Photointerpretation and Mapping

Over 1 million km² of photo interpretation
and mapping worldwide

Forestry and ecoforestry mapping


Forest Inventory of Southwest Forest
Central African Republic

  • Annual participation for close to 30 years in Quebec’s 10-year forest inventory (over 25 million hectares)
  • Summary forestry-mapping (16 million hectares)
  • Major hydroelectric development projects in Quebec (7.5 million hectares)
  • Mapping studies at a scale of 1:200,000 of forests in Cameroon (6 million hectares), Central African Republic (3.5 million hectares) and Ethiopia (25 million hectares)
  • Mapping studies at a scale of 1:50,000 for preinvestment projects in Cameroon (350,000 hectares), Sudan (3.5 million hectares), Trinidad and Tobago (300,000 hectares) and Zaire (5 million hectares)
  • Mapping studies at a scale of 1:20 000 of production-forest reserves in Cameroon (300,000 hectares), the Ivory Coast (370 million hectares) and Gabon (150,000 hectares)

Geomorphology

  • Annual participation in the mapping program of Quebec’s ecological districts (over 10 million hectares)
  • Major hydroelectric-development projects in Quebec (7.5 million hectares)
  • Nature and dynamics of embankments of new hydroelectric reservoirs in Quebec (over 1 million hectares)

Multi-resource development

  • Mingan Archipelago National Park in Quebec
  • Multi-resource mapping of 130,000 hectares as part of Quebec’s forest-development program on Indian lands (PAFTI)
  • Peatland mapping
  • Land-use mapping in Cameroon (6 million hectares)
  • Forest-use maps for southern Cameroon (6 million hectares)
  • Forest-use maps for zone 1 in Gabon (3.5 million)
  • Forest-use maps for Central African Republic (3.5 million hectares)
    • from small or large-scale satellite (optical or radar images) or aerial (conventional aerial photos or radar images) images
    • interpretation of over 2 million km² satellite images
    • interpretation of over 100,000 aerial photos
  • Digitized mapping using geographic information systems (GIS)
    • Production of over 20,000 thematic maps
    • Production of over 1,000 synthesis maps
    • A few Tecsult achievements
      • Space map of Quebec
      • Map identifying ice movement
      • Land use in Cameroon