Improved Placement of Wireless Transmission Towers

Prior to NEXTMap OTPs, telecommunications companies had to depend on inconsistent and unreliable elevation data that required labour-intensive and costly validation field surveys, thereby increasing the expense and time required to upgrade and expand microwave transmission networks.

Now, network planners can easily retrieve highly reliable profile data between towers, based on NEXTMap digital surface models (1-metre or better vertical accuracy) that include cultural features such as vegetation, buildings, and roads. Then, they can immediately view the results online or import the data into their network planning software to create accurate signal propagation models that quickly verify whether lines of sight between proposed tower locations are unimpeded.

"Our application is created for anyone in the telecommunications industry who builds, engineers, or plans microwave networks due to its ease of operation and the speed with which lines of sight can be determined anywhere in the US or Western Europe," said Tony Brown, vice president of Intermap's data products group.