Archived GIS Snippets
Published in 2007
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PCI Geomatics celebrates the unveiling of GeoCapacity in India
PCI Geomatics®, a world-leading developer of image-centric software and solutions for the geospatial industry, is pleased to announce a series of events in India including New Delhi (January 17), Chandigarh (January 19) and Hyderabad (January 22) to showcase the success of the first phase of the Agricultural GeoCapacity Network (AGCN) project. In partnership with the Punjab Remote Sensing Center, PAU, Info-Electronic Systems (Montreal and New Delhi) and CIDA Inc, the AGCN phase I project provides a proof of concept that illustrates how information on crop yields and trend analysis can be automatically generated and delivered to scientists, government officials and the general public via a simple web browser.
Developed in conjunction with Indian experts, the AGCN provides an automated way to take complex satellite and geospatial data, and transform it into easily interpreted, deliverable information pertaining to crop, soil, irrigation, pollution and socio-economic factors that will assist in decision making and agricultural productivity.
“Agriculture is key to India’s economy,” said Trevor Taylor, Director of Solutions Sales at PCI Geomatics. “The Agricultural Geocapacity project with its on-demand information will be able to assist Indian officials to act on any indications of stress or disaster related damages to crops, providing increased vigilance in the agriculture sector for all of Punjab State.”
first published week of: 01/22/2007
PCI Geomatics completes Web Coverage Service testing from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc®
PCI Geomatics® announced that it has successfully completed the Web Coverage Service test suite from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) for their product Geomatica® WebServer Suite – Web Coverage Server (WCS), Version 10.0.3.
PCI's Web Coverage Server is compliant with the OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service Implementation Specification 1.0.0. The WCS publishes geospatial information representing space varying phenomena, referred to as “coverages.” The WCS is capable of serving grid-based data defined by a range of properties or values for a specified geographic location in a supported projection, resolution, and format specified by the coverage request. Unlike the Web Map Server, which serves a rendered image of the data, the WCS supplies the raw data that can be used in client-side viewing or as input to scientific modeling and data analysis.
first published week of: 03/09/2007
PCI Geomatics demonstrates the power of automation via the AIMM system
CI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of software and solutions for geospatial imaging applications, is pleased to announce it has successfully demonstrated the power of the Automatic Ingest Mosaic Mapping System (AIMM) in a coalition military environment. This beneficial and economical system is used to transform geospatial data and imagery into valuable information which can assist commanders in making key decisions in support of operations.
AIMM is comprised of PCI Geomatics core technology which has been packaged into a highly interoperable framework. This framework offers our customers the flexibility to choose robust plug and play components which are founded on 25 years of developing and implementing algorithms to correct and manipulate geospatial raster and vector data. These components can be chained together in a highly customizable fashion to optimize processing performance.
AIMM is an example of a fully automatic system which performs; ortho-correction of both optical and SAR satellite imagery, storage and search capabilities within an Oracle 10g database, and the production of image and topographic maps.
Geointelligence analysts can use AIMM to request images, mosaics, or maps relevant to their area of interest, searching by keyword, sensor type, acquisition date or location. Automatically responding to the query, the system can send the requested imagery in a variety of formats including PIX, NITF GeoTIFF, PDF and JPEG by FTP or email.
“The AIMM system from PCI Geomatics provides wide-area terrain intelligence for battlefield or theatre operations and directly supports any command requiring accurate, up-to-date map information,” said David Piekny, Account Manger at PCI Geomatics.
AIMM is fully web enabled, allowing inputs and outputs via a variety of methods including web browsers, email, and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web services and FTP. AIMM is one example of a customized automated production workflow that PCI Geomatics has created to serve our customers needs.
first published week of: 10/22/2007
PCI Geomatics develops a Geocor ProPack within Geomatica®
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of image centric software and solutions for the geospatial industry, is pleased to announce the development of the Geocor ProPack, under the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth Observation Application Development Program (EOADP). The Geocor ProPack will be made available through PCI Geomatics as an add-on module to the Geomatica 10 software suite.
The objective of the EOADP project was to evaluate and implement the GEOCOR software, developed by Dr. Jack Gibson of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada. PCI Geomatics assessed the use of the software for Polarimetric SAR data, and then incorporated it into the programming environment, Geomatica. The software automatically extracts Ground Control Points (GCPs) by matching the raw image with reference vector data, either lines (usually roads) or polygons (usually lakes). In addition to the Polarimetric SAR data, the software works with the standard SAR images, and with the optical images.
“It is very gratifying to have software developed in a project move from a proof-of-concept stage into a product that is available for use by the Remote Sensing and GIS communities,” said Dr. Jack Gibson, Research Scientist, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada.
“The availability of accurate, automatically derived GCPs makes it possible to automate image orthocorrection workflows. This significantly speeds up the ingestion and further analysis of the remote sensing images,” said Juliusz Ostrowski, Senior Scientist at PCI Geomatics. “The Geocor ProPack will provide easy to use tools to produce more accurate results at reduced costs.”
first published week of: 10/29/2007
PCI Geomatics releases major upgrade to Geomatica software
PCI Geomatics® announced the release of Geomatica 10.1. This release features significant new additions along with enhancements in reliability, performance, usability and functionality of existing technology. “This update is the culmination of user requests and recommendations, as well as advancements that we have made in our technology,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager for Geomatica.
“At PCI Geomatics, our goal is to listen to our customers and provide the technology they need to get the job done.”
OrthoEngine enhancements for Geomatica version 10.1 include a customizable GCP collection viewer, along with improved efficiency in GCP and tie point collection efficiency. Also included is new support for the ALOS sensors PRISM, AVNIR and PALSAR. Significant advancements have also been included to automatic mosaicking, resulting in higher quality and better tone balanced mosaics.
Focus improvements include a new Overview Manager interface, which allows users to create and manage existing overviews. And in response to user demand, significant enhancements have been made to data visualization, along with better image scaling, advanced histograms, and improved math model support.
Geomatica 10.1 now incorporates the Sentinel RMS license management system from SafeNet Inc. for robust and reliable license management.
first published week of: 05/07/2007
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