| Intermap Announces $870,751 US STAR-3i Mapping Projects
Intermap Technologies Inc. and its prime contractor EarthWatch Incorporated of Longmont, Colorado announced they have received contract extensions totaling $870,571 US for sophisticated digital elevation mapping in South America, bringing Intermap's current contract there to more than $1.9 million. The contracts are additions to work in several South America countries that was announced previously.
"We are very pleased this work continues our strong working relationship with EarthWatch," said Brian Bullock, Intermap President and CEO. "EarthWatch recognizes the unique capabilities of our STAR-3i Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technology in meeting their mapping needs. In South America, the ability to collect large amounts of high accuracy data in a very efficient manner combined with STAR-3i's cloud penetrating capability makes it ideal for their needs".
The DEM products collected will have a data point every 10m and each point will have a vertical accuracy of 3 meters. All of the new Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and Ortho-rectified Radar Imagery (ORRI) data will be added to Intermap's GLOBAL Terrain store (www.globalterrain.com), where it will be available for sale off-the-shelf.
Mr. Bullock added that all the required permits are in place and with this additional work, STAR-3i will be dedicated to work in South America for the fourth quarter.
For more information, contact Intermap at www.intermaptechnologies.com.
GeoIT Adds Intergraph Capabilities, Opens Wisconsin Office
GeoIT, a KEMA Company, has opened a new office in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to serve as its Intergraph Implementation Unit. This unit will provide application development services and customization of Intergraph FRAMME for utility and telecommunications clients and offer implementation support for Intergraph's next generation of G-Industry products.
"Intergraph capabilities are an important addition to GeoIT's portfolio", said William Nantell, GeoIT's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Our ability to provide development and integration services to Intergraph customers complements our established implementation capacity with regard to Smallworld GIS, ESRI's ArcInfo products, and Autodesk's VISION* platform."
GeoIT has hired Kenneth Lenser to manage the new Intergraph Implementation Unit and to act as a Project Manager for GeoIT. Mr. Lenser comes to GeoIT from Analytical Surveys, Inc.'s Wisconsin office (formerly Intelligraphics), where he managed software development and customization efforts for Intergraph users. His team of software analysts and programmers includes Brad Eckrose, Dean Peterson, and Dan Prowse. In total, the unit has more than 40 years of utility GIS experience.
"This expansion of GeoIT (and KEMA Consulting) enables us to provide both strategic consulting and integration services to Intergraph users and to those utilities that desire to make Intergraph their GIS of choice," said GeoIT's CEO, William L. Folchi.
GeoIT's Waukesha location will also serve as the local office for William D. Nantell, Vice President - Sales and Marketing, as well as Gary S. Miller, Senior Consultant, and Todd Rhodes, Consultant. Miller and Rhodes are both assigned to GeoIT's Strategic Consulting business unit.
GeoIT, now part of KEMA Consulting, is a rapidly growing, AM/FM/GIS consulting company and an industry leader in planning, developing and implementing enterprise-wide GIS solutions for electric, gas and water/wastewater utilities and telecommunications companies. GeoIT provides a unique combination of economic, management, and technical consulting expertise that enables our clients to successfully implement enterprise solutions that result in higher profitability, better operational efficiency, and better customer service.
For more information, contact Ken Lenser at (262) 717-9111 or via email at [email protected], or Cate McCaslin, Marketing and Communications Manager at (303) 708-9355 x107, or via email at [email protected].
INFRASCOPE ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH GIS SOFTWARE DEVLOPER ESRI
ESRI's GIS software provides infrascope with rapid access to infrastructure information.
Infrascope (www.infrascope.com), an applications solutions provider (ASP) for the geographical information systems (GIS) industry, announced a strategic alliance with GIS software developer ESRI. The infrascope ASP is a complete platform for the collection, management and delivery of infrastructure information.
ESRI's ArcSDE and ArcIMS are two of the applications infrascope has implemented to accelerate access to infrastructure information. ArcSDE software expedites the creation of multi-user geodatabases while ArcIMS provides the foundation for disseminating high-end GIS and mapping services via the Internet. Powered by ESRI's flexible GIS engine, the software helps infrascope better organize and manage information geographically.
