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GeoID takes part in the RESPOND project.

GeoID takes part in the RESPOND project. Humanitarian aid organisations are supported with geographic information (www.respond-int.org).
GeoID is a young innovative company which provides and further develops geographic information products and services about the environment. GeoID delivers information about land, marine and coastal environments. Our current range of services is suitable for land and coastal management, for support to civil engineering projects and environmental impact assessments. GeoID strives to deliver all this geo-information in an efficient (automated) and understandable way.
(Source GeoID)

GAF AG has been awarded a contract to set-up a new computerised and countrywide mining cadastre system for Nigeria.

After the successful completion of contract negotiations GAF has started work on-site in June 2007. The project aims to improve governance in the mining sector, through the establishment of a transparent system to grant, manage and cancel permits. The efficient and reliable management of mining titles is considered as a backbone to increase investment and growth in the mining sector of Nigeria.
Activities include set-up of the new computerized mining cadastre in Nigeria, training, database generation and institutional strengthening. A key component is the design and development of the computerised mineral titling system SIGTIM which will be especially conceived for the new mining law in Nigeria – for the benefit of the administration, miners, investors as well as the public.
Works will be performed for the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Abuja, Nigeria. The project duration is 12 months, with a subsequent phase of maintenance and support of 12 months. Activities are funded by the World Bank, International Development Association. The contract value amounts to 1 million EUR. The activities in Nigeria follow countries like DRC, Madagascar and Namibia, where GAF has set-up already nation-wide computerised mining titling systems, which are now successfully in operation since several years.
About GAF:
GAF AG is an international company with leading competence and expertise in applied remote sensing and spatial information systems. GAF AG offers a comprehensive portfolio of services ranging from supply of geo-data (e.g. satellite and aerial imagery, digital elevation models), and geo-services (e.g. image processing, thematic mapping, GIS/DBMS applications and software development). GAF AG has a proven track-record in performing technical assistance projects in the overall natural resources sector and delivering customized geological and land information systems.
(Source GAF AG)

The service provider network consists of GeoVille GmbH (Austria), GISAT
s.r.o. (Czech Republic), Metria (Sweden), Planetek Italia srl. (Italy), Tragsatec
SA (Spain), and Infoterra GmbH (Germany),

European Environment Agency awards first GMES Land Cover Mapping
contract
Built-up areas and soil sealing in Europe to be mapped by 2008
Friedrichshafen, May 24th, 2007 – Starting this month, a European service
provider network led by Infoterra GmbH will map built-up areas and soil
sealing for Europe. By 2008, the consortium will cover 5.8 mio square
kilometres at 20 m resolution for the reference year of 2006.
This challenging project has recently been awarded by the European
Environment Agency (EEA) as one of the first seamless pan-European geoinformation
services within the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and
Security) initiative of the European Commission (EC) and the European
Space Agency (ESA).
The service provider network consists of GeoVille GmbH (Austria), GISAT
s.r.o. (Czech Republic), Metria (Sweden), Planetek Italia srl. (Italy), Tragsatec
SA (Spain), and Infoterra GmbH (Germany), gathering essential expertise
from all over Europe.
About Infoterra GmbH
Infoterra GmbH, Friedrichshafen, has been a leader in development and
validation of GMES services for several years now. The company has
established a strong expertise in geo-information services for land monitoring,
water quality assessment, and spatial planning applications. Within the
European GMES Land Monitoring services, Infoterra GmbH is coordinating
major development and implementation projects.
Infoterra GmbH was founded in 2001 to prepare and conduct the commercial
exploitation of TerraSAR-X. The company is responsible not only for the
commercial distribution of the data, but for the development and marketing of
derived geo-information products and services as well.
Infoterra GmbH employs a workforce of 40 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astrium GmbH.

