KBM Field Services has adapted and evolved to offer cutting-edge forestry services that meet the diverse needs of Canada’s landscapes, from comprehensive forest inventories to advanced aerial and ground-based health monitoring.
A Comprehensive Suite of Forestry Services Across Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan
Over the years forestry practices across Ontario, and Canada, have changed and developed in ways that represent the diversity of our collective land and values. Throughout the last 50-years in business KBM has also continued to evolve to ensure we are implementing innovative solutions for modern forestry challenges. Today, KBM offers a comprehensive suite of forestry services across Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan that can best be described as precision forestry.
With a diverse team of registered forestry professionals, technicians, certified photo-interpreters, and specialists across several complementary disciplines, we provide comprehensive, start-to-finish forestry services. Our expertise spans from fixed and variable-radius forest inventory plots to large-scale forest carbon inventories, as well as aerial forest health mapping, ground-based health monitoring, establishment surveys, harvest block layout, tree planting support, and 3D softcopy photo interpretation.
Related Projects
Vegetation Sampling Network (VSN)
Government of Ontario
KBM has supported the Ontario Government’s Vegetation Sampling Network annually since 2020. This ground plot network allows data to be collected for a variety of purposes at the same time and to the same standard via a set of documented protocols.
Thunder Bay International Airport Authority Inc. (TBIAAI)
Since 2017, KBM has supported the Thunder Bay Airport Authority with comprehensive GIS services. Leveraging imagery and LiDAR captured by KBM, our Geomatics team integrates Thunder Bay Airport AutoCAD datasets into a user-friendly GIS environment, creating a centralized hub for data visualization and access. Airport staff can easily view and interact with these datasets through a web application that provides various web mapping solutions and tools.
SaskPower Aerial Survey and Vegetation Analysis
KBM has been providing aerial survey and mapping services to SaskPower continuously since 2012. During this period, KBM has mapped SaskPower’s entire transmission network (13,500 km), completed as-built surveys for newly constructed lines, and performed periodic base map validation surveys to maintain data currency. Airborne data collection includes LiDAR, high resolution orthoimagery with stereo coverage, high resolution oblique photography, georeferenced video, and meteorological data collection. Acquired LiDAR data is classified and used to generate elevation models, PLS-CADD models of transmission assets, and vegetation analysis for at risk foliage growing towards the lines. KBM also delivers an online web application to SaskPower which hosts their asset data and allows for dynamic report generation and downloading of various datasets.
Wataynikaneyap Power
Wataynikaneyap Power is one of the largest First Nations-led infrastructure projects in Canada. KBM has been working with Wataynikaneyap Power since 2017 acquiring high density LiDAR and Aerial Photography and providing GIS analysis and mapping support for their diverse project needs throughout both the construction and operations phase of the project.
