Watersheds, viewsheds, flood zones, terrain derivatives, land-cover classification, and multi-format regulatory submissions — automated for the federal agencies you actually deliver to.
Every NEPA EIS, wetland delineation support package, and stormwater plan requires the same dozen spatial analyses, run by hand each project, in tools that don't talk to each other.
Dozens of spatial analyses per Environmental Impact Statement
$27.3B US environmental consulting market, almost entirely ESRI-shop
Hydrology pipelines rebuilt project-by-project
EPA / USACE / USFWS / FEMA each demand different deliverable formats
Sixteen workflows mapped to the spatial-analysis backbone of NEPA, Clean Water Act, and ESA compliance work.
| Workflow | Name & what it automates | Time saved |
|---|---|---|
| #05 | Viewshed Analysis Viewshed from observer location with optional ASTER GDEM fetch — for EIS visual-impact sections | — |
| #62 | Flood Risk Assessment Spatial join against FEMA SFHA flood zones with per-asset classification | — |
| #41 | Slope Classification Slope percentage / degree raster from DEM for terrain stability assessment | — |
| #43 | Vector Ruggedness Measure Terrain ruggedness for habitat characterization and ESA consultation | — |
| #02 | Contour Generation DEM-to-contour for topographic map sheets in regulatory submissions | — |
| #03 | 3D GeoPDF Export Interactive 3D GeoPDF combining DEM + vector overlays for review portals | — |
| #33 | NDVI Vegetation Mapping Multi-temporal NDVI for habitat condition and revegetation monitoring | — |
| #68 | Batch Format Conversion Multi-format, multi-CRS output for EPA, USACE, USFWS, and FEMA submissions | — |
| #287 | LiDAR QA/QC Suite USGS Lidar Base Specification compliance check before regulatory submission | — |
| #292 | Deliverable Compliance Checker Validates package against agency-specific schemas and attribute requirements | — |
| #273 | Land Cover Change Detection Multi-temporal classification with change matrix — long-term remediation monitoring | — |
| #276 | M3C2 LiDAR Epoch Comparison cm-precision change with confidence intervals for landfill / remediation site tracking | — |
Modeled on a mid-sized environmental consulting firm running 40 concurrent NEPA / wetland projects.
| Metric | Manual / current tooling | GeoDataConverter |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrology pipeline per project | 3–5 days | Minutes |
| Annual GIS labor on terrain derivatives | $420,000 | $48,000 |
| Format-conversion rework per submission | 8–12 hours | Automated |
| Deliverable rejection rate | 10–15% | <2% |
DEM conditioning (breach + fill), D8 / D-infinity flow direction, flow accumulation, Strahler stream ordering, watershed delineation, and Topographic Wetness Index — all chained into one workflow you can call from a script, the chatbot, or the web UI. Outputs are agency-ready: GeoTIFF for terrain, Shapefile for vector, GeoPDF for the report sheet.
We'll re-run terrain derivatives and the hydrology pipeline on five of your active project sites and compare against your current ArcGIS / QGIS workflow.