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I-CUBED TO RESELL KEYHOLE'S EARTHVIEWER TECHNOLOGY
i-cubed showcases Keyhole's EarthViewer at
ESRI International User's Conference
San Diego, CA, July 14, 2001 -- Keyhole Corporation, a rich mapping software and service
provider for location-critical applications, and i-cubed, a geographic data provider in
Fort Collins, CO, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership. Under the
terms of the agreement, i-cubed will become a reseller of Keyhole's EarthSystem™,
allowing delivery of i-cubed products over the Internet via a co-branded version of
Keyhole's EarthViewer 3D™ streaming geospatial browser. This powerful combination of
leading edge visualization technology and seamless continental satellite imagery was
displayed at the ESRI User's Conference in San Diego, CA, July 9-13, 2001.
The partnership between Keyhole and i-cubed offers GIS professionals a turnkey solution
for instant access to i-cubed's entire ImageMap USA™ mosaic online through Keyhole's
EarthSystem solution. EarthSystem provides a seamless, imagery-based, global 3D model
of the earth, fused with digital street maps, points of interest, business listings, and
customer-hosted, application specific data. Keyhole's EarthViewer 3D client software
allows non-technical users to fluidly interact with massive geospatial databases through
PCs and Internet-enabled wireless devices. The co-branded application will incorporate
i-cubed's ImageMap USA mosaic, a seamless, digital mosaic produced from nearly 450
recent Landsat 7 scenes. ImageMap USA mosaic is the most up-to-date, highest resolution,
country-wide image of the US ever produced.
"EarthViewer is the best way for people to experience our imagery in its entirety.
Customers can view details of the whole country as if they were literally flying over
it, there's really no other way to access this amount of data, this quickly"; said
Rob Keith, Product Manager of Instant Imagery at i-cubed"This technology allows
our customers to publish their GIS data to their whole organization in a way anyone can
understand"
This partnership gives i-cubed a visually stunning solution for displaying their imagery
products, which will provide the company with new service offerings and marketing
opportunities. Keyhole will receive updates to the imagery as they become available,
and will work with i-cubed to improve continental resolution and map other areas around
the world.
"i-cubed was the first company to step forward and map the entire United States to
this resolution. The resulting image is fantastic, making it an ideal baselayer for
Keyhole's EarthSystem, the first realistic, online 3D 'Digital Earth' which will
revolutionize mapping as we know it," said David Lorenzini, Director of Content for
Keyhole. "ESRI users create and publish more geospatial information than anyone --
By moving this complex GIS data to the masses, we help people communicate visually, in a
way that anyone can understand. When i-cubed's data is combined with our other
geographic layers and customer specific information, the result is a personalized,
realistic visual environment that lays the world at your feet."
About Keyhole
Based in Mountain View, CA, Keyhole, Inc. provides a ground-breaking, realistic 3D
mapping infrastructure for location-based services and applications. The Company's
proprietary EarthSystem technology transforms the way users interact with their world.
Keyhole's turnkey ASP solution provides instant access to terabytes of geospatial data
fused into a single, coherent dataset and its flexible client architecture enables
access from PCs, PDAs, and cell phones. Keyhole's breakthrough solution delivers a new
perspective on the world for Fortune-500 customers and drives customer acquisition and
retention for service provider partners by offering a content-rich environment for
location-based services. Further information on Keyhole is available at the company's
website, http://www.earthviewer.com.
About i-cubed
i-cubed is a geo-processing service organization that offers complete business solutions
based on information and geodata derived from air photos, satellite imagery and other
sources of geographic information. Its impressive client base includes many of the
world's largest wireless telecommunications companies, radio-frequency tool providers,
and industry leaders in land and natural resource management, agriculture government
organizations, and visual simulation applications.
The company was founded by President Russell S. Cowart in 1993 in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Image samples and more information are available from i-cubed's web site at www.i3.com.
Contact:
E. Kirsten Andersen
Director of Communications
kirsten@keyholecorp.com
650.625.9400 x23
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