15 November 2007, 10:32pm
Toulouse, France, November 15th, 2007 Infoterra France, a leading provider of geo-information products and services for managing the development, environment and security of our changing world, has landed an agreement with popular search engine Google, to provide them with a unique image processing technology that will be employed in particular to process geographic images.
This technology inherits from more than 15 years of Infoterra France experience in the domain, having led to world class products such as the Pixel Factory.
Infoterra Frances revolutionary photogrammetric suite, the Pixel Factory, is an entirely digital, highly automated production chain, which, using a multiple choice of sensors, can process industrial volumes of geographic data while maintaining a superior product quality.
Needless to say, we are very excited about this venture with such a prestigious partner, says Jean-Michel Darroy, CEO Infoterra France. It is always gratifying to be recognised and acknowledged for your companys excellence, but this is particularly special coming from a world wide innovative player like Google, he added.

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