In Geomatec, we strive to maintain the highest level of scientific and professional integrity among our staff. Our current staff consists of skilled scientists and technical specialists in the following areas: Geography and urban planning, Remote Sensing, Environment, Geology, Civil engineering, Mapping and Geodesy, networking and E-commerce, in addition to computer science and internet technology.

Geomatec may also call upon researchers from the Departments within Bahrain Centre for Studies and Research, who specialize in other areas such as economics and social studies, energy, and marine ecology. Moreover, there are specialists in various other fields in the local universities and other government organizations with whom Geomatec maintains a close working relationship.

Furthermore, Geomatec is committed towards manpower development and capacity building with the aim of training and maintaining a team of qualified nationals in the geo-spatial technology field.

Hardware and Software:

In addition to the full suit of ESRI GIS and mapping software which most of the applications are build on, Geomatec has expertise and working knowledge with the following major GIS and remote sensing software:

• Intergraph: (Geomedia, MGE, and softcopy photogrametry tools)
  
  
• Bently software
  
  
• ERDAS (Remote Sensing Image processing software)
  
  
• ER Mapper (Remote Sensing Image processing software)
  
  
• Oracle
  
  
• Multi-media and 3-D graphics software.

Our main hardware components include a Large Anatech scanner (eagle 4080 ET), a state of the art plotter (Roland High-Fi Jet), high-end NT workstations and PCs in addition to a high-end photogrametry workstation from Intergraph.

The network configuration at Geomatec consists of the latest CAT5&6 at 100 Mbps connection speed with 4 main dedicated servers (web application, data server, mail server, and a back-up server). The internet connection is through a dedicated leased line at 250 kbps.