Contact:
Mareike Döpke
T +49 7545 8 3924
M +49 171 793 7253
E
mareike.doepke@infoterra-global.com

Earth Observation value-added services in Europe generated €390 million in 2005 according to a study completed by Euroconsult for ESA Strategy and Future Programmes Department

48 market segments in satcom, satnav and EO analysed …
The study “Assessment of the downstream value-adding sectors of space-based applications” was completed over an 18 month period with the objectives to assess the current and future scenarios for the value-added services markets worldwide, taking into account strategic, technological and regional trends, market’s supply, demand and dynamics. Market valuation and forecast based on quantitative and qualitative analysis and a benchmark of the European value-added market produced.
This extensive study took into account 48 market segments across the three satellite service value chains; satellite communications, satellite navigation and Earth observation.
Satellite services generated €73 billion in revenues worldwide in 2005 up from €33 billion in 2000
Overall, value-added services generated €73 billion worldwide across the satellite service sectors in 2005. The revenues generated by Earth observation represent approximately 2% of the total.
• The Satcom value chain is currently the most developed in terms of commercial revenues with consolidated turnover of €54 billion, €46 billion of which is generated by the direct-to-home television market
• Satnav generated €17.3 billion in 2005
• EO generated €1.3 billion in 2005
EO markets experiencing modest growth and have not yet reached maturity
EO value added services are estimated to have generated revenue of €390 million in 2005 for the European and Canadian service sector. Meteorology represents the largest source of revenues with €211 million (54% of total revenues). By 2015 revenues for Earth observation value-added services in Europe are expected to be in the €600 million to €820 million range, representing a CAGR of between 6%-10%. Among the key findings of the report were:
• EO markets have shown a less promising profile than perceived expectations from market players during the last ten years. The development/sustainability of products and services in almost all market segments remains conditional upon strong public sector backing
• Private investors and insurers are showing limited acceptance and understanding of EO products. Apparition of public private partnerships, especially in Europe, is seen as a major step towards improved access to private capital
• The biggest growth area is Homeland Security due to increased public expenditure over the last 5 years with growing requirements from defence and civil customers. GMES in Europe participates to better structure the market.
• Oceanography, particularly Marine Transport is anticipated to be the second highest growing market. Increased levels of shipping activity and marine hydrocarbon exploration worldwide are being met by advances in ship-routing through satellite navigation and radar technology
• A number of market segments, such as Humanitarian Relief and Water Resource monitoring, are still waiting to emerge remaining in a technology phase under government based initiatives where there is little or no commercial interest
• In the future, market accessibility in developing countries is expected to become more difficult due to a large number of projects implemented in many countries such as Thailand, Nigeria, Turkey, Chile, etc (77 satellites planned over the next ten years), increasing capabilities of terrestrial solutions including airborne LIDAR and UAVs will also increase pressures in some markets
• Consumer related services are just emerging but with strong support from large IT and web companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google, providing strong confidence for future market growth.
The project team
The study team was composed of
- Euroconsult (France): Project management, satcom, Earth observation
– Jon Styles, Assimila (UK): Earth observation
- Helios (UK): satnav
- Bertin Technologies (France): technology trends
The team would also like to thank the numerous companies and individuals who took part.
About Euroconsult…..
Euroconsult is an employee-owned company with over 500 clients in 50 countries. Since its creation in 1983, the company has become a worldwide reference for expertise and independent advice on satellite application and digital broadcasting for innovative and high-technology companies.
Euroconsult’s service capabilities include independent assessments of business plans and government policies, market assessments, financial valuations, risk assessments and feasibility studies.
Euroconsult also host the World Satellite Business Week, September 3-6, 2007, Hotel Westin, Paris. (http://www.satellite-business.com)
For further information please contact;
Adam Keith
Keith@Euroconsult-ec.com
Tel. +33 (0)1 49 23 75 27
Fax +33 (0)1 48 05 54 39
(Source Euroconsult)

ESRI and ITT Visual Information Solutions today announced a business relationship to develop a certified National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) extension for ESRI?s ArcGIS platform.

