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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—February 10, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it is now offering image processing services —leveraging its award winning GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology.

PCI has invested significantly in developing highly automated, high-performance image production systems designed to process large volumes of imagery quickly, efficiently, and with a high degree of quality. A service which leverages these systems is now available through PCI’s new GXL Professional Production Services. The GXL Professional Production Services are ideally suited to help customers who are faced with sudden peaks in demand for their color-balanced, orthorectified mosaic products, derived from raw aerial or satellite imagery. Calling upon PCI’s GXL Professional Production Services can provide these customers with additional processing capacity.

“Customers who have large volumes of imagery and require a quick turnaround for their processing can now call upon our GXL Professional Production Services to perform the processing for them,” said Brad Schmidt, VP of Sales and Marketing at PCI Geomatics. “Using our own GXL systems and expertise, we can now provide this advanced capability as a service at a very affordable price.”

PCI’s GXL Professional Production Services offer customers processing capability for most commercial satellite and aerial sensors. Highly accurate derived products can be generated from raw imagery provided by customers using the advanced GXL systems within PCI’s facilities. Production capacity can be quickly scaled up through the GXL’s scalable architecture; as well, the highly automated GXL processing systems can operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in order to meet any production schedule. The service also offers the opportunity for existing Geomatica customers to become acquainted with the GXL and its potential suitability for their operational requirements going forward.

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems to process aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large volume processing throughput, giving customers the ability to produce high-quality image products and derived information for any project. Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com. To find out more on PCI’s Professional Production Services, go to: www.pcigeomatics.com/services.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 01, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has signed an Education Alliance agreement with Northeastern University (NEU), located in Boston, MA.

In order to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange, PCI Geomatics has created the ‘PCI Geomatics Education Alliance Program’ designed to create strong reciprocal relationships with select educational institutions. Under the terms of the Alliance Program, PCI Geomatics provides software licenses to support teaching and research activities in exchange for insights into the work being conducted at the University with PCI Geomatics software. The program fosters communication between the University and PCI scientists, and provides an outlet to the commercial world, highlighting the work conducted at the University using PCI Geomatics software.

“PCI greatly values the contributions of Universities and other educational institutions to advance our collective knowledge of remote sensing science and applications,” said Brad Schmidt, VP of Sales and Marketing at PCI Geomatics. “The purpose of the Education Alliance Program is to support the education sector, which acts as a beacon for teaching, research, and innovation.”

“We are pleased to have been selected to participate in PCI’s Education Alliance Program,” said Dr. Cordula Robinson, Academic Specialist in the College of Professional Studies (CPS) at Northeastern University. “Geomatica is an excellent teaching aid in conveying the fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing to our Graduate students. In addition, it offers excellent tools for customization that are leveraged for research in directed studies. We have a wide variety of students using this technology through our online course offerings.”

PCI Geomatics has implemented other Educational Alliance agreements recently, and aims to have regional representation in all parts of the world.

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems to process aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large-volume processing throughput, giving customers the ability to produce high-quality image products and derived information for any project. Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com. To find out more about PCI’s Education offerings, visit: www.pcigeomatics.com/education. Press Contact

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 7, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it was the co-recipient of a prestigious Synergy Award for Innovation for 2011, along with the University of New Brunswick (UNB).

The Synergy Awards for Innovation were launched in 1995 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to recognize partnerships in natural sciences and engineering research and development between universities and Canadian industry. Since their inception, the Awards have honored the most outstanding achievements of university-industry collaboration in the natural sciences and engineering.

On February 27^th, 2012, Mr. David Stanley from PCI Geomatics, along with his UNB counterpart Dr. Zhang, attended an event to honor the award recipients. The event was held at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the Governor General of Canada’s official residence. Mr. Stanley and Dr. Zhang were presented with the award by His Excellency the Right Honorable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.

PCI Geomatics and the UNB were selected to receive this award under Category I, Small and Medium Sized Companies, for their innovative work on new pansharpening algorithms developed for high-resolution optical satellite imagery. These new algorithms - developed by Dr. Zhang and implemented into PCI’s commercial Geomatica software - allow for the fusion of high-resolution panchromatic imagery with lower-resolution color imagery to create sharp, high-resolution pansharpened images that contain color.

Pictures from the event and of the Synergy award itself can be viewed here: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/pressnews/photos/SynergyAwards/

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 20, 2012:PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces the release of its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-Aerial) version 2.1; the latest version of the company’s high-speed, high-volume multi CPU/GPU distributed processing software for aerial workflows.

Following feedback from its user base, PCI has made numerous improvements to the GXL including increases in accuracy and speed, advanced automation, and an enhanced user experience. GXL Aerial v2.1 also adds support for the DMC camera format providing wider usability and flexibility.

