Merrick uses leading-edge processes and technologies to cost-effectively tailor data collection, editing, and translation to meet any mapping requirement. Our string alliances with numerous global software and hardware providers enables us to create fully customized, short-term and long-term data management solutions. Merrick's in-house capabilities (LIDAR data acquisition, GPS surveying, aero-triangulation, photogrammetry, CADD, digital-ortho, and GIS application photogrammetry) allow for a completely integrated team under a single project manager. The project team approach eliminates unnecessary overhead, duplication of tasks, and coordination problems between project phases. See also http://www.merrick.com/servicelines/gis/lidarrequest.aspx for a quote