EcoLog Environmental Risk Information Service Ltd. (ERIS) is Canada's provider of property-related environmental risk information. ERIS has forged a reputation for accurate, affordable, and quick-turn-around searches and services for historic and current records related to environmental conditions of a property. We alert owners and environmental professionals of possible environmental problems on a specific site and its neighbouring area. ERIS' breakthrough database reports and synchronous mapping technology can pinpoint “trouble spots” before a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment begins. Clients get a customized and manually verified map showing their property with records clearly highlighted. 

The ERIS system electronically accesses over 430 federal, provincial, and private sector databases containing over 3.1 million current and historical environment records to identify potential environmental threats on Canadian properties. 

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The day to day operations of ERIS involves many challenges - usually regarding the cleaning of collected data as well as the availability of accurate mapping sources to aid in locating and verifying site addresses for our clients. The more remote a location the more challenging the task. We use many reference products to verify the data including digital maps, municipal plans, specialized mapping and address software and many hours of manual intervention and manipulation --without affecting the integrity of the data itself.

We also face challenges such as the timely collection of data from our numerous government and private sources in Canada. The primary mandate of our service is to do all the hard, tedious work of gathering, sorting and verifying government and private records and then presenting them to our clients quickly, in an easy to read reference report and map. 

EcoLog ERIS and GIS

In the strictest sense, a GIS (Geographic Information System) is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information (i.e. data identified according to their locations).  A GIS can also convert existing digital information, which may not yet be in map form, into forms it can recognize and use.  For instance, digital satellite images can be analyzed to produce a map like layer of digital information about vegetative or land-use covers.

GIS technology has enhanced the efficiency and analytic power of traditional mapping, and is becoming an essential tool in the effort to understand the effects of environmental hazards.  It also assists in managing and analyzing large volumes of data, allowing for greater understanding of the impacts to our environment that industrial/commercial activity can have. GIS combines many layers of information on a map, in order to analyze and provide solutions to environmental concerns.  The better your information is organized the better your decision making process becomes.

As GIS combines layers of information, ERIS can spatially illustrate to our clients the distribution of environmental sensitive locations and potential risks on both their subject and neighbouring properties.  GIS allows us to capture, analyze, query, update and display geographically referenced environmental information covering a variety of risks.  Incorporating GIS technology allows us to access the most comprehensive and up-to-date information and resources possible.