“Version 2.1 of the GXL represents a significant step forward for the processing of high volumes of imagery,” said David Piekny, Product manager at PCI Geomatics. “The focus of this update is in creating more accurate, better quality output that requires less editing, as well as some useful new jobs for increased automation.”

GXL Aerial v2.1 allows users to orthorectify and mosaic thousands of aerial images per day through the power of distributed processing that leverages multi-core CPUs and GPUs. This technology results in significantly increased throughput, lower production costs, and reduced reliance on outsourcing.

GXL Aerial was developed by PCI Geomatics and introduced to the marketplace in October 2010, providing support for Microsoft UltraCam’s digital frame camera series. Since that time, PCI has been adding new features and new sensor compatibility to GXL aerial; allowing even more users to take advantage of the technology.

About GXL-Aerial

GXL-Aerial technology combines high-performance computing with PCI Geomatics expertise to providesignificant improvements in automation, speed and efficiency. By optimizing and distributing automated workflows, traditional image-processing is elevated to industrial-strength production. For more information about the GXL software solution, visit www.pcigeomatics.com/gxl

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Key Features of GXL Aerial 2.1 update include:

Improved Accuracy and Speed

Many jobs have been updated or expanded, resulting in more accurate, better quality output that required less time to inspect and edit:

-Clip orthos along-track and cross-track to speed processing and remove building lean

-Constrain seamlines towards image centers to reduce building mis-match

-Seamlines contain 50% fewer vertices to store and edit, while maintaining routing and appearance

-Specify a height model for improved DTM vertical accuracy

Improved Usability

As a result of customer feedback, PCI has added new features to improve the user experience:

Sourcemaps are created for mosaics, allowing quick identification of source images

-Background (Null data) value can be set to black, white or any grayscale level

-Both merged and topological (non-overlapping) seamline layers are generated for the entire project area

-Kappa rotation parameter now accessible directly for AT ingest

-Projection Engine now includes EPSG and custom user-defined projections

Improved Automation

New jobs have been added to improve automation and reduce work. These can be run on their own or as part of a batch process in an end-to-end workflow:

-Quickly generate DTMs for from points, lines, polygons, contours and breaklines with the DEM Generation job

-Fine-tune and enhance the visual impact of your mosaics with the Image Enhancement job

-Scale your imagery to 8 or 16 bit formats with the Image Scaling job

Expanded Formats and Cameras

The GXL Aerial now supports additional sensors and standards, providing wider usability and flexibility:

-DMC camera support now included in GXL Aerial

-Vector xyz format, las and others can be used directly in DEM Generation

-Mixed tiff inputs (scanline/tiles) can be used together

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 22, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it is now offering online courses for its desktop image processing software, Geomatica.

PCI has a large base of Geomatica customers throughout the world, and offers a number of resources to help new and experienced users get the most out of their software investment. Based on market research and customer feedback, instructor-led training continues to offer the highest value in terms of operational knowledge obtained versus instruction time/approach. Over the past few years, PCI has observed a shift towards offering training online, due to the convenience it offers in terms of travel and the reduced time commitment (because there is no travel required to participate).

As such, PCI is initially offering a one day “Introduction to Geomatica” online course on March 29^th, 2012, and plans to offer its full curriculum on a rotating basis going forward. The focus of the initial course, which is broken down into five modules, will offer participants the opportunity to master the basics needed to visualize and process raster and vector data sets. Participants will log into a live session, where they will have access to an instructor that will be leading them through the material. Participants will have the latest version of PCI’s Geomatica 2012 software installed, and will be given access to a training manual and data (imagery) to complete the exercises and follow along with the instructor.

“PCI has received a number of requests for training in the recent past, but customers are increasingly reluctant to commit the time needed to travel to a specific training location to attend training,” said Brad Schmidt, VP – Sales and Marketing at PCI Geomatics. “By offering our courses online, customers can have multiple people attend from different locations and join the training course from the convenience of their offices.”

PCI’s online training course offers great value to participants, with the added benefit of being very convenient. To find out more about the initial March 29^th course offering, see http://www.pcigeomatics.com/training.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 26, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that the GXL Cloud system it deployed for Esri in 2011 has successfully been used to process large volumes of 1 meter pansharpened Ikonos imagery. Imagery processed through the use of the GXL Cloud system is now available for free through ArcGIS Online.

The imagery processed using PCI’s GXL system was published to the ArcGIS Online World Imagery map earlier this month. Expanded coverage is now available for Korea and several countries in the Middle East and North Africa – with several more updates planned over the coming months. Samples of the imagery processed using PCI’s GXL technology can be accessed here: http://pci.gl/wdqxP7.

