Helping You Achieve More on a Tighter Budget

Hundreds of organizations representing universities, local governments, federal agencies, commercial GIS providers, and military services depend upon Feature Analyst^™ or LIDAR Analyst^® software to solve complicated feature extraction problems. Our customers stretch across every continent except Antarctica. Yet this diverse group now faces a common concern: budgetary pressure.

They are being asked to achieve more with less. They need more effective tools, so the Feature Analyst and LIDAR Analyst products are filling the gap. Customers who own a few copies are begging for additional copies, but they still have those annoying budgets... Well we've been listening, so entering this new year, we've reduced the cost of acquiring either product by over 50%! Now's the time to purchase or upgrade copies of Feature Analyst and LIDAR Analyst software at this new lower price so you can take advantage of the benefits throughout the year.

How People are Achieving More with Analyst Software

Automatic feature extraction enables activities that once seemed impractical because of human limitations. People are using Feature Analyst and LIDAR Analyst to achieve positive results in a wide variety of projects, as seen in these examples* of recently published research efforts:

• Feature Analyst software characterized the amount of tree windbreaks surrounding farm fields in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, producing a classification accuracy of 92% and revealing that shelterbelts make a significant contribution of carbon biomass stores. (Exploring satellite image analysis methods for characterizing Canterbury shelterbelts, and the application to carbon modeling, 2011 Thesis by Lindsay Czerepowicz, Lincoln University)
• LIDAR Analyst software processed the LIDAR data sets for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, providing raster data to assess land use patterns in an urbanized landscape. ("Mapping Land Use Patterns in an Urbanizing Landscape Using LIDAR Intensity Data," 2010 Conference Paper by Kunwar K. Singh, et al., West Virginia University, Optical Remote Sensing of the Environment Meeting)
• Feature Analyst software enabled spectral classification of the entire Coal River Watershed in West Virginia to evaluate landscape disturbance related to coal mining. ("Disturbance Mapping and Landscape Modeling of Mountaintop Mining," 2011 Conference Paper by Aaron E. Maxwell, et al., Esri International Users Conference)
• LIDAR Analyst software inventoried individual trees along municipal streets, demonstrating it was possible to adequately describe 88% of a community's street trees and evaluate the resource value to the community. (Using LIDAR data and geographical information system (GIS) technology to assess municipal street tree inventories, 2011 Dissertation by John Wesley Jones, Jr., PhD, Mississippi State University)

If you'd like to know how Feature Analyst or LIDAR Analyst could benefit your efforts, contact Overwatch by email request or call (800) 937-6881.

*These publically available research studies utilized Feature Analyst or LIDAR Analyst as part of the process of conducting the research, but this does not necessarily indicate endorsement of either product by the authors or organizations involved in the research.

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