TCarta Marine, a
global provider of geospatial products and services, has opened an office in
Kingston, Jamaica. Officially operating as a separate Jamaican company, TCarta
Caribe offers the complete line of TCarta satellite-derived bathymetry,
seafloor classification, land use/land cover, and air quality solutions to
Jamaica and the entire Caribbean region.
“Jamaica and many
nearby Caribbean islands are developing nations seeking to balance economic
growth with environmental preservation,” said TCarta president Kyle Goodrich.
“The Caribbean people take great pride in doing what is right for their
islands.”
Carol Fisher is a
partner in TCarta Caribe and serves as Program Manager and Lead Hydrographer in
the Kingston office. Born and raised in Jamaica, Fisher worked most recently as
a Senior Hydrographer at the Jamaican National Land Agency. She holds a degree
in Land Surveying/GIS.
“The Caribbean faces
numerous threats to its natural resources from hurricanes, rising sea levels,
and pollution – but budgets are limited,” said Fisher.
With offices in the
United States, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates, TCarta has built an
international business on cost-effectively and safely deriving onshore and
offshore data sets with Earth observation satellites – without negative impact
on the natural habitat. TCarta products and services are relied upon by
governmental, insurance, oil & gas, environmental, and infrastructure
development clients in applications as diverse as natural resource monitoring,
tsunami modeling, disaster & hazard response, and hydrologic studies.
“Many islands in the
Caribbean have been deemed too risky or remote for traditional airborne and
marine mapping, but satellite remote sensing technology is a practical
alternative for capturing vital geospatial information,” said Fisher.
“High-resolution
satellite imagery can provide elevation models, bathymetric data, and habitat
classifications faster and at a fraction of the cost of surveys by airborne
LiDAR or marine SONAR,” Goodrich added.
Complementing Carol
Fisher’s extensive experience working on hydrographic programs in the
Caribbean, TCarta has completed numerous projects in the region. Most recently,
TCarta delivered pre- and post-disaster surface models for the islands of
Antigua and Barbuda for use in Hurricane
Irma recovery efforts. The 2018 satellite-derived models from Sentinel-2
images contained seamless datasets of onshore elevation and offshore water
depth measurements for each island.
For more information
on TCarta Caribe, please contact Carol Fisher at 1-876-817-8567 or by email at cf@tcarta.com.
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