| InfoTech Lands National Institutes of Health Contract
InfoTech Enterprises, Inc. with offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Tucson, Arizona has been awarded the Image World 2 (IW2) Contract (#263-01-D-0108) by the National Institutes of Health. The IW2 vehicle is a 10 year contract with a $15 billion ceiling.
Under this government wide agency contract (GWAC), InfoTech continues to offer it's geospatial related services and products to Federal and DoD agencies. Like the GSA schedule, it is fast and easy to obtain niche services through sole source or limited competition. However, this vehicle is unique in that it is dedicated to the GIS, remote sensing, and image processing business areas.
It also provides additional price breaks for contracting with InfoTech as a certified small business. InfoTech specializes in IW2 services, which include: Geographic Information Applications and Technologies; Video Conferencing & Web Multimedia Training Solutions; Information Technology Training; GIS Integration, Training and Consulting; Remote Sensing; Image Based Security Systems and Solutions; Distance Learning; Explosive and Drug Detection Systems; Biometric Security; and CAD/CAM. There is also access to GIS and image processing software, high-resolution satellite imagery, and hardware. InfoTech's Team and the NIH IT Acquisition Center (NITAAC) makes it as easy as 1-2-3 for Federal agencies to acquire geospatial solutions.
Information about InfoTech's Team and the contract can be found at http://www.infotech.org/About/iw2.html. For additional information, please contact George Korte (PM) and Veena Rayapareddi in Alexandria, VA at 703-671-1900 or Skip Maselli (Western U.S.) at 520-320-1772.
LizardTech Acquires Altamira's Genuine Fractals Technology
With digital-camera penetration having doubled in 2000 to reach 25 percent of U.S. Internet households, LizardTech Inc. has elected to acquire the Genuine Fractals technology designed by Altamira Group Inc., which will solidify the company's presence in the digital camera and scanner manufacturing market. This transaction allows LizardTech to provide its DjVu and MrSID software solutions to Genuine Fractals' partners, customers and reseller channels, and also grants them access to such leading photography device manufacturers as Olympus, Nikon, and Minolta.
Altamira, headquartered in Burbank, Calif., offers image scaling and resolution-on-demand employed favorably by celebrity photographers, digital artists, and electronic publishers, among others. Genuine Fractals' scaling technology solves problems related to the sizing of photographic images, allowing high-quality images to be sent over the Internet that can be printed up to ten times their original size, with no loss of detail or scope.
LizardTech Inc. provides software that optimizes bandwidth and provides instant access to high-resolution, multipurpose digital images and multimedia content.
For further information, please contact Jim Dielschneider at LizardTech Inc., 821 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98104. Tel: 206-902-2832. E-mail: [email protected].
Regional Water Authority Selects GeoIT To Provide GIS Consulting and Migration Services
The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority (RWA) in New Haven has selected Geographic Information Technology Inc. (GeoIT) to provide GIS implementation services to support RWA's migration to ESRI's new ArcInfo 8 Geodata object environment as part of their land and water pilot project. RWA is adding the new object data modeling capabilities by building upon the previous work performed by BaySys Technologies, which is now a part of GeoIT.
This project will feature several workshops designed to maximize RWA staff involvement in system and model design, plus offering additional training on ArcGIS Water and ArcInfo 8 and the ArcGIS Water model. The second phase of this project will see GeoIT performing a pilot migration of RWA water and land coverage data to the water authority's geographic database.
The Regional Water Authority has existed since 1862, and it has been a political subdivision of the state of Connecticut since 1980. The RWA services 101,000 customers and maintains an estimated 1500 miles of mains, 25 storage tanks, 26 pumping stations and six treatment plants, providing potable water to 12 communities in the metropolitan New Haven area.
GeoIT develops comprehensive enterprise solutions for electric, gas, and water/wastewater utilities, and telecommunications companies worldwide.
For further information, please contact Bart Koenig at Geographic Information Technology Inc., 1620 South Ashland Ave., Green Bay, WI 54304. Tel: (920) 432-1820. E-mail: [email protected].
GeoIT and CES International Form Alliance for Outage Management
Geographic Information Technology Inc. (GeoIT) has teamed up with CES International to merge the operations resource management system known as Centricity(tm) with GIS platforms commonly used in the utility industry. These advanced capabilities are expected to combine Centricity's advanced outage management functionality with the integration of various GIS platforms, OMS, and other supporting systems.
