Intermap Technologies

Intermap Technologies

Company type	Public
Founded	January 1996
Headquarters	Douglas County, CO USA
Key people	Todd Oseth, President and CEO
Number of employees	195
Website	www.intermap.com

Intermap Technologies (TSX: IMP) is a Canadian-registered publicly traded company headquartered in Douglas County, Colorado, United States, and traded on the Toronto stock exchange. A global industry leader, Intermap provides location-based answers with its secure, cloud-based Orion Platform®. Through its powerful suite of 3D Business Intelligence (3DBI®) software and applications, geospatial services, and proprietary development of contiguous databases, the Orion Platform provides simple geospatial solutions for customers and governments in diverse markets around the world. Solutions include software products for risk planning, military analysis, and business intelligence; data management, and a professional services team ready to custom build any required solution.

Intermap was the first company to collect, aggregate, and commercialize geospatial data from around the world. Intermap has decades of experience helping both geospatial experts and non-GIS professionals leverage its products, services, and solutions so they can quickly and accurately solve problems while increasing productivity and decreasing costs.

Intermap maintains a Quality Management System that is compliant with ISO 9001:2008 standards, and has been certified by Underwriter Laboratories DQS, Inc. since 1999. All process documents and work instructions are available to all staff, at all locations, and online through a central repository that is controlled by strict configuration management practices.

History

Intermap was formed on January 31, 1996, and commenced active business operations on September 1, 1996. On November 11, 1996, the company acquired all of the assets comprising the image mapping services division of Intera Information Technologies Corporation (IITC). Many of the senior members of Intermap’s original management team were employees of IITC. Intermap originally focused on providing 3D digital elevation maps for customers under specific contract arrangements. Typically, these projects specified areas to be mapped and were generally procured by governmental mapping and/or defense agencies. Flood Modeling History

Intermap’s vast experience with elevation data led to involvement in flood modeling projects nearly two decades ago. The company successfully completed a project in the Czech Republic and started working with the Czech Insurance Association in 1997, helping them implement a complete flood hazard mapping of the country, as well as distribution of this data to all insurance providers. Intermap’s flood modeling expertise has since become a standard in the European insurance industry and other regions around the world. China, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia use Intermap’s flood models.

Flood Modeling History

Intermap’s vast experience with elevation data led to involvement in flood modeling projects nearly two decades ago. The company successfully completed a project in the Czech Republic and started working with the Czech Insurance Association in 1997, helping them implement a complete flood hazard mapping of the country, as well as distribution of this data to all insurance providers. Intermap’s flood modeling expertise has since become a standard in the European insurance industry and other regions around the world. China, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia use Intermap’s flood models.

Software

Orion Platform

The Orion Platform enables governments and commercial enterprises to manage their entire spatial data infrastructure from one unified control point. The proprietary development implemented into The Orion Platform provides quick location-based solutions for customers around the world through its powerful suite of 3DBI applications and contiguous databases, fusing volumes of geospatial data into a single source. In late 2014, the Orion Control Center was launched. Designed to ingest, integrate, analyze, and communicate information, the OCC connects spatial and location-based data from across an organization or government. Applications are built directly on top of the OCC to promptly address specific needs and solutions — these may include desktop applications and mobile Web-based applications.

The Orion Command Center connects all data sources into a single analytical processing engine and allows customized analytics to be performed. Users are able to understand changing situations, evaluate potential responses, communicate with first responders, and monitor results.

LinkPro®

LinkPro combines Intermap’s 5-meter posted, 1-meter vertical RMSE NEXTMap® clutter height data with user-defined tower locations and key planning tools into one convenient and easy-to-use SaaS application. Aimed at cell carriers, infrastructure planning companies, telco service companies, MLP software providers, and cell tower owners, LinkPro provides customers with in-depth terrain and clutter analysis for any potential link in the continental U.S. or Europe, including instant feedback and visual validation, with the click of a mouse. This allows telcos and planners to instantly analyze and view their network links, and filter a complex spider Web to a classified and rankable network that can help simplify the front end of their planning and development workflow of 4G WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks globally.

In 2012, LinkPro licensed two leading global telecommunications carriers for the planning and development of their 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks in Europe.

AdPro®

AdPro is a SaaS application specifically designed for creative agencies and media buyers to evaluate the advertising potential of any Out-of-Home (OOH) location including static billboards, digital billboards, posters, city walls, bus shelters, urban furniture, shopping malls, retail locations, sports arenas, concert venues, and street corners. AdPro allows media buyers to understand and measure the drivers of a successful location-based campaign including area demographics, proximity to points of interest, traffic analysis, exposure time, and viewing approach.

In 2014, AdPro v3.2 was launched. Users can analyze market-level campaigns using Traffic Audit Bureau (TAB) ratings for reach, frequency and impressions to quickly pinpoint the perfect audience. AdPro v3.2 allows users to evaluate and select the best locations for their OOH campaigns by offering integrated access to standardized TAB ratings.

The TAB OOH ratings are standardized, quantitative, and reliable - providing exhaustive demographic information across the entire United States. TAB ratings have been unanimously voted the official currency for OOH measurement in the country. Intermap has worked closely with TAB to develop this latest release.