PCI’s GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology was designed for automation and speed, leveraging off-the-shelf CPU/GPU hardware through highly parallelized processing capability, thereby accelerating production throughput over traditional desktop systems by orders of magnitude. Cloud-based services offer the advantage of low-cost computing resources across multiple instances that can be switched on and off as required, providing on-demand scalability. PCI has worked with Esri Inc. to deploy its GXL technology to the Amazon Cloud, where multiple instances can be tasked to process large volumes of imagery — on demand.

The GXL Cloud System implementation is tailored to process high-resolution optical imagery, and can generate pansharpened, orthorectified, color-balanced tiled mosaic products at high speed using multi CPU/GPU and multi-instance enabled technology. The complete system can transform uncorrected Level 1 frame-based data from multiple satellite sensors into thousands of orthorectified and mosaicked products — on demand.

“Through diligent work and a great amount of innovation, we have overcome significant hurdles which have limited the availability of cloud computing for the customers’ Earth Observation and Imagery needs,” said David Stanley, Chief Technology Officer at PCI Geomatics. “By staging the data directly within Amazon’s facility and coupling it with our Cloud-optimized GXL system, we can leverage the true power of Cloud Based processing for our customers, that is, on-demand scalability for high-speed production.”

“Through the use of the GXL Cloud system that PCI has deployed to our Amazon Cloud instances, we are working diligently to provide high-resolution and high-quality content as quickly as possible for the ArcGIS Online platform,” said Steven Lambert, Senior Program Manager at Esri.

About GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL)

GXL technology combines high-performance computing with PCI Geomatics expertise to provide significant improvements in automation, speed and efficiency. By optimizing and distributing automated workflows, traditional image-processing is elevated to industrial-strength production.

For more information about the GXL software solution, and the Cloud based capability, visit www.pcigeomatics.com/gxl, or www.pcigeomatics.com/cloud

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About Esri

Esri develops geographic information systems (GIS) solutions that function as an integral component in

nearly every type of organization. Esri software is used by more than 350,000 organizations worldwide

including most U.S. federal agencies and national mapping agencies, 45 of the top 50 petroleum companies, all 50 U.S. state health departments, most forestry companies, and many others in dozens of industries. Esri software is the standard in state and local government and is used by more than 24,000 state and local governments including Paris, France; Los Angeles, California, USA; Beijing, China; and Kuwait City, Kuwait. For more information, visit www.esri.com.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—April 12, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has released Geomatica 2012, ServicePack 2 (SP2). This release contains maintenance fixes and includes all updates delivered since Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 1. The update is available for both Windows and Linux-based operating systems. It is recommended that customers using Geomatica 2012 download and install this service pack at their earliest convenience to ensure the highest-quality experience when working with the software. The service pack can be accessed by visiting the updates page at www.pcigeomatics.com/updates.

Customers who have any questions or run into issues with the installation should contact PCI’s Support team at support@pcigeomatics.com, or visit the support site at www.pcigeomatics.com/support.

About PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems to process aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large volume processing throughput, giving customers the ability to produce high-quality image products and derived information for any project.

Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—April 19, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, recently released new capability in its Geomatica 2012 software, which specifically adds rigorous and automated support for FASat-Charlie.

The newly released version of Geomatica 2012 SP2 now includes support for FASat-Charlie, an optical satellite sensor which was launched on December 16, 2011. The new satellite, which will be administered primarily by the Chilean Ministry of Defense and the Space Agency, includes 1.45m panchromatic and 5.8m multispectral imaging capability.

PCI Geomatics has worked closely with its Chilean partner, Geosoluciones, to secure some of the first images collected by the new satellite, in order to implement sensor-specific automated image correction methods to create highly accurate orthorectified images directly from the imagery. PCI Geomatics is reputed for developing and implementing Rigorous Satellite Models (RSMs) quickly and efficiently as new sensors are launched. The new RSM is available for both Geomatica 2012 (SP2) and PCI’s GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL).

“The ability to quickly and accurately correct imagery using state of the art techniques is a critical aspect of the operational requirements for the Chilean Ministry of Defense,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager at PCI Geomatics. “The Chilean Geospatial industry will benefit from fast, accurate image correction capability for FASat-Charlie within Geomatica and/or GXL, permitting the development of new, innovative applications that leverage this sensor in combination with other imagery.”

About PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems to process aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large volume processing throughput, giving customers the ability to produce high-quality image products and derived information for any project. Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com.

To find out more about PCI’s distributor in Chile, please visit: www.geosoluciones.cl.

