RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—November
7, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging
software and systems, today announces that it has successfully delivered to the
Sabah Lands and Surveys Department (SLSD)
a Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) system, a customized workflow developed
by PCI Geomatics. Installation and training, which took place in September of this
year, were included in the delivery of the system.
Sabah, one of 13 member states which comprise
Malaysia, is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo, and has a
total land area of 73,631 km2. The Sabah Lands and Surveys
Department has secured the use of a HAP
system within its organization in order to produce seamless ortho mosaics for
the over 40,000 historical images it possesses in its archive – dating from the
1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000’s.
The Sabah Lands and Surveys
Department received onsite training from PCI’s HAP
experts who travelled to Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, in order to
install and provide training. Using an iterative approach and leveraging
automated Ground Control Point collection techniques, large blocks of images
from the archives were successfully orthorectified, and mosaicked.
Previously, historical images were made
available to the public through the SLSD central office location in Kota
Kinabalu, however this only provided limited use of the imagery. By proactively
correcting all of the imagery from the various years, the SLSD will be significantly
increasing transparency for key issues that deal with land ownership, natural
resources, and change detection dating back to the 1970’s.
“Prior to implementing the Historical Airphoto
Processing System, the distribution of imagery was limited to onsite
consultation in our offices,” said Robert Cheng, Assistant
Director of Survey & Mapping. “The HAP system
will allow us to produce highly accurate, color-balanced orthorectified digital
mosaics that can be consulted through our Sabah Land Information System
(SALIS), through the Internet.”
“We are pleased to see that this valuable
source of imagery will be preserved and will continue to provide value to its
owners, and to the citizens of Sabah,” said Wong Tai Hong,
General Manager at, Jurupro SND BHD, PCI’s Reseller
in Malaysia. “The customer was impressed with the HAP system’s capability and
immediately identified a need to use the system to process imagery in their
archive in order to preserve its value,” he added.
PCI Geomatics recently introduced the
Historical Airphoto Processing Workflow, which leverages the Geomatica platform
to produce ortho-mosaics from difficult-to-process
scanned historical imagery. The system is successfully being used in Canada,
the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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 satellite and aerial
imagery. There are more than 30,000PCI licenses,
in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.
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Web: www.pcigeomatics.com
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