徕卡(Leica)收购ER Mapper

3sNews讯，Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging宣布获得澳大利亚Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper)的所有资产，已补充现有产品线。以下是相关报道。

Norcross, GA -- Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that it has acquired all assets of Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper), a geospatial software company headquartered in Australia. ER Mapper is a world-class provider of geospatial uploadfilery processing solutions that prepare, manage, compress and deploy uploadfilery, thus complementing Leica Geosystems’ existing product portfolio.

The company is the first to market in delivering a new, high performance server application, Image Web Server (IWS), specifically made for the enterprise environment. Designed to manage and distribute large uploadfile datasets, IWS provides users access to uploadfilery with unprecedented speed, which is key to utilizing geospatial intelligence within the enterprise. Additionally, as a leader in the development of uploadfile compression techniques, ER Mapper brings this patented technology to enhance existing products and future development of geospatial solutions. Moving forward, the ER Mapper and Leica Geosystems product portfolios will be maintained and new solutions will be developed using existing technologies of both companies.

“The acquisition of ER Mapper brings new, leading enterprise technology to the Leica Geosystems portfolio of solutions,” said Bob Morris, President and CEO, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. “This supports our strategy of providing geospatial information to much larger, enterprise-wide markets. We also gain additional market access to industries such as mineral exploration, oil and gas exploration, telecommunications and utilities, complementing our own depth of expertise in natural resources.”

ER Mapper has clients around the world, with a particularly strong foothold and in Southeast Asia and Australia that, when combined with Leica Geosystems’s strengths in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific markets, creates a much stronger global enterprise.

“Providing enterprise-level customization & integration services, consultancy, commercial off-the-shelf software products and software development kits to clients around the world, ER Mapper is a strong company that brings new technology, new access to industries and immediate revenue to Leica Geosystems,” said Guy Perkins, President, Earth Resource Mapping. “We look forward to incorporating our products and technology into the solution mix, bringing geospatial intelligence to the enterprise environment.”

The acquisition was made for an undisclosed amount, with an anticipated close date of June 29, 2007.


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关于Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging

When building uploadfile-based maps, you need reliable measurements and solutions for your entire workflow. So when it has to be right, more geospatial professionals trust Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging to help them collect, analyze, and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems is powering geospatial imaging by putting precise imaging to work. Its broad array of photogrammetry and remote sensing software solutions capture data efficiently, reference uploadfilery accurately, measure and analyze easily and present spatial information, even in 3D. Those who use Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging products every day trust them for their precision, their seamless integration, and their superior customer support. Delivering geospatial imaging solutions with precision, integration, and service from Leica Geosystems. When it has to be right.

Leica Geosystems is part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. For more information about Leica Geosystems or its products and services, call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit gi.leica-geosystems.com.

关于Earth Resource Mapping

Earth Resource Mapping（简称ERM）公司成立于1989年，总部设在澳大利亚的西佩思，是世界上著名的桌面图像处理软件和影像压缩软件供应商。在广大用户的支持 下，ERM公司一直保持持续稳定的发展，其商业合作伙伴遍布全球。在欧洲、美洲、亚太地区均设有分支机构或代理商。

ERM公司研发的系列软件包括大型专业影像处理软件ER Mapper、影像压缩软件ECW以及影像网上发布软件IWS，全面为您提供从图像处理到图像网上发布的全面影像解决方案。

ER Mapper是大型专业的影像处理软件，在政府、环保、电信、国防安全、农业、森林防火、石油天然气以及矿业等都有成功的应用。

IWS是专业海量影像数据网上发布软件。IWS应用图像压缩技术把海量数据放到Intranet网上或者Internet上，用户可以非常容易的通过 网络来共享海量影像数据。甚至用户还可以把海量数据压制成CD-ROM来发送影像数据，有了IWS,使地图浏览和保存变的简单容易。

ECW是专业的、优秀的影像压缩软件。在影像压缩的应用中，对图像进行无损压缩至关重要的，利用ECW就可以轻松达到这个目的。ECW可以应用在诸如ArcView?、MapInfo?、AutoCAD Map? 以及 Microsoft? Office等桌面软件。 ECW支持多种数据格式，并且压缩比例很高，可以将1T的图像很快压缩到只有1G,压缩后的影像几乎和原图效果一样。