Timothy Pletcher, co-founder and CEO of infrascope, said, "The ESRI software package is a significant addition to infrascope's application architecture. ESRI's technology will heighten the speed of access, retrieval, quality and accuracy of data in the infrascope ASP. We are thrilled to incorporate such a well-respected and quality GIS product into our technology."
"GIS is a technology that supports many different industries and many different applications. ESRI realizes the benefit from professional service companies, such as infrascope, that deliver solutions and applications based on our tools," said Kevin Daugherty, strategic accounts manager for ESRI. "Infrascope demonstrates leadership in delivering applications using the ASP model, a methodology for ESRI GIS software that is just beginning to accelerate."
For more information, contact INFRASCOPE at: (www.infrascope.com)
EUROSENSE to Distribute Satellus satellite image products
Satellus and EUROSENSE have agreed that EUROSENSE will have retail rights on Satellus range of products from Earth remote sensing satellites. The agreement widens EUROSENSE's product range, and makes Satellus products more available in Continental Europe.
Satellus is one of the leading European suppliers of geographical and environmental information and services from Earth remote sensing satellites. Satellus, which is part of Swedish Space Corporation Group, has a long tradition in production and marketing of products and information based on satellite data from many satellites, such as Landsat, SPOT, ERS, Radarsat and IKONOS. Satellus has offices in Stockholm and in Kiruna, Sweden and a wide range of resellers and agents throughout the world.
EUROSENSE is one of Europe's most prominent commercial remote sensing organizations, making use of data from both satellites and aerial photography to produce highly accurate and technologically high-grade solutions in response to client requirements. EUROSENSE, with headquarters in Wemmel, Belgium, is well represented through EUROSENSE's subsidiaries in Germany, The Netherlands, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Geographical information is used more and more in a wide range of applications: Urban and Regional Planning, Cadastral Mapping, Agriculture, Forestry, Telecommunication, Risk Management, Real Estate, Geo-Marketing, Tourism etc.
For more information, contact: Satellus: Mr Jšrgen Hartnor, tel + 46 (0)980 67100, e-mail [email protected], website: www.satellus.se; EUROSENSE: Mr Diedier Mendel, tel + 32 246 07 000, e-mail [email protected], website: www.eurosense.com
Tripod Data Systems Adds Road Layout to New Survey Pro CE 2.0
Tripod Data Systems announced the release of Survey Pro for Windows CE version 2.0. This version adds road layout and slope staking routines to the program. Road layout gives surveyors the ability to enter road definitions and then stake the road based on those definitions. Slope staking allows users to locate and stake catch points given a center line and a slope.
"With the graphical viewing tools that we have added, Survey Pro's road layout provides functionality that no other road staking tool can match," said TDS Product Manager Eric Hall. "We have also simplified the road definition rules and at the same time made the road tools more flexible. I think the results will please our customers."
Road Layout gives surveyors editors for entering horizontal and vertical alignments as well as templates that describe the road cross-section, widenings and super elevations. Because of the big screen and road viewing tools of the Ranger handheld computer running the Windows CE operating system, surveyors can easily visualize the road. The graphical viewers make road entry and editing easier to understand and act as a valuable error checking system. Once the road is defined, Survey Pro provides a complete set of road staking tools that use the road file for guidance. Staking the road is easier because the road file contains the complete definition of the road. Any station can be staked or slope staked. Offset values are automatically set by the templates.
The slope staking routines take an alignment definition and let the user slope stake at any station along the alignment. Unlike the road slope staking routine, the slope staking routine requires the user to enter an offset for the hinge point and to define the slope to use for the operation. This form of slope staking is extremely useful for simple operations where a complete road definition is not required.
Survey Pro CE version 2.0 also includes many other enhancements to GPS and Robotic functions. For current Survey Pro for Windows CE users, the new road layout and slope staking routines are a free upgrade. Survey Standard users can purchase an upgrade to Survey Pro to get the new routines as well as all the advanced tools that Survey Pro provides.
For more information, contact Tripod Data Systems at 541-753-9322, by fax 541-757-7439, email [email protected] or web at www.tdsway.com.
Research Systems, Inc. Announces Worldwide Release of ENVI¨ 3.4
Research Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, announced the worldwide release of version 3.4 of ENVI, the Environment for Visualizing Images.
ENVI is easy to use remote sensing software for data visualization, advanced data analysis, feature extraction, and map production using satellite and aerial images, as well as GIS data.
