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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
DENVER — (February 24, 2009) Intermap Technologies announced today a partnership with PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of hardware/software systems for geo-imaging solutions, to offer the Company's uniformly accurate digital elevation models, orthorectified radar images, contour line maps, and optimized triangulated irregular network (TIN) models worldwide.
PCI Geomatics' flagship software Geomatica® has been enhanced, via a drop down option within the software, to streamline the acquisition and ingestion of Intermap's NEXTMap® dataset by GIS and geospatial professionals. PCI Geomatics' software and solutions enable users to process and analyze remote sensed data, create map and mapping products, and perform simple to highly advanced spatial analysis.
"PCI Geomatics is committed to helping our customers solve real-world, complex problems and is pleased to join forces with Intermap to have data so readily available for effective decision making,” said Trevor Taylor, director of business development at PCI Geomatics. “Intermap's high-quality and affordable data will allow users to arrive at more accurate solutions with significant savings in both time and money.”
Commercial market applications for PCI Geomatics include environmental management, sustainable agriculture, defense and intelligence, data processing, and more. Intermap's high-resolution 3D digital elevation models, collected as part of its NEXTMap countrywide mapping program, effectively enable these types of applications worldwide.
“Customers worldwide will gain great value through our relationship with PCI Geomatics,” stated Tony Brown, Intermap's vice president of data products. "This relationship will benefit PCI Geomatics' customers by enabling the easy access and download of superior digital terrain and surface models, orthorectified radar imagery, and contours for the U.S. and Western Europe.”
The recent release of Geomatica version 10.2 includes the option to “Get Data” from Intermap or to download directly at http://pcigeomatics.terrainondemand.com.
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About Intermap Technologies
Intermap (TSX: IMP.TO, AIM: IMAP.L) is a preeminent digital mapping company creating uniform high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth's surface. The Company is proactively remapping entire countries and building uniform national databases, called NEXTMap®, consisting of affordably priced elevation data and geometric images of unprecedented accuracy. Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new commercial applications emerge within the GIS, engineering, automotive, GPS maps, insurance risk assessment, oil and gas, hydrology, environmental planning, wireless communications, transportation, aviation, and 3D visualization markets.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap employs more than 850 people worldwide, with additional offices in Calgary, Detroit, Jakarta, London, Munich, Ottawa, Paris, Prague, and Washington D.C. For more information, visit www.Intermap.com.
NEXTMap® is a registered trademark of Intermap Technologies Corporation
Contact
Intermap Technologies
Kevin Thomas, Vice President, Marketing
+1 303-708-0955
kthomas@intermap.com
About PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of hardware/software systems for geo-imaging solutions. Since 1982, we have specialized in remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, spatial analysis, cartographic production, automated production systems, image management and on demand mapping solutions. PCI Geomatics' advanced hardware/software systems address a wide variety of industry applications including the environment, agriculture, security and intelligence, aerospace & defense, and satellite receiving stations. We have the expertise and know-how to turn images into useful information.
For more information, visit www.pcigeomatics.com.
Intermap Reader Advisory
Certain information provided in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate", "expect", "project", "estimate", "forecast" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Although Intermap believes that these statements are based on information and assumptions which are current, reasonable and complete, these statements are necessarily subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. You can find a discussion of such risks and uncertainties in our Annual Information Form and other securities filings. While the Company makes these forward-looking statements in good faith, should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from those expected. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits that the Company will derive therefrom. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Intermap or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as at the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities law.
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