| LIZARDTECH PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH MCBRIDE AND ASSOCIATES
LizardTech Inc. announced that its MrSID¨ and DjVu¨ product lines are now available through McBride and Associates. McBride and Associates is an industry-leading provider of information technology (IT) products and services. This offering now allows McBride's customers and all federal agencies the ability to order LizardTech's products for high-resolution imagery and documents through McBride's Installation Management/Facilities CAD2 (IM/FCAD2) government contract.
The McBride IM/FCAD2 contract provides the Department of Defense (DOD) and other government agencies leading technologies for facilities management, CAD/GIS, environmental/architectural/structural analysis, mechanical engineering and information resource management applications. It will now be more convenient for federal agencies to quickly order and implement LizardTech's software solutions.
McBride offers systems integration and services for governmental agencies and Fortune 1000 corporations. McBride's industry-leading solutions focuses on the design, development and integration of hardware and software applications including medical, personnel, national intelligence, legal, mail processing, records management/workflow and CAD/GIS. LizardTech develops next-generation software solutions: DjVu for documents, MrSID for photography and MrSID Image Server for quick distribution of mission-critical information via the Internet. Both DjVu and MrSID significantly reduce massive digital files to a fraction of their original size, while maintaining the quality and integrity of the original.
For more information visit the World Wide Web at www.lizardtech.com. LizardTech Europe is located in the Netherlands and can be contacted via e-mail: [email protected]
White River Electric Cooperative Implements Advanced GIS
White River Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (WR), has implemented an advanced geographic information system (GIS) for optimized facility data management and operations. The company is using utility applications developed by Utility Automation Integrators, Inc. (UAI), an ESRI software developer, that provide an integrated automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM)/GIS suite of applications that manages information across the entire utility.
"White River Valley is a terrific example of an electric cooperative succeeding in using GIS," says Mitch Garnett, ESRI. "We are excited by the work of Utility Automation Integrators, which is meeting consumer demands by developing advanced applications that provide a total solution for the electric utility industry."
"GIS gives us many benefits," says Chris Hamon, general manager, White River Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. "We've taken data and applications that previously ran on large mainframe computers and moved them to laptops for a number of different users. We're working smarter, faster, and better using UAI applications and ESRI software."
White River Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., is an electric distribution cooperative serving its members in Taney, Christian, Stone, Douglas, and Ozark counties in Missouri. Formed in 1939, the company has more than 38,000 customers and maintains an infrastructure with 100,000 distribution poles, 5,000 miles of distribution line, and 25,000 transformers.
White River Valley Electric Cooperative has received an immediate payback in employee productivity gains and the elimination of contracted services. The GIS software is used for a variety of applications including seamless mapping, field staking and maintenance, engineering planning, work order management, outage analysis and reporting, and dispatching.
For more information, ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.
Complete GIS Teaching Resource for Academia from CARIS
Discovering GIS.the CARIS way is an educational solution that includes all to the necessary materials and methodology to introduce the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
The package consists of a self-paced workbook and associated datasets centered on a specific GIS analysis project to be conducted using CARIS GIS. This educational solution introduces the basics of geographic spatial theory and its application within a GIS.
Academic Institutions gain a complete curriculum for the introduction of GIS technology to students by Discovering GIS.the CARIS way. With the comprehensive workbook and datasets, Universities, Colleges and High Schools have all the materials and technology necessary to add GIS training courses to their curriculum or to their labs.
Discovering GIS, the CARIS way is organized into ten Lessons. All basic GIS project components are covered in these lessons including project planning, designing of the database, collecting data, managing data, performing analysis, and presenting the results. Each Lesson focuses on one specific stage of the of the GIS project lifecycle and the functions and processes needed to complete that stage.
By completing the project within Discovering GIS.the CARIS way, readers gain basic theoretical and system experience and knowledge enabling them to approach new GIS projects and application areas with confidence.
This educational solution can be applied as a self-study guide in a GIS lab environment or by individuals in an organization. The time taken to complete Discovering GIS.the CARIS way varies from person to person. However, approximately 30 hours is the average time needed for completion.
