Hexagon Acquires North West Geomatics

Hexagon has acquired the remaining 90 percent of the shares in North West Geomatics, making the company a fully owned subsidiary of Hexagon. Hexagon acquired 10 percent of North West Geomatics’ shares in 2012. North West Geomatics, also known as North West Group (North West), provides aerial mapping and related spatial data services to engineering and mapping firms, environmental consulting organisations and government agencies.

In addition to housing the single largest library of high-resolution imagery and Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) data in Canada, North West has been a pioneer in developing various techniques to maximise efficiency and productivity in photo acquisition and subsequent photogrammetric tasks. Valtus - North West’s content database - enables the integration of any customer’s privately owned content through a hosting service. By dedicating a significant portion of resources to continuing research and development, North West remains at the forefront in the aerial photography industry.

North West brings valuable expertise in selling data content as a service (CaaS) through its Valtus database, which enables crowdsourcing of data content. Together with advances in sensor capabilities and the acquisitions of Airborne Hydrography, Aibotix, Geosoft and Tridicon, North West will be an instrumental part in Hexagon’s ambitions within this field, said Hexagon president and CEO Ola Rollén.