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PCI Geomatics innovando con nuevas tecnologías para conocer las demandas de la Industria Geoespacial Chilena

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canadá—19 de Abril, 2012: PCI Geomatics, un desarrollador líder-mundial de sistemas y software de geoimágenes, publicó recientemente la nueva capacidad en su software de Geomática 2012 que específicamente se añade soporte riguroso y automatizado para FASat-Charlie.

La nueva versión de Geomática 2012 Service Pack 2 incluye ahora soporte para FASat-Charlie, un sensor del satélite óptico que se puso en marcha el 16 de diciembre de 2011. El nuevo satélite, que será administrado principalmente por el Ministerio de Defensa de Chile y la Agencia Espacial Chilena, incluye una capacidad de imagen de 1,45 m. pancromática y 5.8 multiespectral.

PCI Geomatics ha trabajado en estrecha colaboración con su socio chileno, GEOSOLUCIONES, para obtener algunas de las primeras imágenes adquiridas por el nuevo satélite, con el fin de poner en práctica métodos automatizados de sensores específicos para la corrección de imágenes, con el fin de crear imágenes ortorectificada de gran precisión directamente. PCI Geomatics es conocida por el desarrollo e implementación de modelos rigurosos de Satélites RSM (por sus siglas en ingles) de forma rápida y eficiente una vez que se lancen nuevos sensores. La nueva RSM está disponible tanto para Geomatica 2012 (SP2) como para el GeoImaging Accelerator de PCI (GXL).

“La capacidad de corregir imágenes rápidamente y de forma precisa utilizando las técnicas del estado del arte es un aspecto crítico de los requisitos operacionales para el Ministerio de Defensa de Chile", dijo Peter Hazlett, Gerente del Producto de PCI Geomatics. "La Industria Geoespacial Chilena se beneficiará de la capacidad para la corrección de la imágenes de FASat-Charlie en forma rápida y precisa dentro de los software Geomatica y/o GXL. Esto permitiría el desarrollo de aplicaciones nuevas e innovadoras que aprovechen este sensor en combinación con otras imágenes”.

Acerca de PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics es un desarrollador líder mundial de software y sistemas para el procesamiento de imágenes aéreas y satelitales. La compañía proporciona flujos de trabajo de imágenes compatibles con la tecnología ESRI, la capacidad autónoma de procesamiento de imágenes, y eficiencia en el procesamiento de grandes volúmenes de datos, dando a los clientes la capacidad de generar productos e información derivada, de alta calidad para cualquier proyecto. Mayor información sobre PCI Geomatics se encuentra en www.pcigeomatics.com.

Mayor información sobre GEOSOLUCIONES se encuentra en www.geosoluciones.cl.

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Kevin R. Jones
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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 1, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it was one of the Consortium's first recipients of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Distinguished Member Award.

The Distinguished Member Award was established by the OGC in 2011 to recognize OGC member organizations that have made substantial, positive, and sustained impacts on one or more areas of the OGC mission accomplishment through a high level of commitment beyond traditional member engagement. The award was granted by the Board to PCI Geomatics in recognition of PCI’s strategic commitment to advancing the mission objectives of the Open Geospatial Consortium in the Asia Pacific region.

Mark Reichardt, OGC President and CEO, commented; “In recent years, PCI has provided OGC with unprecedented access to its regional staff in India, China, and other nations across Asia to increase the visibility of OGC and to encourage standards adoption and stimulate participation in the OGC member process by all nations.” He added, “The OGC also recognizes PCI’s leadership in developing the Global Advisory Council, the brainchild of Dr. Robert Moses – the program ensures underrepresented regions of the world have a voice in the OGC process.”

Terry Moloney, PCI’s President and CEO, accepted the award in person this past March 2012 and stated; “PCI has always been a strong believer in the fundamental mission and purpose of the OGC – to promote open data standards and participation, enabling open access to geospatial information to multi-disciplinary groups working in the fields of GIS and Remote Sensing. Through innovation and access to geospatial information, positive societal changes can be affected. PCI has always believed in these principles and is honored to have been selected as the first recipient for this prestigious award.”

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 24, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it will be jointly offering fire mapping services in Northern Ontario with Discovery Air Fire Services Inc. (DAFS) during the upcoming 2012 forest fire season.

DAFS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Air, has been active for over 60 years, supplying airborne fire management services to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and other authorities responsible for firefighting in Canada. With the increasing complexity and frequency of forest fires in recent years, DAFS has added a new High Level Infrared (HLIR) sensor to its fixed wing fleet, to provide intelligence to wildfire Incident Commanders, Fire Managers, and Fire Duty Officers on a daily basis. The HLIR system consists of a Firemapper camera and operations console, which is used by DAFS to collect thermal and visual imagery during response operations.

