News 2010 November 30, 2010
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November 30, 2010 RICHMOND HILL, ON & CALGARY,
AB, CANADA—Applanix Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trimble and
developer and manufacturer of advanced products and solutions for mobile
mapping and positioning, and ITRES Research Limited, a leader in the
commercial airborne remote sensing industry with high-performance hyperspectral
and thermal airborne mapping imagers, announced today they have entered into an OEM supply agreement. "This agreement is the
culmination of our long-standing relationship with ITRES, who has been offering
and integrating Applanix POS AV for over 10 years now. We are pleased that
ITRES recognizes the unique value of our technology and plans to use both POS
AV and POSTrack to add value to its systems globally,” said Applanix President
Steven Woolven. “Applanix’ precision GNSS plus inertial
technology is an excellent complement to our high performance systems. Applanix POS AV mirrors the precision and
performance of our own airborne hyperspectral and thermal imagers,” said Doug
Davison, President and CEO of ITRES. ITRES optical imaging systems operate throughout the electromagnetic
spectrum which includes the visible-near infrared (VNIR), shortwave infrared
(SWIR), midwave infrared (MWIR) and longwave thermal infrared (LWIR). They use custom designed and high-grade
sensor arrays, advanced custom optics, and state-of-the-art noise suppression technology
to provide the best possible imagery.
ITRES mapping sensor systems are laser scanner-ready, fully calibrated,
and can be applied to a vast assortment of applications including environmental
assessment, water quality, forestry management, wetlands mapping, utility
corridor mapping, geology and mineral characterizations, heat-loss and thermal
anomaly mapping, emergency response, target detection and many more. The Applanix POS AV consists of hardware and software specifically designed
for direct georeferencing airborne sensor data, thereby improving the
efficiency of data collection and the map production process. With integrated
precision GNSS and inertial technology, POS AV is engineered for use with
aerial cameras, imaging sensors, synthetic aperture radar, and laser scanning
technology. POS AV includes features
such as in-air initialization, leveling of stabilized mounts, automatic drift
correction, GNSS position translation using encoder data from stabilized
mounts, and the generation of Exterior Orientation of each image for the mapping
process. The Applanix POSTrack is a flight management system for airborne cameras
with integrated POS AV, delivering high levels of direct georeferencing
accuracy and efficiency for airborne mapping sensors, as well as real-time
sensor control and pilot guidance. Flight management features include
mission planning, automatic stabilized mount control, and automatic camera
triggering at pre-planned intervals. The POSPac Mobile Mapping Suite
(MMS) software, featuring the Applanix IN-Fusion™ technology and SmartBase™
module, can also be integrated with POSTrack.
POSPac MMS enables airborne missions to be flown with higher reliability
and in less time. Learn more about Applanix at www.applanix.com and ITRES Research Limited at www.itres.com. ABOUT APPLANIX ITRES RESEARCH LIMITED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: |