CES International supplies real-time software solutions for distribution utilities. The company's flagship product is Centricity, an operations resource management (ORM) system. GeoIT develops comprehensive enterprise solutions for electric, gas, and water/wastewater utilities, and telecommunications companies worldwide.
For further information, please contact Cate McCaslin at Geographic Information Technology Inc., 101 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, CO 80112. Tel: (303) 708-9355. E-mail: [email protected].
Terrain Navigator 3D: Real 3D, Just Like the Movies!
Maptech has added two new Super 3D features to its Terrain Navigator CD-ROM package. Yes, those funky 3D glasses are included, but not required. By wearing them, however, the topographic maps jump out at the viewer in true 3D-movie-like fashion. The visual impact gives one a deeper appreciation and understanding of the lie of the land. But glasses are not needed with the other, equally vivid 3D options. For example, it is possible to see two images side-by side -- one in 3D and the other as a flat topo map -- or else view the entire map in 3D from any angle. These new 3D features give hikers, hunters, fishermen and professional map users a better tool to plan any outdoor adventure or project.
Waypoints or routes can be automatically loaded directly into or from a GPS unit, and one can scroll seamlessly from map to map -- or view individual maps -- complete with collar information. The software allows users to print personalized versions of a genuine USGS topographic map, record favorite outdoor sites, and bookmark the map for instant retrieval at a later time.
There are 30 Terrain Navigator super regions nationwide. Each region averages 3500 genuine USGS topographic maps in both 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 map scales. Individual CDs are also available for sections of a state. System requirements are Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000, Pentium-class CPU or better, CD-ROM drive, 32MB of RAM, and a 256-color monitor with a mouse or drawing equivalent.
For further information, please contact Martin Fox at MAPTECH, 655 Portsmouth Ave., Greenland, NH 03840. Tel: (888) 433-8500. Web address: www.maptech.com.
RasterVect Converts Scanned Paper Drawings into CAD Programs
RasterVect Software has released its vectorizer package RasterVect 4.3 for Windows, a program that lets users convert uneditable, scanned paper drawings into accurate vector files for editing in any CAD program. With this software, one can transform raster drawings into a vector format. Raster drawings can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. The target vector formats (DXF, WMF, EMF) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as AutoCAD, Corel Draw, and many others.
Viewing tools include zooming, scrolling, and color selection. RasterVect has the ability to automatically recognize orthogonal and inclined lines, as well as arcs and circles, and it fully supports a number of raster and vector formats. RasterVect can also transform gray and colored images into black-and-white for subsequent recognition, and can correct union points of lines, arcs and circles.
RasterVect is designed to work on all Windows platforms. It is a replacement for traditional tracing and digitizing, and provides a way to get a paper drawing into any CAD program for quick and easy editing.
For further information, please contact Dmitry Sknarev at RasterVect Software, Tupoleva 14 549, Togliatti, Russian Federation, 445040. Tel: (7) 8482-324347. E-mail: [email protected].
3M Picks GeoMedia WebMap for Transportation Asset Management System
Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions has announced the selection of GeoMedia(r) WebMap as the Internet GIS component for 3M's Transportation Asset Management System (TAMS). TAMS is a comprehensive system that inventories and manages the maintenance and replacement of traffic signs, pavement markings, and other transportation infrastructure components.
Because GeoMedia WebMap supports various GIS data formats, it allows TAMS to integrate disparate GIS data sources without translation. 3M's customers can use TAMS to collect, manage and query highway asset data to meet regulatory requirements that include GASB-34, the federal regulation that governs management of public infrastructure assets.
Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions develops, markets, and supports core geospatial products that address a wide range of market segments.
For further information, please contact Shelley Miller at Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala. Tel: (800) 791-3357 within the U.S., or (256) 730-7191 outside the U.S. Web address: www.intergraph.com/imgs.
Intergraph Launches GeoMedia Transportation Products
Two new products from Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions -- GeoMedia(r) Transportation and GeoMedia Transportation Analyst -- give transportation organizations the ability to transform their GIS (geographic information systems) into a spatially enabled asset management information system using linear referencing and dynamic segmentation technology.
GeoMedia Transportation can retrieve business and project data from virtually any GIS database or CAD file within an enterprise by using GeoMedia's data server technology. This means users can access multiple databases simultaneously, including Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MGE, MapInfo, MicroStation design files, ArcInfo coverages, and ArcView shape files.
GeoMedia Transportation Analyst lets users create map features, including pavement conditions, accident data, and average daily traffic reports. This information helps plan improvements in deteriorating assets, identify where an organization is spending its money, and provides critical information clearly and accurately to all participants working on a project.
Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions develops, markets, and supports core geospatial products that address a wide range of market segments.
For further information, please contact Shelley Miller at Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala. Tel: (800) 791-3357 within the U.S., or (256) 730-7191 outside the U.S. Web address: www.intergraph.com/imgs.
Intermap Announces mPOWER3 Contract
Intermap Technologies Inc. recently signed a contract with mPOWER3, one of the largest digital imaging companies in the United States, to supply precision digital elevation data for all of Los Angeles County. Intermap will provide detailed, high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) for use in the precision rectification (removal of mapping errors) of airborne digital images.
The images derived from this project will provide the county up-to-date, accurate planning and engineering map sets. These Intermap DEMs will also be available to the commercial market through Intermap's GLOBAL terrain store.
Intermap Technologies creates digital maps of the Earth's surface that are used in a wide range of applications, including planning and engineering projects, navigation systems, and to enrich digital images from satellite and airborne systems.
For further information, please contact Brian Bullock at Intermap Technologies Inc., 9785 Maroon Circle, Englewood, CO 80112. Tel: (303) 708-0955.
ERDAS(r) Waives ArcView Licensing Fee for ESRI Educational Programs
ERDAS(r) Inc. has elected to waive the ArcView Image Analysis licensing fee for schools that take part in either ESRI's Higher Education or K-12 District Site License programs, making this sophisticated tool available at no cost to all participants. ERDAS developed ArcView Image Analysis in collaboration with ESRI.
ArcView Image Analysis is a software extension that provides a direct path from ERDAS IMAGINE(r) to ArcView GIS for users with complex geographic imaging and processing needs, serving up image data types and other remote sensing data. Prior to reaching this waiver agreement with ESRI, colleges and universities participating in ESRI's University Site License and University LAB KIT programs were required to purchase additional licenses to gain access to the ArcView Image Analysis extension.
The ArcView Image Analysis extension can supplement GIS analysis in many cross-application areas, including forestry, natural resource management, agriculture, environmental assessment, infrastructure management, and environmental engineering.
For further information, please contact ERDAS by telephone at (404) 248-9000, or visit the company's web site at www.erdas.com.
VARGIS Selected for New York's Statewide Mapping Project
The New York Office for Technology (OFT) has awarded its statewide digital ortho-imagery program to VARGIS LLC. VARGIS will lead a multi-participant team to create one- and two-foot-pixel-resolution digital ortho-imagery for the state. Collection of new aerial imagery to support the program will begin in spring 2001 along the lower Hudson Valley. The VARGIS team for New York includes Triathlon Ltd (British Columbia), 3001 Inc. (La.), North West Group (Alberta), and Atlantic Technologies LLC (Ala.).
Ortho-images are digital aerial image maps that have been ortho-rectified to remove photographic distortion introduced by sensor distortion and ground relief. These ortho-images will be used by many federal, state, local and private organizations to improve the effectiveness of resource and land management operations.
VARGIS manages the acquisition, quality assurance and delivery of digital ortho-photography to government and commercial clients.
For further information, please contact VARGIS LLC at 208 Elden St., Herndon, VA 20170. Tel: (703) 834-0225. E-mail: [email protected].
M.J. Harden Associates Involved in Two New Projects
The photogrammetry division of M.J. Harden Associates Inc. (MJH) was recently awarded two mapping contracts. The first is to provide digital mapping services for the twin cities of Wahpeton, N.D., and Breckenridge, Minn., for the St. Paul District Army Corps of Engineers. The second is to provide digital mapping of Bush Airfield in Augusta, Ga., In addition to detailed mapping of the entire airport site, MJH will also perform obstruction surveys of the four runway ends.
MJH is a geographic information technology firm specializing in aerial photography, photogrammetric mapping, GIS, and information technology services.
For further information, please contact Don Cleveland at M.J. Harden Associates Inc., 1019 Admiral Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64106. Tel: (816) 889-1113. E-mail: [email protected].
Colorado's Merrick & Co. Awarded Multiple Contracts
Merrick & Company has been awarded contracts by the city of Norman, Okla., the city of Boulder, Colo., and the Tallahassee-Leon County (Fla.) Joint Consortium to provide assorted photogrammetric and GIS services. In Norman, Merrick will update the existing planimetric and digital ortho base map for the city's jurisdictional boundaries. In Boulder, Merrick will use GPS equipment to accurately place utility features into the city's GIS system. The Tallahassee-Leon County joint project requires Merrick to update its existing planimetric and topographic databases and deliver all data in ESRI's ArcInfo 8.0 format.