ESRI is the international leader in developing geographic information systems (GIS) software. ITT Visual Information Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT).
The planned NITF extension will seamlessly integrate with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Image Server to provide users a proven, certified solution for accessing and creating NITF data, a common raster data format used by the defense and intelligence communities in the United States.
The new extension will permit geospatial imagery analysts to read and write NITF data within the ArcGIS environment. In addition, the extension allows analysts to create data products that comply with the NITF specifications and improve the efficiency and timeliness of their workflow.
ITT Visual Information Solutions has extensive experience in understanding and developing NITF products to support its premier image processing platform, ENVI, used extensively in the defense and intelligence communities. The ENVI NITF Module is CLevel 7 certified by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and is the tool of choice for many government agencies and corporations using geospatial imagery today.
Teaming with a proven leader like ITT Visual Information Solutions to develop this extension for the ArcGIS platform is a perfect solution to extend our users? imagery capability, said Jack Dangermond, ESRI´s president.
ITT´s extension will complement ESRI?s already interoperable standards driven platform and provide users in the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security with a certified NITF implementation.
Both ESRI and ITT recognize the need to advance the interoperability of enterprise software tools to improve Geospatial and Imagery Analyst workflows, said Richard Cooke, president and COO, ITT Visual Information Solutions.
The seamless integration of ITT´s ENVI NITF tools into ESRI´s world-class GIS platform will simplify analyst workflows, reduce the time to read and write NITF data, and improve the production of time critical geospatial analysis.
For additional information about ESRI, visit www.esri.com
For additional information on ITT Visual Information Solutions, visit www.ittvis.com
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world´s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com
ESRI, the ESRI globe logo, GIS by ESRI, www.esri.com, and esri.com are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.
 
About ITT Corporation
 
ITT Corporation supplies advanced technology products and services in several growth markets. ITT is a global leader in the transport, treatment and control of water, wastewater and other fluids. The company plays a vital role in international security through its defense communications and electronics products; space surveillance and intelligence systems; and advanced engineering and related services. It also serves the growing leisure marine and electrical connectors markets with a wide range of products. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company generated $7.8 billion in 2006 sales. In addition to the New York Stock Exchange, ITT Corporation stock is traded on the Euronext, London and Frankfurt exchanges.
 
About ITT Visual Information Solutions
 
ITT Visual Information Solutions (formerly Research Systems, Inc./RSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, provides integrated software solutions that help scientists, engineers, researchers, and medical professionals turn complex data into useful information. The company�s 150,000 customers from more than 80 countries use IDL, ENVI and IAS to analyze data and imagery and deploy imaging applications. ITT Visual Information Solutions� products are used in a variety of industries, including remote sensing, engineering, earth sciences, aerospace, defense and intelligence, medical imaging, oil and gas exploration and biotechnology. Combined with a host of support services including training, consulting and technical support, ITT Visual Information Solutions offers the most complete data visualization, image analysis and image delivery solutions available. For more information visit: www.ittvis.com
 
ITT Visual Information Solutions Media Contact
 
Lori Thompson,
ITT Visual Information Solutions
303-402-4664
lthompsonittvis.com
ESRI Media Contact:
Carla Wheeler, ESRI
909-793-2853, ext. 2448
press@esri.com
(Source ITT)

Madrid‘s Municipal Transport Company ( Empresa Municipal de Transportes : EMT) has awarded GMV the contract for the design, development and implementation of a new IT system based on GIS technology (Geographic Information Systems) for improving specific management applications of its service.

The new system will make Madrid‘s public transport system easier to run for EMT‘s personnel, providing them with a series of specific functions based on a service-oriented architecture.
The new system will allow the actual bus routes to be compared with the theoretical expected movements over time. An analysis of fact and theory will then allow very valuable conclusions to be drawn on the quality of the service offered (punctuality, frequency, regularity, black spots, etc.).
The system will also allow detailed studies to be carried out of late- and early-running on the various bus lines, varying the scheduled timetables to suit.
The system will deal with enquires on bus lines and stops, in terms of speed, occupation and timetables, within certain timebands. The objective will be to analyze the behavior of supply and demand for the service to bring it into line with the real needs of the particular region.
A data model based on a Geographic Information System (GIS) will also be set up to give a great number of users access to the integrated information supplied by the new systems and bring it into relation with the city‘s actual geographical layout.
Once the first phase is in place, the project will serve as the basis for all EMT‘s future IT developments with geographical components.
This is Spain‘s first ever corporate GIS built up on ESRI 9.2; the time span for its execution is 12 months.
(Source GMV)

EDISOFT leads the consortium that will be responsible for all systems maintenance and operation activities at the Santa Maria Ground Station, one of the twelve satellite tracking stations that ESA operates.

