Pixxures Acquires Boyd GeoMatics

Pixxures Acquires Boyd GeoMatics

Pixxures, Inc. Canada announced today that it has purchased Calgary-based Boyd Geo-Matics, Ltd., a web-based provider of geospatial data, GIS software, aerial imagery, and mapping products. Boyd GeoMatics will operate as Pixxures Canada, Inc. Larry Herd will serve as both president of Pixxures Canada and Vice President of Internet Technology for Pixxures.

``This is another step in Pixxures' effort to eliminate the barriers that make digital imagery and mapping products difficult to access and acquire,'' said Brian Webster, president and chief executive officer of Pixxures. ``We are building one of the largest archives in the world, and with this acquisition we have the ability to deliver imagery to everyone at work and home.''

Pixxures, Inc., based in Golden, Colorado, owns a proprietary process that produces high-quality imagery, called digital orthophotography, much more efficiently and cost-effectively than any other known process. Pixxures' objective is to become the world's largest producer and distributor of digital aerial photography and satellite imagery over the Internet.

Boyd's software and image serving technology is the first Internet mapping tool that combines terabytes aerial imagery with mapping data on the desktop. It also provides the ability to connect multiple remote imagery libraries together in a ``virtual'' library. Professionals in local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as industries as diverse as real estate, utilities, insurance, oil and gas, telecommunications, natural resources and transportation, utilize digital mapping products for a wide range of planning and management decision making. The growth rate for digital mapping products will rise significantly with the advent of more affordable digital imagery and the powerful distribution capabilities of the Internet, as stated by Frost & Sullivan.

``This is an opportune time to join forces,'' Webster said. ``This acquisition allows us to accelerate Pixxures' Internet strategy to be a real-time imagery portal with a virtual network of image servers around the world providing customers quick and easy access to a large archive of imagery at affordable prices.''

For more information, see www.pixxures.com