Aerial Sensing

Stuart Nixon — Spatial Innovator

All Things Spa­tial posts a note about Stu­art Nixon. For those unaware, Nixon began ER Map­per, a com­pany that devel­oped an image analy­sis soft­ware and the image com­pres­sion soft­ware. He later sold that com­pany to ERDAS before begin­ning NearMap, a web map­ping com­pany which was later sold to Iper­nica in Australia.

I once inter­viewed Nixon who at that time was expand­ing ER Map­per toward server appli­ca­tions. I’m pleased to learn he continue’s to forge ahead with new devel­ope­ments, he is an innovator.

From the blog — “Soon after part­ing with his old ven­ture Stu­art started a new com­pany: NearMap. It devel­oped auto­mated process for fast cre­ation of very high res­o­lu­tion pho­tomaps from aer­ial imagery (patents pend­ing). The ulti­mate goal for the com­pany is to cover 700 cities across the World with pho­tomaps updated at least on a monthly basis.”

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