Users come away with a solid understanding of basic GIS concepts, overview of CARIS GIS functionality and the skills needed to embark on a GIS project of their own.
For more information, contact Sheri Flanagan - Communications Specialist Corporate Marketing CARIS, 264 Rookwood Avenue, Fredericton, NB, E3B 2M2, Canada, Tel: 1-506-458-8533 Fax: 1-506-459-3849
GDF support added to Safe Software's data translation products
Safe Software announced that its FME® and SpatialDirect® products now offer support for GDF (Geographic Data Files). GDF is the new spatial data format standard being adopted by Europe for road network information, routing and GPS.
"The value of Safe's products to our company continues to be enhanced by the addition of support for significant data formats like GDF," said Jay Clark, Product Manager, Utilities at Geographic Data Technology Inc. (GDT) "We are not aware of any other company that offers the GDF support that Safe has," he added.
Using Safe's data translation software products, GDF data can be translated into over 70 different data formats for use in GIS and CAD applications from leading vendors including: Autodesk, Bentley, ESRI, MapInfo, Intergraph, Sicad and Smallworld. GDF support is available from Safe as an extra cost plug-in to be used with premium FME data translation products and SpatialDirect web based data delivery systems. Both Windows and UNIX platforms are supported. Reading support is available now. Writing support is in the final stages of development.
For more information, visit www.safe.com for more details.
Autodesk to Hold First GIS 2000 International User Group
Autodesk, Inc., today announced Autodesk GIS 2000, its first annual international GIS (geographic information systems) user group conference. The event will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, California, September 10-13. Autodesk GIS 2000 includes five days of technical training workshops and three days of presentations, exhibits, and seminars on the future of GIS and successful implementations in place today. Session leaders will include Autodesk executives, industry experts, partners, and customers. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with GIS engineers, colleagues, and fellow users from around the world to share ideas and learn about new Autodesk® and partner solutions that can increase productivity, reduce costs, leverage data throughout the enterprise, and streamline business. The event is being cosponsored by Autodesk GIS partners including CADTEL Systems, a leading software developer for AM/FM/GIS applications; Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products; Kanotech Information Systems Ltd., a leading software developer and provider of AM/FM/GIS solutions and services in the United States and Canada; and Oracle Corporation, the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company.
Presentations by Autodesk's executive staff, including CEO Carol Bartz and Executive Vice President Joe Astroth, will kick off the conference. They will offer insight into the Future of GIS and describe the Autodesk GIS strategy moving forward. Industry visionaries will speak about how new technologies will affect the future business of Autodesk users.
For details and online registration, please visit www.autodesk.com/gisuserconference. The Registration Help Desk can also be contacted by phone: 888-438-8828 or 650-762-2693, fax: 650-558-4150, or e-mail: [email protected].
RouteMAP IMS 2 from ESRI is Now Shipping
ESRI announced that version 2 of RouteMAP Internet Map Server, the affordably priced, Internet mapping, routing, and location services solution, is now shipping. This second release brings many new functions, offers additional data options, enhances performance, and increases user flexibility.
RouteMAP IMS 2 offers more data than previous versions. Users will be able to select one or all optional street data sets for the United States, Europe, and Canada. The U.S. street data, from ESRI Business Partner Geographic Data Technology, Inc. (GDT), has been enhanced for better routing, displays in multiple projections, and now includes Alaska and Hawaii streets and routes. European map data from AND Ltd. performs city-to-city and latitude/longitude-to-longitude/latitude routing. Canadian street data will be provided by DMTI. Users can also choose the North American street data set for routing between the United States and Canada. The optional U. S. business listings data pack from Dun & Bradstreet is available with the U.S. version only.
The business listings may prove beneficial for visitors bureaus as well as Internet service providers (ISPs) and application service providers (ASPs) who can offer maps and location services to their clients via RouteMAP IMS 2.
Another new feature will be the ability to solve the traveling salesman problem by optimizing routes between multiple points. This feature will assist users in such applications as real estate home tours, visits to multiple sites by building inspectors, and many instances where routing to multiple locations is needed. "One great application we see," said Bill McNeil, software manager for RouteMAP IMS, "is within organizations where sales reps in various offices can access RouteMAP IMS on their company Intranet for directions to client visits. This will save time and money."
