The first high resolution
satellite imageries became available for the public
in the commercial meaning once the IKONOS satellite
was launched in September 1999.
Since the very beginning, our company was able
to foresee the advantages of using high resolution
satellite imagery for areas such as: Urban development
planning, Cadastral maps management, bringing
up to date the topographical maps at the specific
scales, disaster management, agriculture, forest
development and others.
We have been carrying out and we are still performing
an intense campaign for promoting the utilization
of 1 m and below 1 m per pixel resolution satellite
imagery, their efficiency being at the maximum
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In
what regards the maximum optimization of this
product, in the form that we are presenting it
to our clients, taking into account the Romanian
market in particular, we have developed our own
orthorectification system for the satellite imageries
using a world known software and project-based
methods, applied when and where necessary by our
team of specialists. In this manner we are able
to obtain semnificant decrease of the costs, which
leads to important decrease of the price for the
final product.
Among the most important projects developed and
accomplished by Inteligis we would like to mention
about the updating and completing topographic
plans at 1:5000 scale used for the General Urban
Plans. This particular project already includes
over 3.700 sqkm, representing approximate 64%
of the total area of the county.
Besides the projects mentioned above, we have
also developed and completed GIS data sets starting
from IKONOS 1 meter resolution satellite imageries
for some of the cities in the United States of
America, and we could count the cities of Moore,
Durant and Sapulpa, all from the Oklahoma state
and for the city of Maumee, OH. The Moore Project
was a consequence of the tornado that affected
the city in the year 2000. Currently we are involved
in the development of an urban GIS for the City
Hall of the city of Toledo together with our partner
from the United States of America, Dr. Christopher
Shove.
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