Percheron has a fully staffed Land Administration Department (“LAD”) that works from our centralized office in Katy, Texas. Our LAD group works in tandem with our right of way agents, title abstractors, surveyors, and GIS to generate documents, send mass mailouts, manage data, and record documents in the applicable county records. 

We set high expectations for our team to provide quality deliverables. LAD can control the work product and supervise the work even if the document specialist is in the field. Our teams’ refined processes ensure consistency and efficiency for your projects. In addition, we customize those processes to serve each client’s specific needs and expectations for project success. Our cutting-edge processes are established as best industry practices for our office, Percheron, and clients.

Percheron’s Land Administration Department has streamlined the document and check request process. With the aid of IT, LAD created an app for requesting documents to be generated and request checks processed through the department, along with any other agent request. 

Our experienced and knowledgeable team of GIS professionals are here for all your geospatial needs.  The department provides an integral component to our project planning, design and construction.   Our services can satisfy a broad range of needs from varying entities and across multiple industries utilizing the latest industry-leading ESRI ArcGIS Software. 

Webmap Applications:

• GRID – Utilizing the ESRI ArcGIS Online Webmap applications in combination with our database and reporting tools we can provide a one-stop-shop for viewing, tracking, and reporting on your project.
• ArcGIS Collector – Custom schema for your specific project in a file Geodatabase that can be built real-time in the field leveraging the collector application you can track project progress as it’s collected and easily convert the data into GIS deliverables.
• Google Earth – A often popular file format, KMZ/KML files are used in the field that GIS can ingest to create customized versions to display embedded images, custom attribution, and symbology to make your project shine.

Data Management:

• Percheron GIS can handle your data management needs with decades of combined experience. From an Enterprise-style multi-user GIS editable in AGOL with a recorded username/date/time logs in a hosted feature service to our customizable database application, we have the tools to suit your project. ArcGIS Online collaboration groups for data sharing cut down on emails and data silos.  Data layers from the Webmap can be extracted and exported directly with a creator-level license.
• From initial tract load in CityVerse to get your project up and running in lightning-fast time, to tract numbering, reroute processing, title, survey spatial updates, and change tracking, we have you covered. 
• Data QA/QC using topology rules to identify and eliminate gaps and overlaps.
• CityVerse database allows for tracking of multiple acquisition types on one property to avoid redundancy and countless hours wasted updating the same information repeatedly.

Cartography:

• Static maps – PDF Maps, Plotter maps, Permit Mapbooks, Map Series (Mapbooks) for linear projects, we can make a customized map to suit your project's specific needs.
• Preliminary Exhibits – aka Landowner Sketches – Percheron GIS can generate these customized PDF maps to get in front of your landowner for survey and acquisition in a fraction of the time utilizing data-driven pages to generate 100’s of exhibits in short order.

GIS Analysis

• Disturbance modeling – utilizing a lidar dataset or DEM and converting to a vector dataset to extract slope data and applying to create an easement along the road at a predefined distance that fluctuates based on grade.
• Siting
• Routing
• Proximity analysis – (distance from line to point), intersections, unions, dissolves, buffers, spatial joins, per tract lengths & acreages, etc.

Route Selection:

• Utilizing industry-leading 3^rd party Pivvot software, Percheron GIS conducts route analysis and generates route options.  Using 100’s of public and private data layers for weighted analysis, we find the most suitable route to minimize costly reroutes.

Site Suitability Analysis:

• Utilizing industry-leading Pivvot software Percheron GIS can conduct site placement review for you based upon factors such as:
  • Slope (i.e. less than 10% grade)
  • Oil/Gas set back
  • Wetlands
  • Proximity to Roads
  • Floodplain
  • Airports
  • Powerlines
  • Land Use/Land Cover

Automation:

• Utilizing python to look for the most efficient workflows
• Data-driven pages for Mapbook and preliminary exhibit creation
• Python scripts to link the tabular data from the CityVerse database to the GRID Webmap App

Data Conversion

• Taking PDF maps and converting them into vector datasets using georeferencing.
• Converting raster into a vector to run advanced analysis using ArcGIS geoprocessing tools for datasets such as slope, land use, land cover, DEM.
• Converting between different data types – KML, KMZ, Shapefile, File Geodatabase Feature classes, DWG, DGN, etc.

