Intermap Technologies Announces $3.2 Million Contract for NEXTMap USA Geospatial Data.DENVER -- Intermap Technologies Corp. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :IMP.TO) (AIM:IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol .L) today announced that its Intermap Federal Services subsidiary has been awarded a US$3.2 million contract to provide imagery and elevation data from the company's NEXTMap USA geospatial datasets. Included in the license for 773,889 square kilometers of data across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is the first purchase of a data license for the entire state of California. Intermap will supply the California data immediately and will deliver other areas over the next few quarters as they are collected. Included in the deliverables are high-accuracy digital surface models, digital terrain models and high-resolution orthorectified radar imagery Imagery produced by recording radar waves reflected from a given target surface. . "This is an important sale for the company as it confirms the market's need to have immediate access to accurate digital elevation data for large areas," commented Brian Bullock, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Intermap Technologies. "To date, this sale brings the total license revenue for NEXTMap USA data to approximately US$6 million." Intermap is continuing to proactively re-map entire countries throughout the world and has delivered data to numerous buyers including county governments, municipalities and commercial customers. Currently, the company has data available off-the-shelf for 505 counties in the U.S., all of Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , and numerous areas in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . Germany is the next whole country that Intermap will add to the NEXTMap inventory. About Intermap Technologies Intermap enables customers to facilitate better decision-making and create applications for numerous commercial, governmental, military, and consumer products through the purchase of high quality and affordable elevation datasets. The company is proactively remapping entire countries and building unprecedented national databases, called NEXTMap, consisting of highly accurate digital topographic maps that include elevation data. Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new commercial applications are emerging, including geographical information systems (GIS), engineering planning, transportation, automotive, navigation, flood, irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. , environmental management and planning, telecommunications/wireless network planning, aviation, simulation, and 3D visualization. Internet applications include virtual tours, topographic maps and computer games. Datasets are also used to add interactive intelligence to airborne and satellite imagery. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap employs more than 275 people worldwide, with offices in Calgary, Ottawa, Munich, and Jakarta. For more information, visit www.intermap.com. |
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