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Visual Learning Systems Honored by ESRI
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MISSOULA, Montana – Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS) is pleased to announce its selection as New Partner of the Year by ESRI at the annual Business Partner’s Conference in Palm Springs, California. The New Partner of the Year award recognizes outstanding contributions to the GIS community by ESRI Business Partners within the past three years. With over 1,400 business partners worldwide, ESRI honored VLS for its development of the ArcGIS extension, Feature Analyst®, which is commonly referred to as the “first feature extraction tool that actually works.”
“Visual Learning Systems has developed an important extension to ArcGIS,” commented Pete Zubowicz, Business Development Manager, ESRI Northwest. “Feature Analyst is an innovative software system that automatically analyzes data from high-resolution remote sensing imagery. In recognition of their extraordinary efforts, ESRI is pleased to award Visual Learning Systems the 2003 New Business Partner of the Year.”
In 2002, Feature Analyst earned first place as the Most Innovative Solution in ESRI’s ArcGIS Challenge Contest. Feature Analyst makes it easy to lift geospatial information from digital imagery in a vector format. Feature Analyst’s simple workflow, accuracy, and tight integration with ArcGIS unlocks the rich content found within imagery for all GIS users. In 2004, VLS added over 4,000 licensed Feature Analyst users in the Defense and Intelligence, Academic, Natural Resource, and Local Government markets. “VLS is honored by this recognition from ESRI,” said VLS CEO David Opitz. “In the past two years our business relationship with ESRI has grown significantly and we expect that trend to continue. The VLS and ESRI synergy promises to make a prominent and beneficial impact on the GIS industry.”
About VLS
Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS) is a worldwide leader in designing feature extraction and image understanding software and provides software distribution, professional training, feature extraction services, and customized programming. The VLS flagship software product Feature Analyst is used worldwide for GIS database management and mapping applications supporting Defense and Intelligence, Homeland Security, Local Government, Forestry, Agriculture, Education, Transportation, and Environmental projects. All 50 U.S. States, over 50 countries, and nearly 100 universities use Feature Analyst. Fitting within existing workflows, Feature Analyst is an extension to ESRI’s ArcGIS suite, ERDAS IMAGINE®, and coming soon SOCET SET®. The first annual Feature Analyst User’s Conference, intended to be a meeting of the minds for feature extraction, is scheduled for September 13-15 in Missoula, Montana. Download a free evaluation copy of Feature Analyst at www.featureanalyst.com
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