Valtus Announces Significant New Coverage in Central Alberta Now Online
Thursday October 18th 2007
Filed Under Valtus
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - October 17, 2007 -
Valtus Imagery Services, a division of North West Geomatics Ltd. announced today that its imagery library in central Alberta is being updated with the completion of a large 40 cm colour acquisition program undertaken by North West. Approximately 170,000 km2 covering all of central Alberta was acquired. The imagery, collected in the summer and fall of 2007, is 40cm true colour ortho and was collected with the Leica ADS40-II sensor. The area of new coverage is between Calgary and Lacombe and from the Saskatchewan border to the British Columbia border.
The Valtus Imagery Services online database currently holds over 2 million square kilometers of high resolution imagery across Canada and the United States. Valtus provides annual subscriptions to seamlessly stream imagery directly into GIS and CAD Desktop Applications. In addition, Valtus hosts imagery on behalf of our customers allowing for wide distribution of reliable imagery web services.
“We continue to update the Valtus database with newer and higher resolution imagery. This large program continues with our systematic update program for our entire database. Based on direction from our customers, all new imagery added to the library will be 50cm or better resolution,” explains Kenyon Waugh, Valtus’ chief strategy officer.
“This update program began in the south in 2006 and is now continuing north. All acquisition is being undertaken with the new Leica ADS40-II sensor. This second generation technology provides higher quality imagery and a wider range of potential deliverables to our customers”, says Waugh “All of North West’s ADS40 imagery sensors have been upgraded to this second generation technology”.
The first updated 50cm imagery is now on-line and the remaining 40cm will be progressively up-loaded to Valtus over the next 6 weeks. A coverage map of Valuts Imagery can be found on Valtus’ website. The higher resolution imagery being collected by North West is being supported with a higher density auto-correlated digital surface model to facilitate the newer imagery.
About Valtus Imagery Services
Valtus Imagery Services is a Geospatial Storage Service Provider, delivering imagery from our large online library and managing and integrating our customers’ existing imagery holdings. Valtus’ technology utilizes open GIS protocols to allow high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery to be stored, managed and viewed instantly through a wide range of industry standard web-mapping products and desktop applications.
The company serves a broad base of markets including land management, surveying, oil and gas, agriculture, forestry, environmental management, real-estate, emergency response and all levels of government.
In addition, Valtus holds the largest private data base of LiDAR data in western Canada. Valtus provides significant imagery content and capability to our customers through our partnerships with leading satellite imagery and aerial photography firms.
About North West Geomatics Ltd.
North West Geomatics Ltd. is a leading aerial photography and remote sensing firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It owns and operates 6 aircraft, including a Lear 25 and 3 Cessna 441 Conquests and it conducts aerial photography and LiDAR operations throughout North and South America. In 2006 North West became a totally digital imagery acquisition shop employing the latest Leica ADS40-II digital sensor. It is one of the primary acquisition contractors to the US government and is the owner of the largest private ortho imagery data base in Canada. This imagery data base is Internet distributed through its Valtus Imagery Services subsidiary which serves up to 100,000 images per day. North West is an ISO9000 registered firm and employs over 50 staff.