Cuatro Conceptos

Cuatro Conceptos is a business group in Bogota, Colombia, that captures, analyzes and models geographic data across Latin America.

The group is made up of four fully Colombian-owned companies. Together they bring more than 150 professionals. Its motto is to model the real world for a multipurpose world. It is a cooperating partner of IPGH.

One company is a consulting firm for geospatial work. It has produced maps covering more than 29 million hectares. It supports land use planning in areas such as water resources, multipurpose cadastre, risk management, geodesy and software. It also builds AI tools and installs continuously operating reference stations (CORS) for positioning.

A second company, LandPeople, works across the whole multipurpose cadastre chain. It does large-scale parcel surveys, builds cadastral databases and checks the quality of maps and cadastral records.

A third company, GeoLatam, is an air operator for special aerial works. These include aerial photography, photogrammetry, geology and seismology for public and private clients. It says it was the first company in Colombia certified under RAC 138 for special aerial works. The group uses crewed aircraft with Leica CityMapper and TerrainMapper sensors, and a LiDAR and camera system. It also flies remotely piloted aircraft with Zenmuse sensors. On the ground and water, it uses terrestrial laser LiDAR, geodetic equipment and a bathymetric sensor.

The fourth company, Carbono y Bosques, has more than 20 years of research in natural sciences and engineering. It works on climate change, ecosystem services and carbon credits.

Services include geomatics and surveying, cadastral and real estate management, social management, environmental land use planning and a software factory called Xpherelab. Project examples include a river buffer zone study in Mocoa, Putumayo.

Services

• Geomatics and surveying
• Cadastral and real estate management
• Social management
• Environmental and productive land use planning
• Software development
• Carbon and forest studies
• Aerial photography
• Aerial photogrammetry
• LiDAR mapping
• Bathymetric surveys