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Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Microsoft Announces Next Generation UltraCam: UltraCam Eagle

Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division today announced the UltraCam Eagle, a new generation of its award-winning UltraCam digital photogrammetric aerial camera systems. This latest model in the widely adopted line of UltraCam digital aerial sensors builds on the UltraCam legacy of reliable and economical solutions for producing image data of exceptional quality, but bests traditional “large-format” cameras

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

GRW Purchases Microsoft UltraCamLp Photogrammetric Digital Aerial Camera

GRW Inc., a full-service geospatial engineering, architecture and planning firm, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamLp digital aerial camera system. The UltraCamLp will support GRW in serving government and commercial customers around the US, for applications such as transportation mapping, utility mapping, airport planning, and digital orthophoto creation. Learn

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. Purchases Microsoft UltraCamLp Digital Camera

Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp digital aerial photogrammetric camera system. Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. will use the new UltraCamLp primarily for projects involving road and power lines corridors, forestry, and other smaller projects in the local area, while keeping its two UltraCamXp cameras available for larger

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Microsoft Launches Streetside Mapping Service in UK

Microsoft will launch “Streetside”, its own version of Google’s mapping service StreetView, on Bing maps in the second week of May in the UK. A Microsoft spokesman said the company has started collecting 360-degree photos of streets in London. Next month the company will start gathering images form other countries in Europe including Germany, France

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Microsoft to Unveil New Technologies at ASPRS 2011 Conference

In its User Group meeting at the 2010 ASPRS conference in Milwaukee, Minnesota, Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division will introduce its latest technological advancements that the company expects will set new standards for the aerial mapping industry. The meeting will take place on Monday, May 2 from 1-5 in room 202 E of the Frontier Airlines Center

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Keystone Aerial Surveys Upgrades to Vexcel Imaging UltraCamXp

Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc., has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to upgrade its UltraCamL camera system to an UltraCamXp. “The UltraCamL camera performed very well for us, but the larger footprint of the UltraCamXp will be a better fit with our three other UltraCamX cameras,” said Mary Potter, GISP, President of Keystone

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Vexcel Imaging receives ISO 9001:2008 Certificate

On 4 February 2011, Vexcel Imaging GmBH, a Microsoft® company, received an ISO 9001:2008 Certificate from  the certification body SystemCERT. This certifies that Vexcel Imaging has implemented and maintains a Quality Management System which fulfills the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2008 and has demonstrated a commitment to continuous improvement of its processes. Learn

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

GEODETICCA 3D WORKS Purchases UltraCamLp

Geodeticca 3D Works has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp digital aerial camera system. This is the first digital aerial camera ever purchased by a Slovak company. The transaction was realized by UltraCam distributor Expert_for_3D_Landscape, based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Learn More

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Microsoft UltraCamXp Wide Angle Camera and UltraMap Software Win Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry Award

Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiary Vexcel Imaging, GmbH were the winners of the Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry award at the Geospatial World Forum Conference for the company’s UltraCamXp Wide Angle digital aerial camera and for the monolithic stitching capability of its UltraMap workflow software. The honor was received on 18 January 2011 in Hyderabad, India,

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Vexcel Imaging Selects Jena Instrument as Distributor for Russia and CIS

Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, has entered into an agreement with Jena Instrument to distribute its UltraCam line of photogrammetric digital aerial cameras in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Under the terms of the agreement, Jena Instrument, a leader in the Russian geospatial industry, will act as an authorized distributor of

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