Merrick & Blue Marble Geographics Announce Business Partnership

Tuesday August 14th 2007
Filed Under Merrick & Company 



Aurora, Colorado, August 14, 2007 – Merrick & Company, a world leader in LiDAR, digital
ortho imaging, photogrammetry and GIS mapping is pleased to announce the establishment of a business partnership with Blue Marble Geographics of Gardiner, Maine. Blue Marble’s coordinate conversion technology is used worldwide by thousands of geospatial analysts at software companies, universities, oil and gas companies, civil engineering, surveying,

technology, enterprise GIS groups, government and military organizations.

Patrick Cunningham, CEO, Blue Marble Geographics, states, “This new relationship

exposes the entire Blue Marble product suite to the LiDAR industry, which gives us the

opportunity to support many non-traditional geospatial users. In addition, the integration of the

Blue Marble tools into MARS® Explorer provides end-users with the ability to reproject LAS files
and translate vector datasets from a single user interface.”

Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is developed and sold by Merrick& Company, a full-service engineering firm headquartered in Aurora, Colorado. MARS® is a
production-quality Windows application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and

managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance
for massive LiDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field

collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows.

About Merrick & Company

Founded in Denver in 1955, Merrick & Company is a world-leading multidisciplinary engineering,

architectural, geospatial solutions, and construction management firm. The employee-owned

company provides these services to municipal, state, federal, and private-sector clients. With

approximately 400 employees, Merrick has offices in Aurora and Colorado Springs, CO; Los

Alamos and Albuquerque, NM; and Atlanta, GA. Learn more at www.merrick.com/gis

About Blue Marble Geographics

Blue Marble Geographics of Gardiner, Maine is a leading developer and provider of geographic

software products that provide sensible solutions for users and developers of geographic data.

Blue Marble has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for 14 years and currently serves

hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Learn more at www.bluemarblegeo.com

Contact:

Bill Emison, MARS® Product Manager
Merrick & Company

2450 South Peoria Street

Aurora, Colorado 80014-5472

Office: 800.544.1714, ext. 3634

Mobile: 303.884.6004

Email: Bill.Emison@Merrick.com

WWW: http://www.merrick.com/MARS