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a network of tracking stations, commonly referred to as ESTRACK, dedicated to the support of ESA’s and third parties’ mission.
The Santa Maria Station (SMA) is one of the twelve stations located at eight sites around the globe. Santa Maria, the island in the Azores selected for ESA‘s new tracking station, offers an excellent location for the installation and operation of a down-range station for the reception of telemetry for Ariane launches. The first launch to be monitored from Santa Maria will take place in January 2008, when Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle to be sent to the International Space Station, lifts off from Europe‘s Spaceport in French Guiana.
EDISOFT, acting as the prime contractor, will be responsible for all system maintenance and operation activities at SMA, namely launch support operations, maintenance management and administration of the ground station. The other consortium members are the Azores local companies, GLOBALEDA and SEGMA. The O&M Team already designated will ensure the quality of the service to be provided and avoid disruption of service, for which know-how overlap and cross-training activity have been accommodated.
Currently, EDISOFT is also exploring the possibility of evolution of the Santa Maria ground station to be used as a facility for Earth Observation payload data reception.

Contact:
Bárbara Guerra Manso
Head of Business Development & Marketing
Edisoft, S.A.
Rua Quinta dos Medronheiros
Lazarim
Apartado 382 Monte de Caparica
2826-801 Caparica Portugal
Tel.: (+351) 212 945 900
Fax: (+351) 212 945 999
Mobile: (+351) 93 235 1618
E-mail: barbara.manso@edisoft.pt
(Source Edisoft)

DEIMOS Space´s website undergoes a major revamp with a new page structure, contents and utilities.

The pages feature a neat and intuitive design which introduces visual aspects that make them more appealing and effective. Ease of navigation and content location were both key drivers from the website conception up to its full development.
Information arrangement defines the content and exhibits it in a balanced manner while ensuring its usability all the time. Web page navigation turns simple and quick allowing immediate access to that information of interest to the visitor.
The new website provides much more general information on the company, its activities and expertise as well as on its experience and skills. The new page on Quality highlights DEIMOS Space´s commitment to its customers and focus towards business excellence. Job opportunities for both professionals and university students are presented in an entirely redesigned area.
(Source Deimos Space)

Using Definiens’ technology, GeoVille has developed a highly-automated land use mapping application that further increases the reliability and efficacy of traditional processing approaches. The result provides European agencies, government bodies, and commercial customers with harmonized, cross-border land use data that enables customers to make better decisions.

Introduction
With increasing pressure on organizations and agencies to assess the environmental impact of regional policies and activities, there is an evergrowing demand for reliable land use information.
In Germany alone, every day some 100 hectares of land – the equivalent of 200 football pitches – is lost to urban development and transport infrastructure. With 75 per cent of Europeans living in urban areas, it is a similar story across the continent.
In developing countries around the world, increasing urbanization leads to mega cities which face severe health and safety challenges from uncontrolled land consumption and growing slums.
The Challenge
Strategies for soil protection and monitoring systems are urgently needed all over the world. Initiatives such as the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) were established to address those issues by building a space- and ground-based infrastructure to provide reliable and timely Earth Observation information services.
As a key player in GMES, GeoVille aims to develop reliable, standardized and affordable mapping and downstream services that support the implementation of European directives and their national realization.
GeoVille developed RegioCover, a specific mapping application. By integrating the Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence™ platform with commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), GeoVille created a highly-automated, accurate and reliable crossborder application for operational urban and regional land use mapping.
RegioCover, using Definiens’ technology, reveals a detailed picture of built-up areas, enabling regional governments to engage in effective urban planning.
GeoVille‘s concern was to map land cover and land use in a cost-efficient way while maximizing data throughput and optimizing information quality across different environments. In particular:
-The results need to be ready for direct integration into any GIS environment.
-Customers have to be provided with harmonized, high-quality spatial information across all environments enabling them to compare different regions and cities of interest.
-Geospatial data must contain well-defined and standardized levels of precision and confidence levels to be a reliable basis for decisions.
-For many of GeoVille’s clients, their decision-making processes require not just land cover, but much more the analysis of land use.
-The service must be highly scalable supporting all types of modern spaceborne and airborne sensors, including SAR, Lidar, panchromatic, infrared, single channel, multispectral and hyperspectral imagery.
The Solution
GeoVille‘s RegioCover is a processing chain which generates standardized geospatial information on land cover and land use from remote sensing imagery in a clearly defined and highly-automated way. It consists of customized software components developed and integrated by GeoVille. The core of the processing chain – segmentation and classification applications – is based on Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence™ Suite, which offers several major advantages over other technologies:
-Definiens’ multi-resolution segmentation is essential to create meaningful objects for advanced feature extraction and GIS-ready results.
-With traditional pixel-based approaches, image classification is limited to land cover. With its object-oriented approach, Definiens technology derives image context and neighbourhood relations, making it possible to identify not only land cover but also land use.
-Definiens technology fully supports a multi-source environment which greatly increases the flexibility of RegioCover and the comparability of results.
-Fuzzy classification and advanced accuracy analysis make the performance analysis not only fully compliant with standard measurements, but gives additional information on confidence levels to enable better decisions.
-Definiens supports GeoVille to develop simple applications quickly and easily with a ‘click and classify’ tool.
-Definiens is capable of integrating expert knowledge easily where more in-depth analysis is required.
RegioCover significantly enhances GeoVille’s capability to analyze images and automate their interpretation. It enables GeoVille to identify land use directly from satellite and aerial images. This is of huge benefit to organizations and environmental bodies, not only in helping them to make better policy decisions, but in reducing the costs associated with performing the task manually.

