With the expansion of urbanization throughout the globe, it has become extremely important for companies to supply quality infrastructure to customers. The need, demand, search and expectations of people to get top notch facilities has reached an all time high, more so in recent times.
It is universally acknowledged that the growth of any sector is dependent on the infrastructure development. This is where remote sensing and GIS plays a major role. Several planning agencies require different kind of spatial analysis of 2D and 3D maps considering a lot of parameters. It is seen that out of all other technologies, geospatial data science can provide the most important and appropriate sources for spatial analysis when used alongside remote sensing that can provide even more accurate maps in any GIS environment. Urban planners and decision making bodies can make the most out of the help provided by the non-spatial data attached to it. To meet the demands, the solutions must be rapid, efficient and latest in terms of technology. Determination of appropriate site location for industries pose one of the important challenge around the globe today.
Site Suitability analysis — The need of the hour
Site selection or Suitability is the analysis of used in GIS to determine the best place or site of something. Identifying the best location for anything can be laborious, time-consuming, complicated and even sometimes tricky. Site Suitability is the key answer to all the potential questions risen. It is designed in a way that caters to multiple variables of varying importance to identify locations, best suited to the criteria of a site.
The basic premise of a GIS Suitability analysis is that each aspect of landscape has some intrinsic characteristics that are either suitable or unsuitable for the activities being planned. model can solve a lot of problems, some being-
· Emergency helipad
· Site of a new housing development or retail store
· Locating a new road or a pipeline
· Chalk out shortest and quickest routes
· Crime Analysis
· Town planning
· Land Use analysis
· Deployment of troops involving military operations in risky locations
· Identifying potential wildlife habitats for conservation and avoiding destruction of existing ecosystem.
· Locating potential areas for agricultural activities in diverse terrestrial domains.
How can Heliware can help you solve site suitability!
Heliware’s HeliAI is a potential one stop solution when it comes to selecting optimal site for your store, warehouse, retail chains, etc. HeliAI is an AI powered visualization and analytics platform for spatial data engineering that lets one to get insight from geospatial, perform powerful analytics, share and publish maps and a lot more.
· With the easier to use Data Visualization, HeliAI enables a 3D multivariate visualization platform for vendors, planners and other bodies to get an insight on locating sites for action.
· The Route Planner provides the ease of automating the shortest and most time efficient route, in case of multiple locations to visit. One can also add their own routes and even optimize them as per their needs and requirements. Based on the data, one can visualize the time animation of the objects following that route to observe patterns and trends.
· Our Geoprocessing tools help to manipulate spatial data. All possible operations involving combining data, intersecting two different layers having common features, filtering data and proximity to point locations and roads can be easily mapped.
The results of a Suitability analysis are often displayed on a map that highlights an area from high to low suitability.
