Gis Design S.r.l.

GIS Design S.r.l. was founded in November 2002 based on the idea of brothers Filippo and Fabio Colombrita to combine Filippo's expertise in GIS and road, railway, and airport infrastructure—developed during his Ph.D. in Road Infrastructure Engineering—with Fabio's technological and IT skills acquired in the late 1990s. Their goal was to create a GIS laboratory to support companies and industry operators.

GIS Design S.r.l. is a well-established company with over 20 years of experience in supporting airport authorities in airport safety, ensuring compliance with international standards, high-quality certification (ISO 9001:2015), and technological innovation.

Today, the company is a leader in surveying and BIM digitization services in the airport sector and is currently carrying out a major surveying and digitization project for Rome Fiumicino Airport, Italy's largest airport, on behalf of ADR Spa. Using cutting-edge technologies such as 3D Laser Scanners and GIS systems, the process includes asset mapping, condition assessment, and the creation of federated BIM models.

For years, GIS Design S.r.l. has been conducting air navigation obstacle surveys for some of Italy's most important airports, supporting airport managers throughout the entire procedural process until approval.

By utilizing 3D Geographic Information Systems, specialized in-house software, and high-efficiency operational procedures (such as high-performance selective cartographic processing), GIS Design is able to meet various airport safety requirements, particularly:

Generation of obstacle limitation and identification surfaces (compliant with EASA CS-ADR-DSN);

Census of air navigation obstacles within the airport management jurisdiction (as per EASA Decision AMC & GM for Aerodromes) and creation of obstacle monographs;

Implementation of Electronic Terrain and Obstacles Data (eTOD), according to EASA Decision AMC & GM for Aerodromes and Eurocontrol Terrain and Obstacle Data Manual, through the development of a 3D Geographic Information System for representing and managing air navigation obstacles and restriction surfaces;

Monitoring of the efficiency of obstacle marking and lighting systems (EU Regulation 139/2014 Surroundings - ENAC Letter Prot. 12/12/2016-0128098-P), including real-time fault detection using automatic monitoring systems;

Elaboration of constraint and obstacle limitation maps, in compliance with ENAC guidelines;

Identification of potential air navigation obstacles through high-precision GPS surveys, satellite imagery, aerial photogrammetry, digital cartography, LiDAR surveys, and creation of digital terrain models (DTM) and digital surface models (DSM);

Monitoring of airport surroundings (Regulation EU No. 139/2014 – EASA ADR.OPS.B.075), including:

Obstacle-induced turbulence;

Presence of hazardous lights;

Glare caused by large and highly reflective surfaces;

Sources of non-visible radiation;

Non-aeronautical ground lights that could pose a safety risk to aircraft, etc.;

Monitoring of wildlife hazard sources (EASA ADR.OPS.B.020) using satellite imagery and the structuring of a GIS-based management system.

To address these challenges, GIS Design has designed and developed the ALBATROS software for the management and analysis of air navigation obstacles.