For more information visit ESRI online at www.esri.com/routemapims or contact ESRI at 1-800-447-9778. Outside the United States, contact your local distributor or visit www.esri.com/international.
PCI Geomatics Brings APEX Version 7.0 to GIS and Remote Sensing Users
PCI Geomatics announced the release of APEX Version 7.0. APEX (Aerial Photo elevation EXtraction) is PCI Geomatics' 3D digital stereo imagery orthorectification and DEM extraction product that supports image-based softcopy applications such as map-making, terrain analysis, and photo interpretation.
APEX Version 7.0 includes optional "stereo-in-window" functionality with smooth roam and is available for use immediately on Windows NT platforms only.
For this release, additional effort was made to fine tune APEX Version 7.0. New capabilities have been added and improvements have been made to the Data Sharing, Orthorectification, Mosaicking, Terrain Extraction, Triangulation, Image Display, and Feature Extraction tools. The ability to import and export GeoTiff images is now available and allows users to do so in all coordinate systems. ESRI ArcGrid terrain files can now be converted to and from APEX terrain files. In addition, shapefiles (both 2D and 3D) can be converted to/from APEX feature databases, preserving all feature attributes.
Orthorectification and mosaicking can now take place within APEX or users may take advantage of OrthoEngine's mosaicking tools. Other attractive additions include the availability of full projection and datum support for a wide range of default and new user-defined systems, feature extraction is now much more user friendly, and a fully automatic interior orientation - no user interaction required!
For more information, contact: Anthony Melihen, Corporate Communications, Tel: (905) 764-0614, Ext.242 , Email: [email protected]
BAE SYSTEMS ADR Announces Contracts
BAE SYSTEMS ADR announced that it has been selected for a multi-contract project covering approximately 730 square miles involving the development of photogrammetric land base and tax parcel data at the multiple scales of 1"=400', 100'and 50' for numerous government clients in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Separate contracts totaling over $967,000 have been awarded to ADR by Lehigh and Northampton Counties, the City of Allentown, and the Lehigh County Authority for services including color aerial photography, airborne and ground based GPS control surveys, aerotriangulation, collection of selected planimetric and topographic map features consisting of road centerlines, hydrology, rail, and digital elevation model data.
Additionally, new color digital orthophotography will be produced at the multiple pixel resolutions of 2', 1', and 6". ADR will also digitize and adjust Lehigh County's tax maps, containing approximately 117,000 parcels, to the newly developed photogrammetric land base. All mapping data will be delivered in Arc/Info Version 8.0 compatible format BAE SYSTEMS ADR was also awarded a contract from LJT & Associates, Inc. in support of the U.S. Navy Public Works Center Yokosuka. This effort will create up-to-date and spatially accurate digital map products (planimetric maps, contour maps, digital terrain models, and digital orthophotography) for various U.S. military installations throughout mainland Japan. The mission of BAE SYSTEMS ADR is to provide responsive, reliable, high quality and cost-effective public works, public utilities, public housing, transportation support, engineering services, and shore facilities planning. Features will be collected for eventual use in the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) GIS environment.
The project team is comprised of the Navy Public Works Center Yokosuka, Japan; LJT & Associates, Inc. Montgomery, Alabama; BAE SYSTEMS ADR, Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Geographic Information Services, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama. And, finally, BAE SYSTEMS ADR announced the award of a $1.0 million U.S. multi-scale photogrammetric Landbase contract with Lebanon County, Pennsylvania and Lebanon City Authority. The Countywide project, covering 363 square miles, involves the assessment of previously acquired aerial photography, geodetic ground control, and aerotriangulation solutions. Completion of aerotriangulation services, compilation of over 18 separate planimetric map features, development of digital elevation model data, and production of digital orthophotography at multiple resolutions is also included. Data will be delivered in an ARC/Info version 7.21 export format.
For more information contact Brian Bienkowski, Marketing Coordinator, BAE SYSTEMS ADR 9285 Commerce Highway, Pennsauken, NJ 08110, Phone: (856) 663-7200, e-mail: [email protected]
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