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Market : July-August 1999
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RMSI Alliance with OYO Corp
ArcInfo 8 released
Meta Data Browser in Beta
CARTERRA Analyst Integrates RS and GIS
Infotech Enterprises to buy Cartographic Sciences
ADCC bags Land Record Project
Geographic Software Systems bags German order
GIS Database for 39 Forests
GIS - Delhi 99
RMSI Alliance with OYO Corp
Japan’s OYO Corporation with revenues over US$550 million has entered into a strategic alliance with RMSI for providing GIS services, software development and risk engineering services. OYO will obtain from RMSI its technical and production capabilities including software development and data conversion. OYO will market RMSI’s services in Japan.
ArcInfo 8 released
Easy to use, fast and modern
Jack Dangermond, founder and President of ESRI launched ArcInfo 8, the latest release in the company’s flagship and is scheduled for general release during the third quarter of 1999, and the latest internet map software, ArcIMS 3. ArcInfo 8 is completely redesigned and engineered, easy-to-use, fast, modern, and powerful GIS product. Features of ArcInfo 8 are that it makes sophisticated GIS and more usable with its new user interface features. It is coupled with three new applications ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox with two primary geographic data models-the georelational and geodatabase models, and Personal ArcSDE 8.
Meta Data Browser in Beta
Access to NSDI clearinghouse
On August 3, 1999 - MapInfo, using web crawler technology, made avail-able a beta of their Meta Data Browser (MMDB) for download and testing. MapInfo says the product "enables the end-user to collect information about geospatial data, available from various clearinghouses, and to compare and analyse the delivered metadata." MMDB can directly access all currently active NSDI Clearinghouses. It can communicate with any new private or governmental clearinghouse created in accordance to the FGDC Content Standard for Geospatial Metadata which supports the ANSI Z39.50. According to MapInfo, MMDB can be used for various inquiries regarding geospatial data, such as Does the data exist? Where is the requested data and how may I purchase it? Does this data fit my needs?
CARTERRA Analyst Integrates RS and GIS
Space Imaging announced today the immediate availability of the new CARTERRA(TM) Analyst software product, built for PC and Unix systems, that integrates commercial remote sensing and GIS software products into one convenient package, enabling space imaging customers to have a one-stop shop for all of their satellite imagery and data handling needs. The images include Space Imaging’s 5-meter resolution images from Indian Remote Sensing satellites and 25-meter resolution images from the U.S. Landsat satellite, as well as future images that will be collected by systems such as Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite.
Infotech Enterprises to buy Cartographic Sciences
Infotech Enterprises has announced plans to buy Cartographic Sciences, a fully-owned Indian subsidiary of the US-based Analytical Services Inc (ASI) aimed at synergising both the companies capabilities in data conversion and software services. Infotech and ASI have agreed to modify their existing technical service agreement providing for Infotech to supply data conversion, software programming and photogrammetric compilation services. The agreement cements the relationship between the two companies and is expected to boost their revenues and strengthen their capability in the GIS industry. The modified agreement shall guarantee a minimum of Rs. 142 crores ($33 millions) of work to Infotech over a five-year period.
ADCC bags Land Record Project
Digitisation of Cadastral Maps
ADCC Cad Division, Nagpur recently have bagged one of the pilot projects for digitisation of cadastral maps and corresponding query shell development from the Office of Commissioner, Land Records and Settlement, Gwalior, M.P.
ADCC, which is the sole GIS Partner of Autodesk Inc. (USA) in Central India has several GIS projects from Remote Sensing Agencies in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to its credit. By acquiring the project of Land Records from Gwalior, it has added one more feather to its cap.
Geographic Software Systems bags German order
Geographic Software Systems (P) Ltd (GSSPL), launched by IVL India Ltd, a leading software firm at the Technopark campus, has secured the order for digitising 5,000 maps for Flensburg, a county in Germany. As a result of this technology, all the demographic data of a map is available at finger tips. Intelligence has also come into maps. Loads of information pertaining to a city are now available to the authorities. The first batch of maps has already been delivered. A systems analyst at GSSPL said, "All that we receive from Germany is a scanned image of a particular place with all the data. It normally takes two days to finish a simple map, while a complex one involving a number of objects takes almost five days".
GIS Database for 39 Forests
The Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre (AERCC), at the Indian Institute of Science, has brought out the GIS database for 39 forest divisions comprising the four Project Elephant reserves in South India out of 10 designated Project Elephant reserves throughout the country.The GIS database has identified the Sathyamangalam forest division, the Indira Gandhi sanctuary (Tamil Nadu), the Bandipur Project Tiger Reserve and the Hunsur Forest Division (Karnataka) as having high elephant distribution areas and "conservation values" which reflect varying potential for both elephant and biodiversity conservation strategies and funding. Since the habitat is spread over a large area across the four States, there are dangers of habitat fragmentation. So it is important to maintain habitat contiguity through protection, acquisition and creation of corridors.
GIS - Delhi 99
Use accurate street data
GIS-Delhi 99 is a comprehensive GIS about Delhi and its surroundings including Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Noida. Softech International Pvt. Ltd. has introduced this package. With detail maps using complete, accurate Delhi street data, one can not only locate streets, addresses and their places of interest, but can also find out the shortest possible route between two places. Routing is displayed graphically as well as by text. The Journey Planner can provide complete details of journey planned either in India or abroad and can help to book flights, make hotel and trains reservations, etc. It also has the provision for printing and e-mailing anything. It can also print the desired information, be it a map, specific route of his interest, flight information/train information.
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