GeoPro™

GeoPro is a software application designed specifically to serve disparate spatial information and associated analytics to end users of Web and desktop applications. GeoPro is purpose-built for turning big data into smart decisions. GeoPro allows users (from novice to geospatial expert) to turn diverse geospatial data into easy-to-use information.

GeoPro turns complex data into simple answers, and delivers the ability to answer questions and normalize information by easily connecting hundreds of geospatial and other data formats. Connected datasets, both real time and static, are integrated to produce a single normalized data stream.

InsitePro™

InsitePro is a Web-based application that provides fast, address-specific risk information for locations anywhere in the world, helping insurers, brokers, and risk managers make more informed decisions about managing risk. InsitePro calculates risk by using Intermap’s high-resolution terrain information as a foundation for the fusion of geospatial and satellite data, public records, and third-party datasets. The result is a powerful tool that can be used to analyze, visualize, and present risk information on a variety of perils, including flood, fire, and landslide.

At the end of 2014, Intermap announced the availability of InsitePro for Pipelines — a customized version of InsitePro created specifically for hazardous liquid pipeline operators throughout North America. InsitePro for Pipelines enables risk-based decision-making and improved environmental and regulatory compliance by providing immediate, up-to-date, simple access to geo-hazards and high consequence areas (HCAs).

Acquisition and Services

The company has been collecting elevation data with its proprietary radar systems for more than 30 years. Intermap meets the challenge of its mission through the use of its proprietary interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) technology. IFSAR is a well established remote sensing technology for obtaining high-resolution elevation data and corresponding orthorectified radar images of the earth’s surface from airborne and spaceborne platforms. IFSAR provides a cost-effective method of large-area data collection that results in highly accurate regional and national mapping products. Since the commercialization of its IFSAR technology in 1996, Intermap has continued to invest significantly in research and development. Improvements in sensor technology, processing tools, and workflows have helped Intermap make significant leaps in the quality and accuracy of the data collected, which has helped keep prices competitive.

IFSAR remote sensing systems are capable of generating topographic data with accuracies measured in centimeters. These systems rely on electromagnetic energy of a specific wavelength to collect information about their targets or the terrain they image. IFSAR is an active remote sensing system that illuminates the terrain with focused electromagnetic energy in the form of radar signals which are reflected back to the aircraft and recorded.

Intermap’s IFSAR digital elevation model (DEM) and image products include digital surface models, digital terrain models, and orthorectified radar imagery.

Data Fusion

Intermap uses a proprietary fusion process to align datasets and potentially remove small project errors such as tilt, bias, shear-lines, mis-registration and gaps in coverage, creating a seamless database that is more accurate than any product on its own.

Using this technique, Intermap models and corrects systematic errors to produce improved higher resolution elevation data, such as that of LiDAR technologies. The high resolution data is also normalized to Intermap’s consistent NEXTMap data, removing any bias and planar tilts, further increasing the overall accuracy of the data. The combined improvements are applied to the full resolution LiDAR data, unlocking their full potential for government and large geospatial users.

Data

Intermap’s IFSAR digital elevation model (DEM) and image products include:

• Digital surface models (DSMs). A topographic model of the earth’s surface that includes buildings, vegetation, roads, and natural terrain features. The key benefit of the DSM is that it provides a geometrically correct base map.
• Digital terrain models (DTMs). A "bare earth" topographic model that has had vegetation, buildings, and other cultural features digitally removed, enabling users to infer terrain characteristics possibly hidden in the DSM.
• Orthorectified radar images (ORIs), a grayscale image of the earth’s surface that has been corrected to remove geometric distortions, accentuating topographic features far more than is possible with aerial photography.

The data, once processed, is included in nationwide digital elevation datasets called NEXTMap.

NEXTMap®

In 2002, Intermap commenced its NEXTMap program, which is focused on collecting and processing 3D digital elevation datasets for entire countries, including Great Britain (published 2003), countries in Western Europe (completed in July 2008), the United States (completed in June 2010), and Southeast Asia. After data collection, the company sells the use of its data through licensing agreements. To date, Intermap has collected high-resolution NEXTMap data for 54 countries.

NEXTMap World 30™

Intermap’s NEXTMap World 30 digital surface model (DSM) provides seamless, best available surface elevation data with a 30-meter ground sampling distance (GSD), enabling more efficient geospatial analyses. NEXTMap World 30 DSM data for the entire globe, covering all of the countries of the world, is currently available.

Intermap’s enterprise workflow allows for the integration of elevation datasets from around the world to provide best-of-class elevation models with a range of accuracies starting at five vertical meters. NEXTMap World 30 DSM is a combination of 90-meter Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) v2.1 data, 30-meter ASTER Global DEM v2.0, and 1-kilometer GTOPO which has been ground controlled using LiDAR data from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) collection, resulting in a 25-centimeter root mean square error (RMSE) dataset for vertical control of the DSM. The resulting product is a 30-meter GSD DSM that covers the entire land mass of the planet. The vertical accuracy RMSE of the product is 10m (LE95) and the horizontal accuracy RMSE is 20m (CE95).

AccuTerra®

In 2008 Intermap launched AccuTerra GPS Maps which combines Intermap's NextMap data with Intermap's detailed recreation based data to create highly accurate maps to be used on outdoor/recreation GPS devices. The AccuTerra iPhone App won "Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App" at Apple's Design Awards 2009. The Apple Design Awards recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement in iPhone OS and Mac OS X development.

External links

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