Blue Marble and Merrick & Company at ASPRS

25 April 2008, 8:35am

Gardiner, Maine – April 25, 2008 - Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce that they will be co-exhibiting with Merrick & Company at The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Annual Conference, from April 28th to May 2nd, 2008 in Portland, Oregon. Come visit Booth 617 to learn why Blue Marble’s coordinate conversion technology is used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software companies, universities, oil and gas companies, civil engineering, surveying, technology, enterprise GIS groups, government and military organizations.

A business partnership established between Merrick & Company and Blue Marble Geographics exposes Blue Marble’s coordinate transformation and vector translation technology to the LiDAR industry by providing Merrick’s Advanced Remote Sensing Software (MARS® ) with GeoCalc and GeoTranslate modules. Both of these powerful coordinate transformation modules support LiDAR data management functions within MARS®. The MARS® GeoTranslate module provides GIS vector data translation support for ESRI (.SHP), AutoCAD (.DWG, .DXF), MapInfo (.MIF, .TAB), Microstation (.DGN) and Excel (.XLS). The MARS® GeoCalc Module supports 3-D coordinate transformation (horizontal and vertical) of LiDAR (LAS) files.

“Both of our organizations found a natural connection in that Merrick & Company wanted to offer 3-D coordinate transformation and map file translation for their MARS software end-users,” stated Kris Berglund, Director of Sales and Marketing for Blue Marble. “The GeoCalc and GeoTranslate Software Developer Kits were a perfect solution for MARS® as the implementation of both tools required minimal development time. Merrick & Company was able to rely on Blue Marble technology and re-assign developers to other projects, which in turn streamlined the workflow of the entire development staff.”

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