NV5 Global

Geospatial services that derive tree height, canopy cover and stem density from lidar and hyperspectral data.

Inventory & mappingHollywood, FL, United States

NV5 Global is a US engineering and geospatial services firm headquartered in Hollywood, Florida. The NV5 Geospatial division produces forest metrics directly from LiDAR point clouds, hyperspectral imagery, and orthoimagery, with outputs covering tree height, canopy cover, stem density, and crown area for timber management, habitat conservation, and survey planning. The geospatial business expanded through the 2019 acquisition of Quantum Spatial.

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  1. #04412 May 2026 · News

    Open-Source GeoAgent Layers LLM Agents onto leafmap, geemap and QGIS

    Qiusheng Wu has released GeoAgent, an open-source shared AI agent layer for geospatial Python packages including leafmap, geemap, geoai, STAC and NASA Earthdata, with a QGIS plugin called OpenGeoAgent. Built on Strands Agents, it lets each library expose its tools to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, LiteLLM or Ollama models without each project maintaining its own agent stack. To avoid confusion: this is the open-source opengeos/GeoAgent, not NV5's proprietary GeoAgent™ launched in February. For teams already using these tools in inventory or remote sensing, the cost of adding LLM-augmented workflows just dropped.