3sNews訊，Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging宣布獲得澳大利亞Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper)的所有資產，已補充現有產品線。以下是相關報道。

Norcross, GA -- Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that it has acquired all assets of Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper), a geospatial software company headquartered in Australia. ER Mapper is a world-class provider of geospatial uploadfilery processing solutions that prepare, manage, compress and deploy uploadfilery, thus complementing Leica Geosystems’ existing product portfolio.

The company is the first to market in delivering a new, high performance server application, Image Web Server (IWS), specifically made for the enterprise environment. Designed to manage and distribute large uploadfile datasets, IWS provides users access to uploadfilery with unprecedented speed, which is key to utilizing geospatial intelligence within the enterprise. Additionally, as a leader in the development of uploadfile compression techniques, ER Mapper brings this patented technology to enhance existing products and future development of geospatial solutions. Moving forward, the ER Mapper and Leica Geosystems product portfolios will be maintained and new solutions will be developed using existing technologies of both companies.

“The acquisition of ER Mapper brings new, leading enterprise technology to the Leica Geosystems portfolio of solutions,” said Bob Morris, President and CEO, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. “This supports our strategy of providing geospatial information to much larger, enterprise-wide markets. We also gain additional market access to industries such as mineral exploration, oil and gas exploration, telecommunications and utilities, complementing our own depth of expertise in natural resources.”

ER Mapper has clients around the world, with a particularly strong foothold and in Southeast Asia and Australia that, when combined with Leica Geosystems’s strengths in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific markets, creates a much stronger global enterprise.

“Providing enterprise-level customization & integration services, consultancy, commercial off-the-shelf software products and software development kits to clients around the world, ER Mapper is a strong company that brings new technology, new access to industries and immediate revenue to Leica Geosystems,” said Guy Perkins, President, Earth Resource Mapping. “We look forward to incorporating our products and technology into the solution mix, bringing geospatial intelligence to the enterprise environment.”

The acquisition was made for an undisclosed amount, with an anticipated close date of June 29, 2007.


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關于Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging

When building uploadfile-based maps, you need reliable measurements and solutions for your entire workflow. So when it has to be right, more geospatial professionals trust Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging to help them collect, analyze, and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems is powering geospatial imaging by putting precise imaging to work. Its broad array of photogrammetry and remote sensing software solutions capture data efficiently, reference uploadfilery accurately, measure and analyze easily and present spatial information, even in 3D. Those who use Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging products every day trust them for their precision, their seamless integration, and their superior customer support. Delivering geospatial imaging solutions with precision, integration, and service from Leica Geosystems. When it has to be right.

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關于Earth Resource Mapping

Earth Resource Mapping（簡稱ERM）公司成立于1989年，總部設在澳大利亞的西佩思，是世界上著名的桌面圖像處理軟件和影像壓縮軟件供應商。在廣大用戶的支持 下，ERM公司一直保持持續(xù)穩(wěn)定的發(fā)展，其商業(yè)合作伙伴遍布全球。在歐洲、美洲、亞太地區(qū)均設有分支機構或代理商。

ERM公司研發(fā)的系列軟件包括大型專業(yè)影像處理軟件ER Mapper、影像壓縮軟件ECW以及影像網上發(fā)布軟件IWS，全面為您提供從圖像處理到圖像網上發(fā)布的全面影像解決方案。

ER Mapper是大型專業(yè)的影像處理軟件，在政府、環(huán)保、電信、國防安全、農業(yè)、森林防火、石油天然氣以及礦業(yè)等都有成功的應用。

IWS是專業(yè)海量影像數據網上發(fā)布軟件。IWS應用圖像壓縮技術把海量數據放到Intranet網上或者Internet上，用戶可以非常容易的通過 網絡來共享海量影像數據。甚至用戶還可以把海量數據壓制成CD-ROM來發(fā)送影像數據，有了IWS,使地圖瀏覽和保存變的簡單容易。

ECW是專業(yè)的、優(yōu)秀的影像壓縮軟件。在影像壓縮的應用中，對圖像進行無損壓縮至關重要的，利用ECW就可以輕松達到這個目的。ECW可以應用在諸如ArcView?、MapInfo?、AutoCAD Map? 以及 Microsoft? Office等桌面軟件。 ECW支持多種數據格式，并且壓縮比例很高，可以將1T的圖像很快壓縮到只有1G,壓縮后的影像幾乎和原圖效果一樣。