Government
Government agencies are responsible for more land than any team can physically monitor. We give you the near-real-time environmental intelligence to steward our country’s greatest assets.
Environmental intelligence for government agencies
Government agencies manage land at a scale that boots-on-the-ground monitoring simply can’t keep up with.
We work with state agencies, public utilities, and other government organizations to replace slow, labor-intensive GIS processes with near-real-time environmental intelligence. Our solutions are built to hold up in regulatory filings, permitting decisions, and legal proceedings.
When it comes to protecting public land, we can’t afford to get it wrong.
How Skytec can help government agencies
Wetland mapping and prediction
What once took months or years of manual work to map, we can now map in days. We apply geo-AI and deep learning to satellite imagery to produce detailed, defensible wetland maps that the whole community can use.
Public land monitoring
Monitor conservation easements, boundary lines, and sensitive habitats across thousands—even millions—of acres, without dispatching field teams. Our Ranger® product delivers near real-time change detection across any-sized landscape.
Natural disaster impact assessment
When a wildfire, flood, or storm hits, agencies need to understand the impact the disaster has had on the landscape right away. No waiting months to assess the damage—we can quantify the impact just days after the event.
client spotlight
How we solved TDEC’s wetland detection problem
When federal wetland protections shifted, states were suddenly on the hook to manage their own. Tennessee needed to know exactly what wetlands it had. A special legislative session gave us eight weeks to predict every wetland in the state at three-meter resolution. So, we did.
Using geo-AI technologies paired with our decades of environmental management expertise, we mapped 800,000 additional acres of wetlands beyond what the National Wetland Inventory showed. Our solution was built at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods, with greater accuracy. TDEC now uses our wetland detection tool for every development project across the entire state.
In this webinar presented to the National Association of Wetland Managers (NAWM), Andy Carroll walks through exactly how Skytec created the tool and outlines how other states could follow suit.
Testimonials
What our clients have to say
Skytec has been a trusted geospatial partner for over a decade collaborating on numerous large-scale mapping initiatives, supporting acquisition of design-grade LiDAR and high-resolution imagery to advanced satellite-based monitoring. Their team consistently delivers precise, practical, and reliable solutions that help turn complex geospatial data into confident project tools that inform decision making in natural and water resources management, ecological restoration, and engineering.
David Vance
Senior Consultant at Geosyntec Consultants
Co-Founder at Keystone Collaborative
Without Skytec and their innovation and ideas, we simply would not be in the leadership position of supply chain visibility that we find ourselves in today.
Jeremy Poirier
Sr Manager Fiber Certification and Sustainability
We’re a small organization with a lot of land. It’s not feasible for us to rely solely on patrolling our boundary lines on foot. With Skytec, we have extra eyes in the sky on our properties basically at all times. We catch issues early and notify state foresters quickly.
Eliot Berz
Executive Director
Skytec gave us the ability to identify our key habitats, such as our mountain bogs, our hemlock groves, our rhododendron, our bluff lines where neotropical bird species are coming through. With Skytec’s help, we decided where to construct our bird laboratory based on where we wanted people to enter our property and where we wanted to conduct our research.
Quentin Miller
Associate Director
Frequently asked questions
Our solutions are built on Esri’s ArcGIS infrastructure — an enterprise-grade environment used by government agencies worldwide. Whether you’re engaging us for a GIS professional services project or subscribing to the Ranger® platform for continuous monitoring, your data is stored and managed within ArcGIS’s secure cloud environment, not on our own servers. For agencies with specific compliance requirements, contact us to discuss
your needs.
Yes, and it’s important to differentiate between geo-AI and generative AI. We use deep learning and machine learning models, not generative AI. Whether we’re building a custom wetland detection model through our GIS professional services or running continuous monitoring through Ranger, our analyses are derived from established satellite sources, validated against ground-truth data, and designed to be explainable and defensible in regulatory and legal contexts.
Yes, our solutions natively integrate with ArcGIS, the enterprise-grade software used by government agencies worldwide.. Our GIS professional services produce deliverables — models, maps, detection tools — that plug directly into your existing ArcGIS environment. The Ranger® platform is also built on ArcGIS, so it works within the tools your team is already using and trained on. Whether you need a one-time project or ongoing monitoring, you don’t have to change your tech stack to work with us.
