ESG, a global leader in energy SaaS solutions, has officially announced the immediate availability of its Pandell Whitestar integrated solution, which is designed to help energy companies identify and manage land assets using precise geospatial data.
According to certain reports, the stated solution effectively combines advanced land management software, GIS analysis, and location intelligence, concerned with everything from parcels to culture, for optimizing every stage of the process. This it does to significantly enhance land asset life cycle management.
To understand the significance of such a development, we first got to acknowledge that, while energy companies are required to manage complex payments and obligations, they are often limited to incomplete or outdated geospatial data, leading to suboptimal decisions. You see, the sheer lack of comprehensive and up-to-date data makes it difficult to assess assets accurately, while on the other hand, paper-based land rights or manual digitization processes introduce a host of different potential errors and delays.
Fortunately enough, leveraging an integration with Whitestar data-as-a-service™, the Pandell Platform offers a unified solution to address these challenges by providing energy companies a seamless workflow across project evaluation, land acquisition, development, and operations, including complex payment calculations. Hence, with a combined iteration of Pandell and Whitestar advanced paper-to-polygon services, companies can basically automate data entry and speed the time to decisions that matter.
Talk about the given solution on a slightly deeper level, we can begin from its TrueGRID™ geodatabase, where you can come expecting robust and high-fidelity basemap, developed using authoritative survey plats from all land survey types and layers in the U.S., The stated geodatabase bank upon these basis to provide companies with critical information, and therefore, support informed decisions.
Next up, there is an assortment of being able to access site selection and land acquisition tools. These tools, for instance, include Whitestar Energy Layer™, which is an extensive GIS database of spatial and attribute data for powerlines, pipelines, and facilities across all North American commodities.
Apart from that, we have Whitestar ParcelsHD+™ that happens to be a national repository of normalized parcel data with up to 340 attributes for 3,143 counties. This repository can help companies make data-driven decisions on site selection and land acquisition.
“This is an exciting time for our customers as Whitestar data is now available within Pandell LandWorks™ and Pandell Projects™,” said Laura Holt, VP of Pandell Products and Services at ESG. “Whitestar precise geospatial data helps energy companies to optimize land acquisition and management and enhance operational efficiency.”
Then, there is an automatic mapping facility. The stated facility leverages Whitestar detailed and continuously updated land grid data for accurate and efficient mapping of land assets against the most reliable land grid in the industry. It also dramatically reduces dependency on third-party corrections, and at the same time, ties updates directly to the data source so to achieve faster adjustments and timely changes in land ownership, boundary adjustments, and legal descriptions.
Moving on to the solution’s vertical capabilities for renewables-focused tools, they include an integration of Whitestar CultureHD™ layer with the Pandell Land and GIS Suite, an integration which is well-equipped to offer users hyper-contextualization and key insights for site selection and development, especially for renewable energy projects.
Providing all datasets from Whitestar in one place, the solution even lets you access AI assisted land records. This means you can digitize paper or PDF agreements into a land management system that provides a clear and accurate understanding of land holdings. Such a mechanism can unsurprisingly do a lot to enable quick searching, categorizing, and reporting on agreements. ESG’s dedicated Land Records team also ensures data reliability across regions and land assets.
Rounding up highlights would be a prospect rooted in GIS and mapping. Whenever in-house GIS expertise is lacking, other priorities need attention, or automated mapping fails, ESG’s dedicated team will spring into action by analyzing land data and legal descriptions to create polygons that represent the boundaries of agreements on a map.
As for the availability, Whitestar land data is now available within Pandell LandWorks and Pandell Projects across North America. Having said so, each product, dataset, and service is also accessible individually.
