Service Expansion: Satellite Mapping

• Retired Col. Chris Helstad, USAF, Added

to Federal Programs Team

• Airport GIS and e-ALP Surveys

• Welcome New Employees!

• Upcoming Conferences

For further information on these features

or general inquiries, please contact:

Continental Mapping Consultants, Inc.

Wisconsin Office

Sun Prairie, WI

608.834.9823 phone

608.834.8534 fax

Indiana Office

Plainfield, IN

317.244.1800 phone

317.536.2606 fax

Oregon Office

Portland, OR

503.505.1544 phone

info@continentalmapping.com

www.continentalmapping.com