Press Release
Now Available: ERDAS IMAGINE® V8.7 from Leica Geosystems
17 December 2003
Atlanta, Georgia, USA— Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce that ERDAS IMAGINE® V8.7, the industry’s premier geographic imaging suite, is now shipping worldwide. The latest version of ERDAS IMAGINE features JPEG2000 support (including GeoJP2), improvements to its mosaic tool and a faster, smoother multi-threaded IMAGINE Geospatial Light Table™ (GLT) viewer. ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 is fully compatible with Leica Geosystems’ new process-driven photogrammetric software suite, the Leica Photogrammetry Suite, also available worldwide.
ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 supports the JPEG2000 and GeoJP2 data format developed by Mapping Science, Inc. It adds the capacities to display and create JPEG2000 images in the JPEG2000 format. This improves upon the ability to quickly and easily read geospatially-registered image data in the JPEG2000 format previously offered in ERDAS IMAGINE 8.6.
ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 also features an improved mosaic tool. These improvements include the ability to import/export cut lines, the ability to conduct image smoothing along cut lines, color balance imagery using dodging and support for rotated output sheets.
The new features added to the IMAGINE GLT™ interface expand the efficiency of image exploitation. The expanded use of DirectX 8.1 or higher allows users to roam smoothly through extremely large sets of imagery. The IMAGINE GLT uses multithreaded processors, one for rendering and one for reading data from a disk. This improvement also visually improves zooming and rotation of data.
Other improvements in ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 include:
• Fuzzy Recode for deconflicting land cover classifications
• Dozens of new raster dlls, importers and exporters for seamless data access
• Expanded list of projections, spheroids and datums, including new vertical datum transformations
• Improvements to IMAGINE VirtualGIS® for rendering large amounts of data
The best geographic imaging software in the industry, ERDAS IMAGINE helps drive Leica Geosystems as the industry leader in providing products that power the Geospatial Imaging Chain™ of capturing, referencing, measuring, analyzing, and presenting data in a format that is useful to its customers.
For more information about Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping or its products and services, call: +1 404 248 9000, toll free: +1 877 463 7327, or visit: gis.leica-geosystems.com.
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Phone: +1 404 248 9000 or +1 877 463 7327
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer Partner to Offer QuickBird Imagery Online
Partnership Facilitates Rapid Integration of QuickBird Imagery Into Real Estate, Asset Tracking and GIS Applications
LONGMONT, Colo. and WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 12, 2004 - DigitalGlobe® and GlobeXplorer® LLC, a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC), have joined forces to make QuickBird high-resolution satellite imagery available to customers through GlobeXplorer’s Internet server technology. The addition of QuickBird imagery to GlobeXplorer’s existing database of aerial and satellite products gives customers instant, online access to the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery, and takes advantage of standards-based Web Mapping Services technology.
DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer are offering cloud-free QuickBird satellite imagery of U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), and most international cities. To populate the database, DigitalGlobe is harvesting its extensive image library for the best imagery collected over the past two years.
Before delivering imagery products to GlobeXplorer for integration into the Web distribution infrastructure, DigitalGlobe georeferences and color balances the products, then compresses them into high quality JPEG2000 format. By creating and hosting a product library with user-ready products and applications, GlobeXplorer offers customers the ability to retrieve imagery on an “as-needed” basis, and to quickly integrate it into Internet applications, mapping and geographic information systems (GIS), or internal business processes.
“By accessing our products over the Web, customers benefit from immediate delivery without having to wait for customized product processing time,” said Steve Jennings, vice president of marketing for DigitalGlobe. “We anticipate that this will also open up the market for high-resolution imaging products in markets that, until now, have been largely underserved. Real estate agents, insurance professionals, and Web portal application users that already rely on GIS and mapping software packages can more easily browse imagery in user-friendly file formats and sizes, prior to purchasing products,” he added.
“Whether it’s through a standard Web browser, our Internet extensions for GIS software, or custom web-based business applications, users of earth imagery will now have instant access to DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird imagery library,” said Paul Smith, chief operating officer for GlobeXplorer. “We are enthusiastic about leveraging our market-proven technologies to support the growth of the satellite image industry,” Smith said.
About GlobeXplorer
GlobeXplorer LLC is a leading geographic data integration and publishing company providing online access to the world's largest commercial library of georeferenced digital aerial imagery. The company's image library is distributed over the Internet using a proprietary platform that dynamically searches, retrieves, compacts, and delivers high-quality images from an online database within seconds. Using this technology, GlobeXplorer provides fast and affordable access to aerial images and associated database content to thousands of businesses and consumers on a daily basis. Through dynamic Web applications, Web services, Internet portals, and Internet-aware devices, GlobeXplorer distributes interactive maps and aerial imagery via flexible subscription services. The company is headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., and its products are available worldwide. For further information, contact GlobeXplorer at info@globexplorer.com or visit www.globexplorer.com.
About Stewart Information Services Corp.
Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) is a technology driven, strategically competitive, global real estate information company. Stewart provides title insurance and related information services through more than 7,300 issuing locations in the United States and several international markets. Stewart meets the needs of the real estate and mortgage industries through the delivery of information services required for settlement using e-commerce. These services include title reports, flood determinations, document preparation, property reports and background checks. Stewart also supplies post-closing services to lenders, automated county clerk land records, property ownership mapping and GIS for governmental entities. Stewart provides expertise in tax-deferred exchanges. More information about Stewart can be found at www.stewart.com.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is an Earth imagery and information company in Longmont, Colo., USA. With the 2001 launch of its QuickBird satellite, DigitalGlobe has established a market leadership position. The company offers the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery, the largest image size and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any satellite imagery provider. DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary houses the most comprehensive, up-to-date images available. Since January 2002, QuickBird has collected and stored in its ImageLibrary more than 300,000 scenes of imagery covering more than 90 million square kilometers of the Earth, and collects an additional one million square kilometers each week. The competition has no plans to launch a comparable commercial satellite until at least 2007. The superior technical capabilities of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView system, scheduled for launch no later than 2006, will lead the industry into the next generation of commercial imaging. DigitalGlobe distinguishes itself through its commitment to excellent customer service, relationships with business partners and open-systems philosophy. More information can be found at www.digitalglobe.com.
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DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe, Inc. GlobeXplorer is a registered trademark of GlobeXplorer LLC.
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Media Contacts for DigitalGlobe:
Chuck Herring
DigitalGlobe
(303) 682-3820
cherring@digitalglobe.com
Linda Lidov (for DigitalGlobe)
Accent Relations
(303) 417-6303
linda@accentrelations.com
Partnership Facilitates Rapid Integration of QuickBird Imagery Into Real Estate, Asset Tracking and GIS Applications
LONGMONT, Colo. and WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 12, 2004 - DigitalGlobe® and GlobeXplorer® LLC, a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC), have joined forces to make QuickBird high-resolution satellite imagery available to customers through GlobeXplorer’s Internet server technology. The addition of QuickBird imagery to GlobeXplorer’s existing database of aerial and satellite products gives customers instant, online access to the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery, and takes advantage of standards-based Web Mapping Services technology.
DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer are offering cloud-free QuickBird satellite imagery of U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), and most international cities. To populate the database, DigitalGlobe is harvesting its extensive image library for the best imagery collected over the past two years.
Before delivering imagery products to GlobeXplorer for integration into the Web distribution infrastructure, DigitalGlobe georeferences and color balances the products, then compresses them into high quality JPEG2000 format. By creating and hosting a product library with user-ready products and applications, GlobeXplorer offers customers the ability to retrieve imagery on an “as-needed” basis, and to quickly integrate it into Internet applications, mapping and geographic information systems (GIS), or internal business processes.
“By accessing our products over the Web, customers benefit from immediate delivery without having to wait for customized product processing time,” said Steve Jennings, vice president of marketing for DigitalGlobe. “We anticipate that this will also open up the market for high-resolution imaging products in markets that, until now, have been largely underserved. Real estate agents, insurance professionals, and Web portal application users that already rely on GIS and mapping software packages can more easily browse imagery in user-friendly file formats and sizes, prior to purchasing products,” he added.
“Whether it’s through a standard Web browser, our Internet extensions for GIS software, or custom web-based business applications, users of earth imagery will now have instant access to DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird imagery library,” said Paul Smith, chief operating officer for GlobeXplorer. “We are enthusiastic about leveraging our market-proven technologies to support the growth of the satellite image industry,” Smith said.
About GlobeXplorer
GlobeXplorer LLC is a leading geographic data integration and publishing company providing online access to the world's largest commercial library of georeferenced digital aerial imagery. The company's image library is distributed over the Internet using a proprietary platform that dynamically searches, retrieves, compacts, and delivers high-quality images from an online database within seconds. Using this technology, GlobeXplorer provides fast and affordable access to aerial images and associated database content to thousands of businesses and consumers on a daily basis. Through dynamic Web applications, Web services, Internet portals, and Internet-aware devices, GlobeXplorer distributes interactive maps and aerial imagery via flexible subscription services. The company is headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., and its products are available worldwide. For further information, contact GlobeXplorer at info@globexplorer.com or visit www.globexplorer.com.
About Stewart Information Services Corp.
Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) is a technology driven, strategically competitive, global real estate information company. Stewart provides title insurance and related information services through more than 7,300 issuing locations in the United States and several international markets. Stewart meets the needs of the real estate and mortgage industries through the delivery of information services required for settlement using e-commerce. These services include title reports, flood determinations, document preparation, property reports and background checks. Stewart also supplies post-closing services to lenders, automated county clerk land records, property ownership mapping and GIS for governmental entities. Stewart provides expertise in tax-deferred exchanges. More information about Stewart can be found at www.stewart.com.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is an Earth imagery and information company in Longmont, Colo., USA. With the 2001 launch of its QuickBird satellite, DigitalGlobe has established a market leadership position. The company offers the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery, the largest image size and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any satellite imagery provider. DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary houses the most comprehensive, up-to-date images available. Since January 2002, QuickBird has collected and stored in its ImageLibrary more than 300,000 scenes of imagery covering more than 90 million square kilometers of the Earth, and collects an additional one million square kilometers each week. The competition has no plans to launch a comparable commercial satellite until at least 2007. The superior technical capabilities of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView system, scheduled for launch no later than 2006, will lead the industry into the next generation of commercial imaging. DigitalGlobe distinguishes itself through its commitment to excellent customer service, relationships with business partners and open-systems philosophy. More information can be found at www.digitalglobe.com.
