Geoimage and Intermap cement reseller agreement

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:44

IT Industry - Market

Privately owned Australian satellite imagery company, Geoimage, has secured an agreement with US-based 3D terrain information provider, Intermap Technologies, to distribute its NEXTMap digital elevation models and image products in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and other Pacific countries.

Geoimage CEO, Wayne Middleton said today that the NEXTMap products complement Geoimage's satellite offerings. 'This is an important agreement for Geoimage and we are very excited to form a relationship with a renowned data supplier like Intermap.'

Middleton said Intermap's product offerings included high resolution orthoimage mosaics and DEMs created from optical satellite imagery. 'IFSAR data is especially useful for obtaining elevation data over cloud-affected areas such as South East Asia. Having access to good quality elevation data in South East Asia that is not cloud-affected is a significant advantage for our clients.'

Intermap collects elevation data aerially, using aircraft equipped with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technology and supplements this with satellite acquired data to generate uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models and orthorectified imagery of the earth's surface.

Under the agreement with Intermap, Geoimage is distributing the NEXTMap digital elevation models and image products, including:

'¢    Digital surface models (DSMs) - a first reflective surface model that contains elevations of natural terrain features in addition to vegetation and cultural features such as buildings and roads.

'¢    Digital terrain models (DTMs) - a bare earth model that contains elevations of natural terrain features such as barren ridge tops and river valleys with elevations of vegetation and cultural features, such as buildings and roads, digitally removed.

'¢    Orthorectified radar images (ORIs) - a grayscale radar image of the earth's surface that has been corrected to remove geometric distortions caused by the terrain.