Andrew Brenner is a Vice-President for Solution Engineering for NV5 and leads the Forestry and Water Programs. He works closely with the acquisition, analytics and enterprise GIS teams to support projects that cover the full range of geospatial solutions including created digital twins from the building to the landscape scales. He has been in the geospatial arena for over thirty years, focusing on the utilization of geospatial data and tools to solve natural resource management challenges. To this end he works with imagery, LiDAR, and other sensors to create information that can be integrated with GIS decision making systems to manage resource effectively.
Prior to joining the private sector 24 years ago he worked in natural resource research heading the GIS and Remote Sensing Research Facility at the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Physics from Edinburgh University and a Bachelors in Soil Science from the University of Reading UK.