One of the key challenges with the imagery collected by the DAFS Firemapper system is rapid and accurate processing of imagery that is collected, in order to prepare mission-critical maps in near real-time. This is especially helpful to understand the effectiveness of firefighting efforts and adjust plans on a daily basis. DAFS, together with PCI Geomatics, will implement an operational system to derive accurate, up-to-date maps based on imagery collected using the Firemapper system. Leveraging PCI’s rigorous technology to process the individual images collected by the camera, DAFS will prepare GIS-ready maps for operational briefings, providing the most up-to-date, accurate fire status information.

The enhanced end-to-end workflow will greatly enhance the situational awareness capability of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, through the provision of accurate, map-based fire information that will be collected and delivered within hours of capture. The services will be offered through DAFS’ Northern Ontario operations, which is capable of responding to emergencies across Ontario’s forest fire danger areas.

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About Discovery Air Fire Services Inc. (DAFS)

DAFS is a Northern Ontario-based Aerial Operations Company which has been active in the Canadian Aviation industry for over 60 years. DAFS is a premier provider of special-mission aircraft. DAFS has established Aircraft and Flight Operations bases with Airframe, Line, and Component maintenance bases at Dryden, Kenora, and Sudbury Ontario. Additionally, the company supports Satellite Flight Operations base at Geraldton and Chapleau. With over 140 aircraft, it is one of the largest air operators in Canada, employing more than 850 flight crew, maintainers, and support staff to deliver a variety of air transport, maintenance, and logistics solutions to its government, airline and business customers.

About Discovery Air Inc.

Discovery Air Inc. is a Canadian specialty aviation company, operating over 150 aircraft with approximately 850 team members. Its subsidiaries provide airborne training to the Canadian military; air ambulance services; airborne fire services; helicopter operations; fixed-wing air charter services; expediting and logistics support; and a range of maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification, engineering and certification services.

Discovery Air Inc.’s Class A common voting shares and unsecured debentures trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbols DA.A and DA.DB.A, respectively).

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—June 28, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it will be providing advanced image processing services to Geo-Surveys and Mapping Inc. (GSMI) to produce a high-quality 0.5 meter
pansharpened, color-balanced mosaic of the Philippines. The final deliverable will be used by the Department of Agriculture in the Philippines.

GSMI turned to PCI’s Professional Production team to process over 304,000 square kilometers of GeoEye imagery, recognizing the high caliber of expertise and advanced production methods available through PCI’s new service offering. A key deciding factor for GSMI in selecting PCI’s Professional Production Services was to reduce overall project risk by leveraging the expertise and know-how developed at PCI for the last 30 years, ensuring that high-quality final deliverables are produced in a timely manner for their end customer.

“There are some considerable challenges in mapping the Philippines, an archipelago comprising more than 7,100 islands,” said Brad Schmidt, VP of Sales and Marketing at PCI Geomatics. “Persistent cloud cover, discontinuous land areas, and incomplete coverage are some of the issues that we must address. The GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) system used by the Professional Production team leverages industry leading color balancing algorithms that were developed in-house; these have been very successful in dealing with the discontinuous imagery. Using GXL, PCI is working diligently to meet the geometric and radiometric accuracy requirements in a timely fashion.”

The imagery collected by GeoEye consists of 0.5 m panchromatic and 2.0 m multispectral data, which is processed by PCI Geomatics in an end-to-end workflow that includes multiple processing steps controlled through quality assurance methods. The workflow includes orthorectification, pansharpening, and mosaicking – the resolution of the final product will be 0.5 m, and the target accuracy will be 2.0 m CE90 – providing a base data set that can be used to produce 1:2,500 scale maps. The project is expected to be completed over an 18 month period; its duration is mainly driven by the availability of cloud-free imagery.

PCI Geomatics has recently introduced Professional Production Services and continues to provide solutions to a number of clients including Esri Inc., which selected PCI to process 50 million square kilometers of Ikonos imagery using GXL deployed to the Amazon Cloud.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—July 10, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has successfully launched the beta version of its desktop software, Geomatica 2013.

The commercial release of Geomatica 2013 will build upon PCI’s successful Geomatica 2012 product, which was launched last fall. The beta program offers testers the opportunity to work with the latest version of Geomatica, where improvements have been made in key areas:

Faster, efficient workflows for large image-processing projects (100 to 1,000 scenes/project)
Atmospheric Correction – new, easy-to-use interface for automated detection/masking of clouds as well as haze removal
Improved results for the extraction of digital elevation models from high*resolution imagery

The purpose of the closed beta program is to give existing PCI customers and partners an opportunity to test the new functionality that has been built into the software – functionality driven by customer and market feedback. Beta testers will work directly with Peter Hazlett, PCI’s Geomatica Product Manager, providing valuable comments and feedback.

