Surveyors: GIS’s new BFF Tara J Seitz, BAppGIS

AGENDA • What do GISers want?

• What do surveyors do?

• Why should GIS get friendly with surveyors?

• Questions

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Perspective

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What do GISers want? • Pipeliners want their GIS to answer the ‘where’

questions - Where can I route my pipeline? - Where are the land owners/nearest structures? - Where are the environmental concerns? - Where do I travel to access the facilities? - Where are my crossings? - Where does my ILI match the pipeline? - Where could a leak happen?

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What do surveyors do? • Surveyors collect field data

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What do surveyors do? • Surveyors collect lots of field data

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What do surveyors do? • Surveyors collect field data

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What do surveyors do?

• The data is processed

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What do surveyors do?

• Accuracy is sub-decimetre

• “GROUND TRUTHING”

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Why fortify the relationship between the surveyor(s)/company & GIS:

- Where can I route my pipeline? Best route selection (price, distance, risk)

- Where are the land owners/nearest structures? Contract arrangements with land owners, Class location, Stakeholder Relations Management, MAR assessment - Where are the environmental concerns? Leak mapping & containment planning

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Why fortify the relationship between the surveyor(s)/company & GIS:

- Where do I travel to access the facilities? Access Road Maps, Equipment and Maintenance permissions - Where are my crossings? Planning, Engineering & Inspection - Where does my ILI match the pipeline? Finding patterns for prediction models; Dig program

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Why fortify the relationship between the surveyor(s)/company & GIS:

- Where could a leak happen? Reportables; prediction modeling; Overland Flow modeling; plume modeling / ignition source; proximity to land owners Directive 056: Applications CSA Z662-11: Oil and Gas Pipeline Systems Directive 071: Emergency Preparedness and Response Cathodic Protection Programs Rerouting Facilities Management Land use Planning

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GIS get friendly with surveyors? • Surveyors are collecting

subdecimetre-accurate,

Digital (x,y,z,m,l),

post processed into CAD/GIS format

data; that is ready to use for pipeline routing, AER applications, construction, operations, maintenance, and, risk.

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INVITATION to start the conversation • Bring GIS to the planning table

• Ask what GIS needs? - What database standard? - What data deliverable format?

• Ask what are the data need of the current projects?

• IT?! - “What does the data look like?”

• New vendor?! - “client will provide the data”

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Questions?

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Tara J Seitz Manager of GIS & Creative Solutions Tara.Seitz@focus.ca