Within 24 hours of the tornado that struck downtown St. Louis, Bowman mobilized its disaster mapping team from our local hangar to capture post-event aerial imagery. The Cessna Conquest aircraft, equipped with a Phase One PANA imaging system, collected high-resolution, georeferenced data over the affected area. Leveraging advanced orthoimagery technology and ESRI visualization tools, our […]

Bowman is pleased to welcome Andy Dearing as executive vice president overseeing all aerial imaging operations nationally. In this role, Dearing will direct all high-altitude aerial orthoimagery, digital mapping and lidar operations acquired in connection with the Company’s April 2024 purchase of St. Louis-based Surdex. He will also manage the integration of the Company’s drone-based […]

Bowman announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire St. Louis-based Surdex Corporation (“Surdex”), a geospatial and engineering services firm providing low-, medium- and high-altitude digital orthoimagery, advanced high-resolution LiDAR, intelligent digital mapping, 3D hydrography, and disaster mapping. The acquisition is subject to usual and customary closing conditions and is expected to formally […]