“We are extremely pleased to have such a broad range of beta program participants, who will be testing the new areas where we have made significant improvements,” said Peter Hazlett. “PCI has a long tradition of working with its customers and partners to continue to improve its products, and we greatly value the time and effort beta testers will contribute to ensure the Geomatica 2013 release is a top-notch product.”

Geomatica 2013 includes hundreds of improvements to several areas, including Focus, OrthoEngine, Fly!, and SAR analysis. The software will offer support for additional satellite, aerial, and UAV sensors, as well as improved support for data formats. In addition, the software will include improved performance through new OpenMP-enabled versions of key algorithms (DEM extraction, Automated GCP and tie point extraction, and epipolar pair generation, among several others).

Geomatica represents a key product for PCI’s broad array of scalable, high-speed image processing software solutions. Technology is developed and implemented across PCI’s technology stack, making it possible for customers to leverage the right solution for their processing requirements. Projects of any size can be addressed using PCI’s innovative desktop and enterprise image processing solutions.

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—July 25, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has released Geomatica 2012, Service Pack 3 (SP3).

This release contains maintenance fixes and includes all updates delivered since Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 2. The update is available for both Windows and Linux-based operating systems.

Geomatica 2012 SP3 also includes support for Pléiades 1A; the first sensor in the Pléiades constellation of satellites. The first satellite was launched on December 15, 2011 and captures very-high-resolution optical images for defense and as civilian clients.

“PCI constantly strives to be first to market with support for the latest sensors,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager at PCI Geomatics. “Our rapid response to the launch of new imaging sensors helps keep our customers at the forefronts of their respective fields.”

It is recommended that customers using Geomatica 2012 download and install this service pack at their earliest convenience to ensure the highest-quality experience when working with the software. The service pack can be accessed by visiting the updates page at www.pcigeomatics.com/updates.

Customers who have any questions or run into issues with the installation should contact PCI’s Support team at support@pcigeomatics.com, or visit the support site at www.pcigeomatics.com/support.

About PCI Geomatics

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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—October 3, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces the release of Geomatica 2013; the latest version of the company’s complete and integrated desktop image processing software featuring tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, map production, mosaicking and more.

“With this year’s release, we have really added tools that will speed up the processing workflow in many different areas of the software,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager for Geomatica. “It is not uncommon for projects of hundreds to thousands of images in size that need to be processed in a single block. New tools have been added and performance has been improved for compute intensive algorithms, saving you hours in processing time.”

Geomatica 2013 adds incredible performance improvements to streamline your workflow like never before. Starting with Focus, new, wizard based workflows have been added for Atmospheric Correction that will allow users to automatically detect cloud and haze in imagery – which will make producing seamless mosaics in cloud plagued areas more intuitive. In OrthoEngine, users will see incredible improvements in handling large projects, including Quality Assurance panels that automatically update, Ground Control Point (and Tie Point) visualization, leading edge automated seamline generation, and the best algorithms to match images to each other automatically through new automatic ground control collection algorithms that can achieve registration accuracies down to 1/10^th of a pixel!

Included in the Geomatica 2013 release is a set of new, redesigned algorithms to automatically extract Digital Elevation Models from single or up to hundreds of stereo pairs collected by high resolution sensors. In addition, creating DEMs from multi-source elevation data (billions of lidar points, contour lines, breaklines) is now possible through powerful new tools for DEM creation from vector data. All DEM generation algorithms have been implemented to leverage OpenMP, which means customers will see big performance improvements (3x to 4x faster than previous).

In addition to the great new and improved tools, Geomatica 2013 will also offer a unique, new tool to help customers improve the way they work with their large, complex data holdings. Geomatica Discover, which will be available in a Geomatica 2013 service pack, is a standalone, web based data discovery tool, will crawl your local or system drives to automatically create footprints for geospatial raster and vector data. The interface allows for map based or advanced text based querying, allowing customers to quickly and efficiently discover their data holdings to help organize production work.

Geomatica 2013 is available for 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (Windows XP/Windows 7/Server 2003/Server 2008) starting today. A Linux version will be available in the coming weeks. For more information on Geomatica 2013, please visit www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica.

