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SpatialNews.com Press Release
Intermap Completes World's Most Ambitious Mapping Project
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LONDON--Sept. 5, 2003--The world's most ambitious landscape mapping project has been completed over Britain. Using advanced airborne radar first developed for the US military, the entire country has been mapped electronically in 3D. Acquired from a Learjet flying at 450 mph at an altitude of 20,000-28,000 ft, the data is captured with unparalleled accuracy, mapping the land every 5 metres with an elevation accurate to 50cm.
The result is an enormous digital database with over 8 billion elevation points forming a truly revolutionary map called NEXTMap Britain. The entire commercial project is the work of Intermap Technologies backed initially by Norwich Union the UK's largest insurance group, who are already using the data for flood risk assessments.
The original project area, which includes the whole of England and Wales and lowland Scotland is now complete and the data can be selected for purchase and download from the Internet. Today Intermap announces a new flying programme in Northern Scotland, that will see the Highlands and Islands mapped with unprecedented accuracy.
NEXTMap Britain is the first time an entire country has been fully mapped in one continuous sweep and also the first time it has been done without government funding. Thanks to the new technology, work that took Ordnance Survey decades to complete using traditional land survey methods has been completed in a few months. Intermap now plans to map all the worlds key industrialised countries and are already working on a number of other NEXTMap countrywide programs.
Intermap has joined forces with Getmapping, the company behind the ambitious UK-wide aerial photographic survey, the now-famous Millennium Map. Today (9/9/03) the two companies will co-host a special event called 'Photoscape' at the Royal Geographical Society. This will be the first public viewing of the completed NEXTMap Britain map and will launch 'Photoscape', a whole range applications that combine the terrain data and Getmapping aerial imagery to create computer generated landscapes.
With offices in Calgary, Ottawa, and Denver, Colorado and Munich, Germany, Intermap produces digital elevation models, orthorectified images and thematic maps from proprietary processes that include airborne interferometric radar technology. Intermap data provides a precise model of the shape of the earth's surface with unprecedented accuracy. Data is used to create 3D visualisations, topographic maps, and to give intelligence to airborne and satellite images. Intermap's Master Reseller in the UK is Getmapping, www.getmapping.com.
Contact William Allbrook on tel. 01666 826641 (07748654283)
For the Photoscape event, call Pete Bonham at Getmapping on 01252 849468
Intermap Technologies contact is Garth Lawrence, 001 303 708-0955, Ext. 201, www.intermaptechnologies.com
NOTE: Call William Allbrook on 01666 826641 for a stunning high resolution image showing Snowdonia, UK as a computer generated 3D landscape
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