Italy Purchases Digital Elevation Mapping Data

This most recent delivery to the IGMI reinforces the value of Intermap's proactive creation of elevation data across Italy under the Company's NEXTMap Europe program. Before the completion of NEXTMap Europe, organisations were forced to settle for outdated, inaccurate, and non-uniform digital elevation data, or had to rely on expensive custom data collection efforts, to meet their needs.

IGMI is using the NEXTMap elevation data to improve the national geospatial data infrastructure in Italy. The decision to acquire NEXTMap data was based on the success of the Torino 2006 IFSAR elevation mapping project. Covering 5,600 square kilometres of the Piemonte region, that project included some of northwestern Italy's most varied terrain, including the three most challenging environments to model - high alpine, lowland floodplain, and urban. The extreme differences in elevation, from mountain areas in the Alps to deeply incised river valleys, provided a serious test of the integrity of data collection and processing systems. The project earned Intermap top honors in the Photogrammetry / Elevation Data Generation category at the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards in 2007.