Data Quality Projects

In 1999 – 2002, WaterMark was retained as the Project Manager and Quality Control Inspector for acquisition of Vertical Aerial Photography and Photo Control. This contract involved the management of the necessary activities to collect aerial photography to be used in the construction of some 1 500 coloured orthomaps. Project deliverables included the necessary management tools to run the contract as well as all of the photography.

In 2000, WaterMark was retained as the Project Manager and Quality Control Inspector for Coastal Softcopy Orthophoto Data Base Production Contracts for Service New Brunswick. The contract involved the development of the systems specifications required to produce the mapping, the management of production contractors and product delivery schedule for over 326 map sheet files.

In 2000, WaterMark was retained as the Project Manager and Quality Control Inspector for Coastal Topographic Data Base and the Digital Topographic Data Base Production Contracts for Service New Brunswick. The contract involved the management of production contractors and product delivery for over 1890 map sheet files.

In 1997, WaterMark was retained as the Project Manager for an initial review of the digital data quality control practices for the Canadian Hydrographic Service - Atlantic Region. This review examined the current practices and made recommendations for modifications.

In 1996 – 1997, WaterMark was retained as the Project Manager for a 2 year three phased project conducted for Department of National Defence on Managing Uncertainty in digital geographical data. The project team included software programmers and analysts and involved developing appropriate methods of representing data quality considering the issues involved in integrating datasets from different sources. The project developed software and specifications to be used in visualizing data.

In 1995, WaterMark was retained as a Project Manager and Quality Control Inspector for Digital Topographic Database Production Contracts for the New Brunswick Geographic Information Corporation. Contract involved over 1890 map sheet files.