Western Heritage Information

Western Heritage (WH) was founded in 1990 by employees of the Saskatchewan Research Council. At the time, we were all specialists in cultural heritage management. Since then we have become much more. We develop innovative, science based solutions to the needs of our customers We do this by leveraging our years of experience as a company and the deep expertise of our specialists. Our head office is located in Saskatoon but our outlook has always been global. We have expanded into remote sensing and gis services, drones and software development. We have also opened up offices in Alberta and Manitoba, and have a presence in Chile. We are ISO 9001:2015 certified and have an Energy Safety Canada COR. Broadly our services can be grouped into: Cultural Heritage Services and Drone/UAV servicess. Our Cultural Heritage Services include archaeology, heritage management, indigenous engagement and consultation support, geoarchaeology and archaeological geophysics (GPR and Magnetics). We have delivered these services across Canada. Our drone services include optical, multispectral and thermal surveys of pipeline right of ways, and damage detection services for Crop Insurance. For the former, Included in this area is our environmental monitoring platform or the EFMP. For the later we have developed and commercially applied AI models for detecting cultivated acres and animal damage. We also fly surveys specifically for agriculture. We have developed custom software for extracting and analysing data from drones.