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DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe, Inc. GlobeXplorer is a registered trademark of GlobeXplorer LLC.
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Media Contacts for DigitalGlobe:
Chuck Herring
DigitalGlobe
(303) 682-3820
cherring@digitalglobe.com
Linda Lidov (for DigitalGlobe)
Accent Relations
(303) 417-6303
linda@accentrelations.com
ClearMaps Institute of GIS
ClearMaps Institue of GIS is offering an online GIS Certificate and GIS Courses for professionals and interested members of the public to take at their own pace. Courses are taught by qualified professionals working in the GIS field.
Qualified individuals may apply for course exemptions based on education and experience. Courses include an Intro to GIS, Mobile GIS, Municipal Applications, Independent Study, Data Mining, and Career Building.
ClearMaps Institue of GIS is offering an online GIS Certificate and GIS Courses for professionals and interested members of the public to take at their own pace. Courses are taught by qualified professionals working in the GIS field.
Qualified individuals may apply for course exemptions based on education and experience. Courses include an Intro to GIS, Mobile GIS, Municipal Applications, Independent Study, Data Mining, and Career Building.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
MULTIMAP
Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. Our company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to businesses and consumers than any other supplier in Europe.
The business has two parts: the Public Web Site and Business Services.
The Public Web Site
Multimap.com is Europe's most popular mapping web site, offering a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also provides a range of complementary services through its partners. These include entertainment, hotel, holiday-cottage, restaurant and train-ticket booking services, SMS weather alerts and the ability to buy both historic and aerial photograph prints.
Since its launch in 1996, Multimap.com has become the number one online directory in the UK*, and one of the 10 most-visited sites in the UK overall*. In 2003 the public web site regularly delivers more than 80 million page views and received more than 6.3 million unique users per month. Traffic continues to grow on average by 10% per month.
Press comments about Multimap.com include:
"Brilliant – what a site." (Sunday Times)
"One of the seven wonders of the web." (Guardian Unlimited)
"The mother of all UK map sites." (Daily Telegraph)
Multimap has also won the World Communications Award for “Best Internet Service 2002” and the Web User (UK) Award for the “Most Innovative Use of the Web 2003”.
Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. Our company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to businesses and consumers than any other supplier in Europe.
The business has two parts: the Public Web Site and Business Services.
The Public Web Site
Multimap.com is Europe's most popular mapping web site, offering a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also provides a range of complementary services through its partners. These include entertainment, hotel, holiday-cottage, restaurant and train-ticket booking services, SMS weather alerts and the ability to buy both historic and aerial photograph prints.
Since its launch in 1996, Multimap.com has become the number one online directory in the UK*, and one of the 10 most-visited sites in the UK overall*. In 2003 the public web site regularly delivers more than 80 million page views and received more than 6.3 million unique users per month. Traffic continues to grow on average by 10% per month.
Press comments about Multimap.com include:
"Brilliant – what a site." (Sunday Times)
"One of the seven wonders of the web." (Guardian Unlimited)
"The mother of all UK map sites." (Daily Telegraph)
Multimap has also won the World Communications Award for “Best Internet Service 2002” and the Web User (UK) Award for the “Most Innovative Use of the Web 2003”.
CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMATICS
Founded in 1882, the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) has evolved to be a non-profit scientific and technical association devoted to advancing the development of geomatics in Canada.
The objectives of the Institute are:
-to advance the development of geomatics sciences in Canada;
-to enhance public awareness on the role geomatics plays in their daily lives;
-to maintain a publication of record of the history, development and progress of geomatics in Canada;
-to further the professional development of its members;
-to foster cooperation between and promote unity of purpose and action among Canadian geomatics organizations;
-to internationally represent and promote Canadian interests in geomatics;
-to provide a forum for professional networking through information exchanges, communications, and publications.
The GIG offers a certification program for GIS professionals in a variety of fields and to GIS managers. You must be a member in order to be certified. You can see the application form on the CIG Website.
Founded in 1882, the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) has evolved to be a non-profit scientific and technical association devoted to advancing the development of geomatics in Canada.
The objectives of the Institute are:
-to advance the development of geomatics sciences in Canada;
-to enhance public awareness on the role geomatics plays in their daily lives;
-to maintain a publication of record of the history, development and progress of geomatics in Canada;
-to further the professional development of its members;
-to foster cooperation between and promote unity of purpose and action among Canadian geomatics organizations;
-to internationally represent and promote Canadian interests in geomatics;
-to provide a forum for professional networking through information exchanges, communications, and publications.
The GIG offers a certification program for GIS professionals in a variety of fields and to GIS managers. You must be a member in order to be certified. You can see the application form on the CIG Website.
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