Utilities are under increasing pressure to strengthen grid resilience, reduce wildfire risk, manage vegetation more proactively, and make faster decisions across complex and expanding service territories. Yet many teams are still working from incomplete, fragmented, or outdated data, making it difficult to see risk clearly, prioritize resources, and act with confidence at scale.
In this Geo Week News webinar, Woolpert will explore how high-definition, high-altitude airborne LiDAR capability — ZEUS — can help utilities move beyond isolated observations and toward a more complete, connected view of their networks.
The session will examine how advanced airborne sensing supports utility operations by capturing dense, high-resolution data across large and complex environments. From powerline corridors and transmission networks to vegetation encroachment, clearance issues, access constraints, terrain-driven exposure, and aboveground infrastructure conditions, ZEUS helps utilities detect what traditional inspection methods may miss and better understand where risk is emerging.
The conversation will also focus on what happens after acquisition. Large-scale LiDAR collection is only the beginning. Woolpert will discuss how ZEUS data is processed, classified, analyzed, and transformed into usable geospatial intelligence through advanced workflows that may include feature extraction, quality control, change detection, GeoAI, and digital twin integration. This processing layer is what turns dense data into decision-ready insight — helping utilities prioritize field work, allocate resources, improve asset visibility, and support long-term resilience planning.
The webinar will connect to a broader shift happening across the geospatial industry: data is no longer just a project deliverable. When captured at higher density and processed with future use in mind, it becomes a reusable strategic asset. For utilities, this creates an opportunity to collect once and process many times — supporting vegetation management, infrastructure planning, risk modeling, emergency response, asset management, and future analytics from the same foundational dataset.
Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how high-altitude LiDAR and advanced geospatial processing can help utilities move from reactive inspection to proactive, data-driven operations. The session will highlight how ZEUS enables broader visibility, faster insight, and more defensible decisions across the utility network — helping teams see what others miss and act before risk becomes disruption.
Speakers
Nathan Hopper, PhD
Discipline Leader, Advanced Sensing and Processing, Woolpert
Joshua Gluckman, PhD
Subject Matter Expert, Woolpert
Aaron Morris, PhD
Global Director of AI, Woolpert
Daniel Kruimel
Director of Sales, Geospatial, Woolpert
