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You are here: Home / * PRESS / Business / Fugro Wins International Business Award From State of Alaska

Fugro Wins International Business Award From State of Alaska

December 29, 2015 By GISuser

Fugro Wins Alaska Governor’s North Star Award for International Excellence

Alaska Governor Bill Walker has announced Fugro as winner of the 2015 Governor’s North Star Award for International Excellence in the category of scientific exchange. This important accolade follows the ‘Spotlight on Arctic Technology’ award announced during the annual Arctic Technology Conference last year.

Fugro was honored for its development of an airborne sea-ice management capability that enables ice thickness mapping, characterization, and monitoring over large geographic areas. Utilizing a unique radar mapping system known as GeoSAR, the ice management capability is designed to reduce risk in Arctic operations.

Fugro’s Alaska Division Manager Rada Khadjinova accepted the award, saying, “It is an honor to be recognized by Governor Walker for this important work. This is truly an Alaska-born discovery, made during our early work on the Alaska Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI), and now being utilized in other Arctic regions.”

Originally designed as a regional-scale topographic mapping solution, Fugro deployed the GeoSAR system to Alaska in 2010 to help update the state’s baseline mapping data. It was during this project that Fugro realized the depths to which its GeoSAR system could penetrate snow and ice. Efforts to exploit this capability began in 2012 and have continued every summer since then. In 2016, Fugro anticipates bringing the capability into commercial operations.

In accepting the award, Khadjinova noted the value of partnerships in moving technology forward, both from a state and federal funding perspective with regard to the SDMI, as well as from a research and development perspective, an effort which has included multiple industry, academia, and public-sector partners.

For more information:

www.fugro.com

ABOUT FUGRO

Fugro creates value by acquiring and interpreting earth and engineering data and providing associated consulting services to support clients with their design and construction of infrastructure and buildings. Fugro also supports clients with the installation, repair and maintenance of their subsea infrastructure. Fugro is an independent service provider.

Fugro works around the globe, predominantly in energy and infrastructure markets offshore and onshore employing approximately 12,500 employees in over seventy countries. In 2014 Fugro’s revenue amounted to EUR 2.6 billion; Fugro is listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

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