About PCI Geomatics

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Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
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Highlights in Geomatica 2013

Atmopheric Correction

Industry leading Atmospheric Correction Tools, with an all new wizard interface including workflows for:

Haze detection and removal
Cloud detection and masking
Ground reflectance map generation
Surface temperature mapping

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Extraction

· 3x to 4x better performance (OpenMP enabled)

· Higher accuracy, better results

o New filtering, terrain selection options

o Better handling of large elevation jumps

· Productivity improvements

o New simplified workflow in OrthoEngine

o Automatically work with 100’s to 1,000s of stereo pairs

· Dramatic improvements in generating DEMs from vector data (billions of Lidar points, breakline, contour lines)

Speedy Workflows

OrthoEngine includes key improvements that will improve productivity:

· More control over large projects

· Faster, more efficient QA

· Easier point selection / deletion / editing

· Improved seamline generation methods (fewer vertices per line)

· 2D DEM editing capability in Focus to quickly address quality issues with DEMs

Format/Sensor Support

PCI Geomatics is proud to be consistently first-to-market with new format and sensor support. In Geomatica 2013, adds support for the following:

New Sensors

Pleiades

UAVSAR

Sentinel-1

Updates to existing Sensors

·         Deimos
·         ZY3
·         CBERS02C

New Formats

Along with new formats, Geomatica 2013 includes multi-sensor metadata collection capability which has been redesigned, with the emphasis on simplifying workflows down the road since many parameters are automatically populated. New data formats include:

Esri Arc Geodatabase Vector Support
Panorama SXF
Envi (improvements in handling of format)
Pyramid file support for ENVI and Erdas image formats

Data Visualization

FLY! Has received improvements, including upgrading it to be OpenMP enabled, improving performance up to 4x
Focus includes improve mulit-layer selection capability, as well as setting and changing the default band combination for multiple images at once
Ability to generate a Spot blue band (to make natural color composites)
Profile tool improvements for displaying multiple channels at once

SAR Improvements
PCI has a long and rich tradition of developing tools for SAR Sensors. Geomatica 2013 includes the following improvements:
·         Improved performance for SAR algorithms (OpenMP implementation)
·         Automatic water body delineation based on new methods developed at CCRS
·         Improved user interaction capability for SPW (editable text, 2D, 3D, Static output)
·         Intuitive processing (workflow based on available data and parameters)

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—October 19, 2012: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces the release of the 32-bit version of Geomatica 2013; the company’s complete and integrated desktop image processing software featuring tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, map production, mosaicking and more.

“This release, has added the same tools included in the 64-bit version released earlier this month,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager for Geomatica. “Now, users on 32-bit systems can easily work with projects of hundreds to thousands of images in size quickly and easily. New tools have been added and performance has been improved for compute intensive algorithms, saving you hours in processing time.”

The 32-bit Geomatica 2013 is available for multiple versions of Microsoft Windows (Windows XP//Windows 7/Server 2003/Server 2008) starting today. For more information on Geomatica 2013, please visit www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica.

About PCI Geomatics

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Product Management
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—November 2, 2012:

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces the release of the Linux versions of Geomatica 2013.The company’s complete and integrated desktop image processing software becomes available for Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Suse starting today.

“Linux users represent an important segment of the geospatial community,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager for Geomatica. “We are pleased to bring the functionality of Geomatica 2013 to this segment of our user base to allow them to easily work with projects of hundreds to thousands of images in size quickly and easily.”

Geomatica 2013 is available for Red Hat 5, Ubuntu 10, and Suse 11 as well as multiple versions of Microsoft Windows (Windows XP//Windows 7/Server 2003/Server 2008). For more information on Geomatica 2013, please visit www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica.

About PCI Geomatics

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Product Management
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—January 15, 2013:

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, has announced that it has signed a new exclusive distribution agreement with Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology Co. Ltd (BSEI) of China. The new agreement acknowledges BSEI, as PCI’s exclusive reseller partner for both PCI’s Geomatica desktop software and PCI’s award winning GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology, in China.

Since February 2009, BSEI has successfully partnered with PCI Geomatics, reselling Geomatica to the Chinese market. BSEI has experienced tremendous success distributing PCI technology in the Chinese market, which continues to grow and expand - the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is estimated to be over 10% from 2013-2017, with many investments made across a variety of sectors, in particular the development of geospatial technology. Under the terms of the agreement, PCI will maintain its office in Beijing, providing both local technical and sales support to assist BSEI.

“BSEI has established itself as a trusted supplier of leading edge geospatial technology in China, having developed its expertise and experience since the company’s inception in 2000”, said Xiaoyang Cheng, President of BSEI. “We are poised to help our Chinese customers and the Geospatial Industry continue to grow significantly, through the implementation of the exclusive distribution agreement to sell PCI’s proven desktop and solutions products. Through the exclusive agreement, BSEI and PCI will work more closely than ever to provide our customers with local service and technical support”.

“PCI Geomatics has established a strong and successful relationship with BSEI,” said Terry Moloney, President and CEO of PCI Geomatics. “The Chinese economy continues to expand, with the use of Geospatial imagery growing rapidly. By working exclusively with BSEI, we look forward to offering more leading edge solutions to customers in China”.

