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BLOM
Field of Activity: Geo-information provider
Description: Blom Group is based on collecting and processing high quality geographical information and developing software applications and services based on this information.
Located in twelve offices and production units throughout Europe and employing more than 1,100 experienced staff and operating up to 37 aircrafts, Blom is able to provide a wide variety of mapping & geographic and navigation & location products and services, meeting local, regional and international standards and specifications. The Head Office is located in Oslo, and the company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker BLO).
Key Technologies:
Oblique Imagery: Pictometry® oblique image libraries are a unique new imaging technique which provides multiple, geo-referenced views of each feature within an urban environment. Blom group is in the process of acquiring and building a database of over 900 European cities. The imagery will be available for licencing, streamed to third-party websites and delivered either through the internet or depending upon volume, by hard-disk.
The images are available for viewing and measurement in the leading GIS software systems through Active-X, APIs, controls for integration with customer and third-party geographic datasets, providing a rich visual information source to support analysis, reporting and decision making.
Laser-scanning (LiDAR) is an efficient technology for the acquisition of large areas of digital terrain and surface models (DTM and DSM). Digital Terrain Models (DTM's) can be generated at a high resolution with considerable detail, making the technology more cost efficient when compared with photogrammetric methods. Blom group operates both helicopter-based and fixed-wing LiDAR systems, supporting detailed corridor mapping for engineering applications and wide-area DTM's for environmental, land use and mapping activities.
Laser Bathymetry. Blom group provide survey services internationally for the coastal zone and other shallow water (<70m depth) environments using Hawk Eye II, the world's most advanced airborne LiDAR bathymetry and topography system.
Hawk Eye II is ideally suited to coastal survey work but can also perform land and deep sea surveys.
Key Products:
Blom Urbex, online software transform digital images into a virtual toolkit allowing you to locate, view and measure buildings, structures and urban landscapes.
Blom Urbex enables you to see the bigger picture. With standard aerial imagery you can only look down on a building from above. Imagine viewing that same building obliquely from either North, South, East, or West as well as from above.
Benefits:
- Easy online access to over 1000 European cities
- Buildings and objects can be studied in their real world locations and surroundings
- Instant measurement, data capture and analysis using the online tools
- Perform basic site surveys without leaving your office
- Simple data extraction and integration into your existing GIS or CAD environment
- Visualise the data to assist and improve your decision making process
- Easy to view, analyse and extract only the data you require.
Blom Urbex SDKs, Set of tools for developing new applications in the mobile environment such as Windows, Symbian, iPhone, Java, Android, etc. based on the Blom Urbex imagery system.
Pictometry E.F.S., Pictometry's Electronic Field Study (EFS) is a proprietary geospatial imagery application for use with Pictometry® data. EFS application can be used to view the imagery, make measurements, navigate around images as well as add annotation and other geographic data.
3D City Models, Blom has developed an automated production process of real textured 3D models which offers new services that can be provided with viewing and manipulation software, specifically designed to provide high performance.
Real textures are extracted from Blom oblique image libraries and are applied to the 3D polygons offering realistic views as shown in figure below.
Strategic Partnership:
Pictometry International Corp., headquartered in Rochester, NY, is a leading provider of geo-referenced aerial, oblique image libraries and related software. With customers throughout the U.S. and licensing partners around the globe, Pictometry uses a proprietary image capture process to produce Pictometry Intelligent Images® so you can See Everywhere, Measure Anything, Plan Everything.®. Blom owns the rights of the Pictometry technology in Europe until 2013.
Microsoft:
World's leader software manufacturer, uses the Blom's image libraries for the Microsoft Live Map and Virtual Earth products.
Tele Atlas: The world's most trusted source of digital maps, has helped its partners successfully develop world class mapping solutions. Their partners trust them to deliver the freshest, richest, most accurate digital map data and dynamic content possible. Theirr comprehensive map database spans more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including more than 27 million kilometers of roads, nearly two billion inhabitants, and 30 million Points-of-Interest (POIs) worldwide
Emergency Services Key Customers:
E911 (USA): Pictometry is the reference imagery used in the United States of America by E911 Services. Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), also known as 9-1-1 call centers, are tasked with ensuring fast and accurate responses to calls for service. "Having instant access to vital information is crucial in 9-1-1 situations," said Pictometry Chief Marketing Officer Dante Pennacchia.
Links:
www.blomasa.com
Key Contacts:
BLOM Information Services
Ignacio Albisu
Product Marketing Director
C/ Zurbano 46
28010 Madrid, Spain
ignacio.albisu@blomasa.com
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