Fugro EarthData and ESRI Canada today announced a strategic partnership and global distribution agreement that will allow Fugro EarthData to deliver PurVIEW worldwide.  PurVIEW is a powerful stereoscopic image viewing and feature extraction extension for ESRI ArcGIS, the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. "This partnership is significant because it marks the first global distribution agreement for PurVIEW," said Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada.  "Fugro EarthData's broad industry expertise and strong international presence will help expand our coverage and enable us to provide more customers with the superior image viewing environment PurVIEW delivers."

Headquartered in Maryland, USA, Fugro EarthData has provided remote sensing, mapping and GIS services to public and private sector organizations worldwide for more than 50 years.  Through its partnership with ESRI Canada, Fugro EarthData will offer PurVIEW as part of its exclusive GeoSAR mapping solution that delivers high-accuracy topographic mapping through clouds and dense vegetation.

"PurVIEW is an excellent addition to our offerings," said Ed Saade, President of Fugro EarthData.  "With its powerful 3D capabilities for capturing, viewing and editing geospatial information from GeoSAR data, our customers will benefit from enhanced data quality and a more reliable and effective GIS."

PurVIEW transforms ArcGIS Desktop into a precise stereo-viewing environment, where geodatabase feature objects can be superimposed with terrain data to reveal natural changes in data or mapping errors and omissions.  The extension simplifies the process of extracting features and reduces the cost of editing data.  It also eliminates the need for an external imaging engine or photogrammetric interface, as it interacts directly with the geodatabase, digital elevation models and georeferenced imagery data.  By integrating stereoscopic viewing in ArcGIS, users can create a rich environment for various GIS applications including environmental assessments, facility management and earth sciences.

PurVIEW is developed by I.S.M. International Systemap Corp. and marketed globally through ESRI Canada.

For more information about PurVIEW, visit esricanada.com/purview.