For further information, please contact Merrick & Company, Aurora, Colo. Tel: (303) 745-0964. Web address: www.merrick.com.
More than 12 Million U.S. 2000 Census Maps Labeled by MapText
To date, the U.S. Census Bureau has created more than 12 million different maps to support Census 2000. To produce these high-quality maps and meet a demanding time schedule, the Census Bureau called on MapText Inc. to provide computer software for automatically placing on their maps such details as the names of streets, parks, rivers, political entities, and census block numbers. Names were required to be positioned in a totally automated manner so as to provide clear visual association between them and the labeled feature, without overprinting or ambiguity. MapText's Text Placement System(tm) (TPS) software was integrated directly into the Census Bureau's Single MIM-Based Integrated Mapping System (SMIMS).
For centuries, labeling a map's features has been one of the most time-consuming and costly aspects of map making and, until recent years, had defied all attempts at computer automation. MapText's software allowed the Census Bureau to produce its maps within minutes, compared to the hours it would have taken if done by traditional means. TPS(tm) places location names on a map by using the same rules followed by expert cartographers. Names are positioned in a conflict-free manner, without text-on-text or text-on-feature overprinting.
MapText uses geographic information systems (GIS) to produce such products as street, county, highway, cadastral, utility or contour maps, as well as nautical and aeronautical charts.
For further information, please contact Herbert Freeman at MapText Inc., Plainsboro, N.J. Tel: (609) 716-7552. Web address: www.maptext.com.
German Association Certifies SICAD-UT Network Information System
The Deutsche Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (German Association on Gas and Water) (DVGW) has awarded its test mark to SICAD-UT's technical applications for gas and water networks. The DVGW carried out a series of independent tests on software applications within the scope of its certification procedure. SICAD-UT's network information system met all the requirements set by DVGW, based on national and international guidelines and standards.
As an independent technical association, the DVGW takes an active role as the voice of the user. Certification ensures dynamic adaptation of software applications to technological developments and, at the same time, guarantees that requirements of the utility industry are always reflected in its reviewed products. Successful DVGW certification means that SICAD UTILITIES, responsible for developing and maintaining SICAD-UT, was able to meet the utility industry's increasing demands for certified software products, and did so ahead of schedule.
The headquarters of SŸdhessische Gas und Wasser AG in Darmstadt was an appropriate venue for the official handover of the DVGW test mark. With some 600 employees, SŸdhessische Gas und Wasser supplies 320,000 inhabitants with drinking water, and more than 100,000 households with natural gas. It is also involved in district heating, and in wastewater disposal.
SICAD Geomatics GmbH & Co. is devoted exclusively to development, marketing and sales activities for geographical information systems, using its products for infrastructure projects that include utilities and power suppliers, and for municipalities and telecommunication companies.
For further information, please contact Andrea Schmitz at SICAD Geomatics, Munich, Germany. Tel: (49) 89-636-44731. E-mail: [email protected].
MapViewerTM 4: Revolutions in Thematic Map Making
Golden Software Inc. has released MapViewer(tm) Version 4, a thematic map-making software package that creates high-quality, professional maps. MapViewer 4 can produce color prism, hatch, pie, symbol, pin and many other map types. Three new map types have been added to MapViewer 4, as well as the ability to assign classes to the pin map. MapViewer 4 supports a full projection library, including more than 25 projections and 200 datums.
Three new organization managers allow the user to easily view and edit all object and layer properties.
MapViewer 4 also supports queries for all map types, and with any data file type. MapViewer is a 32-bit program that operates with Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT, requiring a minimum of 12MB RAM and 22MB hard-disk space.
For further information, please contact Golden Software Inc., 809-14th St., Golden, CO 80401. Tel: (303) 279-1021. E-mail: [email protected].
Sidwell Receives Two Contracts
The Sidwell Company will host a GIS data web site for the city of Sioux City, Iowa, using ArcIMS(tm) technology by ESRI to provide around-the-clock access to parcel data, property-tax and property-appraisal data, and digital aerial photography files. This contract represents an extension of the services the company already provides to the Sioux City/Woodbury County GIS project.
Kane County (Ill.) has tapped Sidwell to provide photogrammetric services that include ground control, new aerial photography, and countywide digital orthophotos and topographic mapping at two-foot-contour intervals.
For further information, please contact Karen Fouts at The Sidwell Company, St. Charles, Ill. Tel: (630) 549-1000. E-mail: [email protected].
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