Digitization

• Plot metes and bounds of tract or easements from a deed or conveyance into projected vector polygons with requested schema.
• Digitize based on static PDF maps into vector datasets.

When it comes to land management, you need service that meets your standards, your needs, and your project timeline—even in the most complex cases. That’s why Percheron only offers the most experienced professionals to handle all projects across the country. On every assignment, our dedicated experts are able to leverage a complete range of fully integrated resources to keep you on track. It’s the kind of attention to detail that keeps delays, surprises and worries out of the land management process.

Percheron’s team of FAA Licensed UAS pilots, combined with our Land Surveying Department’s full suite of traditional surveying services and Licensed Surveyors, offer a unique opportunity to integrate aerial and survey quality deliverables to our clients. From mission planning to raw collection, post-processing to QA/QC, and final deliverables, we do it all in-house! 

Our team can more efficiently and accurately capture data to give you complete insight into your facilities, pipelines, electric transmission lines, or roadways. Our state-of-the-art fleet is capable of flying lower and employs higher resolution sensors for video, still images, and LiDAR imagery compared to traditional manned aerial options. 

In many states across the US, aerial imagery, mapping, and even GIS are considered surveying, and only licensed survey companies can legally produce these deliverables. Percheron’s position as an integrated services company with survey licenses nationwide allows us to execute the work efficiently and legally. 

By combining UAS technology and services with our full-service Land Surveying Department, Percheron provides industry-leading services to the pipeline, E&P, electrical T&D, solar, wind, cellular, federal/state/local agencies, and real estate development companies. For close-up inspections and surveys of fixed assets such as power and electrical infrastructure, cell towers, and facilities, Percheron’s UAS team can provide detailed deliverables faster and safer than traditional methods.

Recent Percheron UAS Regulatory Achievements

2023

FAA Non-Geographically Constrained BVLOS Performance-Based Approval 

• Approved to conduct BVLOS operations anywhere in Class G airspace in the United States if the operations follow the parameters set in the wavier.                                     

2022

FAA BVLOS Approval - Beyond Visual Line Of Site 

• FAA geographically constrained waiver for exploratory project in West Virginia

FAA COA (Certificate of Authorization) 

• Authorization to fly in military airspace 

FAA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA Airline-Marshal Service, and Secret Service Approval 

• Authorized to fly in Washington, DC FRZ (Federally Restricted Zone), “White House Airspace”

With the focus on assisting our clients in their grid modernization and expansion efforts, Percheron's team brings extensive experience to the table.  We offer the most experienced professionals to handle all your projects across the country. Our dedicated experts can leverage a complete range of fully integrated resources on every assignment to keep you on track.  That’s why we use an integrated service model. The complexity associated with Electrical Transmission projects is simplified by our integrated approach because we have the subject matter experts available to excel in each of those critical areas, such as: concept development, non-environmental permitting, environmental permitting, land negotiations/acquisitions, survey, routing, tower/pole design, structural analysis, and conductor/cable sizing and sag/tension calculations.

Our team specializes in Routing, Siting, and Permitting Electrical Transmission Lines including the associated Substations, and has experience from 34.5-kV to 765-kV. Our Team focuses on Constructibility, Reliability, and Efficiency during all stages of our design from concept to construction packaging. We have experience with short-spanning connections across short distances, as well as regional, cross-country programs. 

With experience spanning some of the largest Transmission and Distribution (T&D) service providers across the country, we can help with overhead and underground T&D lines, substations, and telecommunications from design to construction.   

We are a team of professionals who have significant experience executing any size project in nearly every state in the Lower 48. We choose to recognize our relationship with our clients as a "Partnership". Partners expect honesty, transparency, accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Our employees believe in these values, making us proud to be a part of the Percheron team.  

Efficiency and accountability to achieve success motivate us. That's why we use an integrated service model. Every project requires concept development, knowing the ownership of land, who owns the surface and mineral rights, acquiring those rights, surveying the land, providing design, drawings, and schematic, and understanding the environmental impacts.  

By implementing this integrated approach, we: 

• Align schedules between disciplines 
• Use consistent reporting software and invoices 
• Do the work one time and share between groups 

This is who we are. We do it well, and we do it right.  So when you Think Percheron, Think Integrated!