Autodesk and Earth Resource Mapping Form Strategic Alliance.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1997--Continuing to solidify its commitment to the GIS and digital mapping Digitizing geographic information for a geographic information system (GIS). markets, Autodesk Inc. and Earth Resource Mapping, creators of the ER Mapper integrated mapping software, have entered into a strategic partnership. The companies will exchange technologies to create future products that benefit customers, as well as share marketing resources and sales distribution channels to provide complete mapping and GIS solutions for customers in the digital mapping and GIS markets. "Autodesk has pioneered the ability to produce and deliver technical solutions to a worldwide customer base," said Stuart Nixon, president of Earth Resource Mapping, based in Perth, Australia Perth may refer to:
Users from a variety of fields including parcel mapping, surveying, civil and design engineering, forestry, agricultural mapping, or mineral exploration, all require the ability to process and manipulate raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). and vector data. This strategic partnership between Autodesk and Earth Resource Mapping will let users of both image and GIS data have an integrated solution: ending the battle of stretching a GIS package to manipulate imagery or forcing image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished software to perform GIS functionality. Joe Astroth Joseph Henry Astroth (born September 1, 1922 in East Alton, Illinois) was a Catcher for the Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics (1945-46 and 1949-56). In 10 seasons he played in 544 Games, 1,579 At Bats, 163 Runs, 401 Hits, 51 Doubles, 10 Triples, 13 Home Runs, 156 RBI, 6 , vice president of the Autodesk GIS Market Group added: "Building strategic partnerships in the GIS industry is a fundamental part of Autodesk's growth strategy in the GIS market. We want to provide the best available tools and technologies to help our customers manage their assets and infrastructure. "ER Mapper is great technology and the company is an aggressive leader in bringing image handling technology to a wider audience by utilizing today's technology in a desktop environment. With the new high-resolution satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History The first satellite photographs of Earth were made August 14, 1959 by the US satellite Explorer 6. available over the next couple of years, our partnership with Earth Resource Mapping will let us provide state-of-the-art solutions for telecommunications, utility, natural resources and governmental infrastructure management." About Earth Resource Mapping Earth Resource Mapping, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Perth, Australia, develops and markets the No. 1 image processing and map production software, ER Mapper. Since 1989, ER Mapper has been used by a host of industries to fill applications for their image mapping needs including, Environment, Forestry, Engineering, Federal & Local governments, Telecommunications, and many others. ER Mapper is sold through a world-wide network of 352 resellers. For more information or to find out the nearest reseller, contact 619/558-4709, e-mail queries@ermapper.com, or visit the World Wide Web sit at http://www.ermapper.com . About Autodesk Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of PC design software and PC multimedia tools. The company's 2D and 3D products, geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to , and data management tools are used in many industries for mapping, architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , mechanical design, film and video production, video/game development and Web content development. Its Kinetix division is the leader in PC-based 3D modeling and animation software, providing a full range of products for digital media and design professionals. The fourth largest PC software company in the world, Autodesk has three million customers in over 140 countries. Autodesk products are sold through Autodesk Systems Centers, Dealers and Distributors worldwide. For more information on Autodesk, please call 415/507-5000, type GO ADESK on CompuServe, or visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.autodesk.com . Kinetix can be reached by calling 800/879-4233 or through its World Wide Web site at http://www.ktx.com . Autodesk shares are traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ADSK ADSK Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) . CONTACT: Autodesk, Inc. Kathy Tom Engle, 415/507-6794 kathy.tom@autodesk.com or Earth Resource Mapping Bob LaGrone, 619/558-4709 bob@ermapper.com |
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