PCI Geomatics has recently released Geomatica 2013, which has been available to the Chinese market since September 2012. In addition, PCI has successfully installed several high throughput GXL production systems in China. Find out more by visiting: www.pcigeomatics.com/geomatica and www.pcigeomatics.com/gxl.

About PCI Geomatics
PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry. With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery. PCI has installed more than 25,000 licenses, in over 145 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

About BSEI
Beijing Space Eye Innovation Tech Co. Ltd. (BSEI) has many years of experience of distributing satellite imagery and world leading image processing software in the Chinese market. BSEI is also the global channel partner of Chinese imaging satellite, TH-1. BSEI provides professional image processing services, information systems integration and related technical training. Based in Beijing China, BSEI has more than 80% of their staff with specialized, advanced degrees in the fields of Remote Sensing and GIS. Since 2005, BSEI has provided more than 1,000 users in China and abroad with various satellite imagery, software as well as data processing services and training. Find out more at: www.bsei.com.cn

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—February 04, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announces it has released its Geomatica 2013 Service Pack 1.

This release contains maintenance fixes and includes all updates delivered since Geomatica 2013. The update is available for both Windows and Linux based operating systems.

In addition, Geomatica 2013 SP1 includes support for an additional sensor, RASAT – a Turkish Earth Observation Satellite capable of collecting 7.5m panchromatic and 15m multispectral imagery. Support within Geomatica now includes automated image correction for RASAT imagery through sensor modeling.

It is recommended that customers using Geomatica 2013 download and install this service pack at their earliest convenience to ensure the highest-quality experience when working with the software. The service pack can be accessed by visiting the updates page at www.pcigeomatics.com/updates.

Customers who have any questions or run into issues with the installation should contact PCI’s Support team at support@pcigeomatics.com, or visit the support site at www.pcigeomatics.com/support.

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry. With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery. PCI has installed more than 30 thousand licenses, in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—February 26, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that its Freeview software has been downloaded for the 60,000^th time!

Freeview continues to be a very popular tool for viewing imagery and GIS data, and offers a surprising amount of functionality for a broad spectrum of people interested in Geospatial data. Freeview is based on PCI Geomatics' full Geomatica software suite, and allows users to view, layer, and evaluate raster and vector spatial data, effortlessly.

“Freeview has been regularly updated and made available for download for over ten years, and has been used by thousands around the world to explore Geospatial raster and vector data”, said Peter Hazlett, Geomatica Product Manager. “Through the development of our core technology, we continue to add more sensor support to Freeview. The software makes it easy for students and non-experts to view imagery and vector data in an accurate manner. Freeview has made a positive contribution in terms of making imagery and geospatial data more readily accessible and understandable”.

On a daily basis, Freeview is used around the world as a teaching tool or simply to perform basic tasks such as measure distances or calculate area on imagery or GIS layers. The latest release of Freeview supports more than 150 raster and vector data formats and remains completely free.

For more information on Freeview, and to download a copy of the software, visit:

http://www.pcigeomatics.com/resources/downloads

About PCI Geomatics

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Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Comunications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—March 11, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that they, together with its Australian Reseller, GeoImage, will offer a series of free workshops in Perth (March 22^nd, 2013), Brisbane (March 26^th) and Canberra (March 28^th).

Join PCI and GeoImage to better understand the variety of offerings from PCI Geomatics and how you can use the software to gain operational efficiencies. Informative sessions will be delivered on the following:

Geomatica

PCI’s Desktop Image Processing software – featuring Geomatica 2013’s latest advances, including atmospheric correction, improved support for large projects, and detailed digital elevation model extraction.

Geomatica Discover

Geomatica Discover is a new, standalone software tool for automated data discovery on local or network storage devices. An intuitive web-based interface provides the ability to crawl drives for geospatial data, then expose the database through web-based catalogs that can be easily filtered. This tool can be used to reduce the time spent searching for existing data, or to build data requirements based on existing and missing geospatial data holdings.

Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) Production Workflow

Significantly reduce manual labor, double production speeds, and achieve high levels of accuracy with the semi-automated Historical Airphoto Workflow.

GXL

Designed to be scalable and high speed, the GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) can process terabytes of satellite and aerial imagery per day through the power of distributed, GPU-enabled computing. See some of the latest advancements in GXL processing, including True Ortho, 2.5 D DEM editing, and advanced cutline generation methods to reduce manual Quality Assurance on large projects.

To attend the free workshops, you must RSVP – simply follow this link:

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry. With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery. PCI has installed more than 30 thousand licenses, in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com Twitter:@pcigeomatics

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PCI Geomatics releases Geomatica 2013

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