Regional Governments

GeoVille uses Definiens’ technology to automate the mapping of
land use and forest extent based on terabytes of aerial photographs.
Thousands of square kilometres of high resolution aerial photographs
have been mapped with high precision. GeoVille guarantees accuracy of
up to 95% in identifying different types of land use and land cover.
“The automated workflow increases throughput dramatically which means
we can properly assess the impact of policies, the sustainability of
land consumption, or the rate of land cover change in the light of
accurate, up-to-date and reliable data.”
Johannes Kanonier, Head of GIS Department, State Government of
Vorarlberg

Radio communication planning operators
GeoVille uses Definiens’ technology to derive large area clutter maps
for radio communication planning operators. These maps are used for
wave propagation modelling and the subsequent planning of radio
communication networks. Clutter maps have already been produced for
countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.
“WIMAX Telecom requires very high quality clutter maps for its network
planning. GeoVille‘s clutter maps produced with RegioCover have
convinced us through an excellent quality-price ratio, their rapid
availability and flexibility of coverage.”
Matthias Hatz, Head of Radio Network Deployment, WIMAX Telecom
The Results
RegioCover supports GeoVille in its mission to offer innovative and affordable geo-information products with high levels of precision for its customers. In most cases, RegioCover achieves more than 90% accuracy in identifying land cover and land use. This is an average 20% improvement over pixel-based analysis systems. At the same time, GeoVille estimates that the cost of manual analysis would be around 30% higher.
“Definiens is an essential part of RegioCover. It means we can deliver results that much quicker. The bottom line is this: GeoVille customers get to make better and more timely business decisions. The importance of this cannot be underestimated.”
Jürgen Weichselbaum, Head of Technical Department, GeoVille
The European Environment Agency has recently recognized the
important role that GeoVille plays in land cover and land use mapping.
“EEA acknowledges with great interest the Definiens GMES Innovation
Award won by its European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial
Information partner GeoVille. Technology like the one developed and
applied by GeoVille will in future certainly help to address bridging
the gap between regional, national and European land cover and land use
mapping.”
Chris Steenmans, European Environment Agency (EEA)
The Future
GeoVille sees many opportunities of further deploying Definiens’ technology in the future.
GeoVille aims to offer object-based change detection enabling customers to update maps and detect changes to the environment automatically. For example, it would be possible to examine land use changes in a specific location or over a large area by comparing images, even if those images were taken under different conditions or by different imaging systems.
Feature extraction is an intrinsic capability of Definiens’ object-based technology. In the future, GeoVille wants RegioCover to extract any defined feature. For example, it is already possible to create a map in which all the buildings are represented by a standardized shape, which makes the map easier to read.
Currently, RegioCover involves a number of discrete software components. In the future, GeoVille aims to integrate these components so that the results produced by one component are automatically imported to the next component. The entire process chain would be controlled by a single interface, making the system even easier to use and giving people without specialized training or experience access to RegioCover‘s full capabilities.
This integration would, in turn, enable RegioCover to perform fully-automated and enhanced batch processing, capable of producing complete land use maps without any manual intervention.
Conclusion
Definiens’ technology provides the vital tools of segmentation and classification in the RegioCover processing chain. It brings five key benefits to RegioCover:
Cost reduction – automation greatly reduces the need for manual analysis while any ruleware developed can be reused on other projects
Quality – high thematic accuracy and precision provides information on which good decisions can be based
Standardization – going beyond land cover mapping to identify land use across Europe
Coverage – RegioCover can handle large data volumes ensuring harmonized mapping of large areas
Integration – allowing optimized workflows with existing proprietary components of RegioCover for Land, Cadastre, Forest and Validation

