Munich, Germany, July 1, 2005 – Definiens AG today announced an
agreement with Sinclair Knight Merz, an Australia-based professional
services firm, to serve as a reseller of eCognition products for
Australia and New Zealand.
For both Definiens and Sinclair Knight
Merz, this partnership is key to their mutual goal of providing cutting
edge remote sensing technologies and services to the widest range of
organizations.
“Australia and New Zealand
represent essential and potentially huge markets for our software
technologies,” says Markus Heynen, Definiens’ Manager International
Sales & Marketing – Geospatial Solutions.” By joining with Sinclair
Knight Merz, a reputed, well positioned organization with vast
experience and expertise in delivering Geospatial solutions, we are
confident that Definiens technologies will make further significant
inroads.”
“We see this as a way to provide our clients with imagery software that
performs satellite image classification more intelligently, more
accurately and more efficiently than traditional classification
methods. Definiens award winning software offers a completely new,
unique approach to image classification allowing SKM to offer a proven
software tool with high resolution satellite imagery acquisitions,”
says John Cazani, SKM‘s Business Manager – DigitalGlobe. “This new
relationship with Definiens reinforces our ability to provide clients
with an imagery solution as part of our spatial services business. As
the available resolution of satellite imagery improves, we now have the
ability to offer a toolset that delivers high quality imagery products
and services.”
About Definiens
Founded in 2000 in München, Germany by
nobel laureate Dr. Gerd Binnig, Definiens is the sole provider of
object-oriented image classification software and associated services.
Our core invention is the proprietary eCognition. eCognition represents
a quantum leap in the realms of digital remote sensing image analysis
making it possible to handle complex classification problems which
require the consideration of local context information. eCognition
greatly accelerates existing workflow wherever digital image data is in
use. Above all it commences a paradigm shift opening endless new
possibilities and applications for image analysis. We remain committed
to being the leader in the development of image analysis technology far
into the future through continuous research and development.
About Sinclair Knight Merz
Sinclair Knight Merz Group is a leading
global professional services firm working with public and private
sector clients across several chosen market areas. Services include
engineering, scientific studies, planning, economics, logistics,
architecture, geotechnical engineering, project management and spatial
information. Sinclair Knight Merz Spatial Sector works with clients to
plan, design, build and integrate complex information management
systems, with an aim to enhancing their client‘s operational
efficiency, management effectiveness, and decision-making and planning
capabilities. We provide leading edge services encompassing Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) , photogrammetry , remote sensing , surveying
, data conversion , mapping and spatial databases .
(Credits Definiens)