Versions of ENVI 3.4 are available for Microsoft Windows¨ 95/98/NT/2000¨, Macintosh¨, and UNIX¨ platforms, including support for Red Hat Linux on the Compaq Alpha platform.
ENVI 3.4 is a major release that includes many new features and enhancements. The improvements were based on numerous requests from the user base as well as unique innovations. Some new features include:
* Menu and display enhancements making access to commonly used functions faster and easier.
* Input/output capability has increased dramatically with support for images larger than 2GB. This version also added automatic precision geocoding of any data (such as HDF) containing a Lat/Lon layer, sensor specific radiometric calibration, and support for additional formats.
* Batch recording and queuing.
* Enhanced tabular GCP collection environment, including overlaying GCP's over vector data.
* The addition of a Neural Net classifier, providing more powerful classification.
* Improved Topographic Analysis with additional topographic measures and feature extraction.
* New raster GIS functions such as image segmentation, majority analysis, buffer zone creation and line-of-sight analysis.
For more information contact, Research Systems, Inc. at www.ResearchSystems.com. Contact: Michelle Asher Research Systems Tel: 303-786-9900 Email: [email protected]
Kodak Launches Kodak Earth Imaging Products: A Business-Focused E-commerce Site for High Resolution Earth Imagery
Kodak's Commercial & Government Systems division (C&GS) announced the launch of a site for the on-line sale of high resolution color and black-and-white earth imagery. The new Kodak Earth Imaging Products (EIP) Web site can be found at http://www.kodak.com/go/earthimaging.
Currently, aerial imagery is available on-line from over 30 North American major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and Kodak plans to steadily increase this number to 95 by mid 2001 with the addition of imagery offerings from a number of suppliers from across the continent and around the world.
Industry analysts predict the earth imaging information market will exceed $1 billion over the next three years. Kodak EIP will meet the needs of this market by offering many different levels of precision image data from one-meter black-and-white to six-inch resolution color. Kodak will output aerial imagery on CD with viewer or high quality paper prints.
The aerial images available on-line of the North American MSAs are the result of an agreement that Kodak announced last year with Hauts-Monts International Inc., a leading remote sensing imagery provider headquartered in Quebec, Canada. This imagery is a historical first in scope, precision, and quality consistency throughout the set. With this agreement, Kodak has the exclusive rights for Internet sale of Hauts-Monts images marketed under the CitiPix brand name by Altaphoto, Inc., the Hauts-Monts U.S. division located in Columbia, Md. Earlier this month, C&GS announced an agreement with Compagnia Generale Ripreseaeree S.p.A (CGR) of Genoa, Italy to market high resolution aerial images of Italy through Kodak's new Web site.
"We are proud to launch Kodak Earth Imaging Products," said David Ledgerwood, vice president of C&GS. "This newest offering via kodak.com will not only revolutionize how high resolution earth imagery is bought and sold but expand its use. We also take the complexity and frustration out of the search for the best imagery so that image information solutions can be delivered quickly to enable more effective customer decision making."
The company stated that the new e-commerce site opens new opportunities for both buyers and sellers of high resolution earth imagery. For buyers (in numerous industries such as architecture, engineering, construction, telecommunications, utilities, transportation, insurance, travel, real estate and local/state/federal government), Kodak EIP represents an easy-to-use, time and cost-effective solution for the procurement of earth imagery as sophisticated as six-inch color resolution. Image search and procurement is all Web-based, creating a simple buying experience that is facilitated through the use of familiar credit card and purchase order fulfillment procedures. With easy to use and intuitive search capabilities, customers can shop on-line with confidence that they will receive the right product at the right price, while benefiting from a reduced cycle time made possible by e-commerce technology.
For earth imagery and data providers (such as aerial flyers and geospatial map companies), Kodak EIP represents a new revenue growth opportunity by creating a new sales channel which reaches more potential customers. Providers of imagery can also realize significant cost of sales savings through reduced individual marketing expenditures.
Kodak's Commercial & Government Systems unit provides innovative image information solutions for business and government intelligence needs. Examples include aerial imaging, digital imaging systems for commercial imaging satellites, and optical systems for land and space telescopes.
For more information, contact: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; COMMERCIAL & GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS; 1447 ST PAUL STREET; ROCHESTER, NY 14653-7129 http://www.kodak.com.
HOME |