GeoVille group
GeoVille group is a private sector enterprise based in Austria and Luxembourg, serving a global customer base. The company specializes in products and services for Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).GeoVille’s portfolio includes spatial planning, forestry and environmental applications, as well as land use and land cover mapping. Clients include private enterprises, international organizations and government bodies involved in urban and regional planning, infrastructure planning and environmental monitoring.
For more information : info@geoville.com
(Soruce GeoVille Group)

Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, today unveiled its Definiens Extension for ArcGIS®.

June 2007. Highlighted on the opening day of the 27th ESRI User Conference in San Diego, this extension allows organizations to combine ESRI’s leading geographic information system (GIS) technology, ArcGIS®, with the Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence™ Suite of products to better leverage the value of information contained in earth observation and remote sensing images. Having joined the ESRI business partner program as an ArcGIS Integration Partner, Definiens provides a simple-to-use iterative workflow for the ArcGIS environment to enrich GIS applications with additional intelligence from images, producing accurate and detailed map data in a standardized and cost-efficient way.
“Most GIS applications available today cannot exploit all the information contained in images. Extracting information and fusing it with geospatial data has been simply too difficult and time consuming. Combining GIS information management with intelligent, highly automated context-based image analysis brings remarkable benefits to GIS users. The integration between Definiens and ESRI saves organizations time and resources while unlocking the value of the rich information residing in remote sensing and earth observation images,” commented Rene Hermes, Vice President of Marketing at Definiens.
Definiens Extension for ArcGIS supports GIS users by improving their efficiency, providing deeper insights and faster mapping capabilities. This technology provides organizations with an advanced, out-of-the-box solution for fast and intelligent feature extraction, object recognition and change detection. In addition, data management connectivity enables Definiens’ applications to interact directly with the geodatabase. ESRI customers can enrich their GIS applications with detailed, accurate and area-wide geospatial information from all modern remote sensing sensors such as aerial, satellites, SAR, Lidar and hyperspectral sensors, etc.
With a simple and efficient workflow, users can now easily access Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence Suite of products for highly automated image analysis capabilities, without leaving the ESRI environment. No time consuming file exchange or post-processing of automatically extracted features is necessary. The workflow is ideal for the modular design of automated image analysis applications and delivers more robust and transferable analysis results.
The connection between ESRI and Definiens optimizes the use of digital geospatial images and enables the sharing standardized results with different departments and individuals. Experts gain increased insights that support the decision-making processes by being able to share image analysis results and fusing them with additional geospatial information across different areas.
Broadly available in July 2007, Definiens Extension for ArcGIS supports all Desktop ArcGIS® products; ArcView®, ArcInfo® and ArcEditor™. It also extends the functionality of ArcCatalog™ and ArcMap™ with automated image intelligence applications.
Definiens in Earth Sciences
Definiens enables organizations involved in Earth Sciences to quickly extract accurate geo-information, ready for use in GIS, from earth observation and remote sensing imagery. Definiens’ intelligent feature extraction capabilities accelerate mapping, change detection as well as object recognition and deliver standardized, reproducible image analysis results.
About Definiens
Definiens is the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence company for analyzing and interpreting images on every scale, from microscopic cell structures to satellite images. The Definiens Cognition Network Technology®, developed by Nobel laureate Prof. Gerd Binnig and his team, is an advanced and robust technology designed to fulfill the image analysis requirements of the Life and Earth sciences markets. The technology is modeled on the powerful human cognitive perception processes to extract intelligence from images. Definiens provides organizations with faster image analysis results, allowing deeper insights enabling better business decisions. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices throughout the United States. Further information is available at www.definiens.com.
Definiens, Definiens Cellenger, Definiens Cognition Network Technology, Definiens eCognition, Enterprise Image Intelligence and Understanding Images are trademarks or registered trademarks of Definiens. All other names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press contacts:
Definiens AG
Rene Hermes,
Vice President Marketing
rhermes@definiens.com
+49 (0)89 231180-11
Nina Wenske
(n.wenske@lucyturpin.com)
Phone: +49089041776113
(Source Directionsmag)