GeoINT 2009 turned out to be a great show with good attendance. We interviewed 30 companies. All of the interviews are now posted at:

http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?category_id=10197

While all of the interviews are excellent, some stand out more than others because of the sheer enthusiasm and genuine excitement of the interviewees. I was really impressed with Al Wargo of Zebra Imaging and the holographic technologies they are bringing out to maps and CAD drawings. The color holograms were truly astonishing (at about 3:50 time marker in the interview).

I was also struck by the enthusiasm of Jeff Peters of ESRI when he was talking about an upcoming release of ARCGIS 9.4. Jeff is extremely knowledgeable and it seems he is pretty involved and truly excited about this release.

Cherie Darnel of ITT was another standout. She just has a great personality. Her enthusiasm about their ENVI product is infectious.

Everyone at the DigitalGlobe was really pumped up about their new satellite which went up in the orbit a couple of weeks ago and sent some great images beginning of last week. They also have a great stand-out booth. It was a real privilege to meet Dr. Walter Scott who founded Digital Globe literally in his garage in 1992.

It is really fun to interview someone who is passionate about something. Mark Brender of GeoEYE perfectly fits this category. He is really passionate about the GeoEYE Foundation and his face lights up when he talks about it.

We do record the video interviews in front of a green screen and then replace the green screen with pictures of the corresponding booths. The interviewees are asked ahead of time not to wear green. But some of the ‘booth uniforms’ are green and the interviewees forget about the green screen at the interview time. This happened with Dylan Lorimer of Google and Jerry Skaw of Microsoft. See if you can notice the video editing artifacts in these interviews.

Next stop — Autodesk University in Las Vegas on December 1 …

I got back from Germany last week after attending a great Intergeo 2009 conference. The halls were buzzing with activity all the time. There were about 500 booths at the show and 15,000 attendees. Most booths were extremely busy.

We recorded twenty interviews at Intergeo 2009. You can see them on GISCafe.Com homepage.

We are now getting ready to go to the GEOINT 2009 conference in San Antonio, Texas. We have already booked the following interviews:

1. Google
2. SPADAC
3. TerraGo Technologies
4. Global Insights
5. Spot-Infoterra
6. Microsoft
7. Adobe Systems
8. Zebra Imaging
9. Isilon Systems
10. Silicon Graphics
11. GeoEye
12. Navteq
13. PCI Geomatics
14. LizardTech
15. Applanix
16. ERDAS
17. ESRI
18. NJVC
19. GeoIQ
20. Inline Corporation
21. Northrop Grumman

Here is what you can expect to see at some of the booths:

• BAE Systems will demonstrate automated geospatial-intelligence analysis and reporting with its SOCET GXP® v3.1 software, which offers high-definition video analysis, terrain profiling, hyperspectral and multispectral image processing, and real-time visualization. (Booth #503)
• AGI to Demonstrate Software That Adds Time-Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to GIS (booth#761)
• Northrop Grumman will highlight its end-to-end geospatial solutions in support of the national security and intelligence communities (booth#355)
• IDV Solutions to Present Latest Visual Mashup Advances at GeoInt + Visual Fusion 4.5 Beta preview (@ Microsoft’s booth#661)
• PCI Geomatics Booth#348
  • GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) – PCI Geomatic’s award winning GPU enabled solution will be processing thousands of images automatically
  • GeoConference – real-time tactical collaboration demo - Hurricane Ike (Galveston, Texas)
  • Advanced SAR analysis – operational change detection and target analysis using Polarimetric SAR data

We have signed up the following 19 companies for video interviews at Intergeo:

1. Aerodata International Surveys
2. Altus Positioning Systems Inc.
3. Applanix Corporation
4. BAE Systems
5. Carlson Software, Inc.
6. Definiens AG
7. DigiTerra Information Services
8. DiMAC
9. ERDAS, Inc.
10. GEO-3D
11. Infoterra GmbH
12. Intermap Technologies GmbH
13. Latitude Geographics / Geocostex GIS Software
14. Pitney Bowes Software GmbH
15. RapidEye AG
16. Simactive
17. softelec GmbH
18. SPACEYES
19. SuperGeo Technologies Inc.

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Here is what some of these companies are presenting at Intergeo:

Pitney Bowes @ Booth#4.632
Presenting MapInfo Professional v10 .0 which delivers costs savings and improved operational efficiencies. Leading location intelligence solution features enhanced data access, new user interface and open source support.

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SpacEyes @ Booth#1.209
Presenting the new release 3.3.1 of SpacEyes3D Builder, the real time fly through and 3D model making software.

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Cadcorp @ Booth#4.115
Demonstrating the capabilities of the latest release of Cadcorp SIS 7; the new Cadcorp ALKIS Loader to translate and load GML files into an Oracle or PostGIS database and the latest web GIS products based upon Cadcorp SIS GeognoSIS.

The Cadcorp ALKIS Loader is provided FREE with a copy of Cadcorp SIS MapModeller desktop GIS.

Cadcorp partner, Nurtech, from Cagliari in Sardinia will be presenting a paper at the conference titled ‘INSPIRE – Practical examples from Sardinia’. The paper is based upon the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/ED) and highlights the principles of geographic data sharing and accessibility within the Sardinian Government.

Cadcorp will be joined by Hartwick Treckmann of GisME® who will be showing applications dealing with Graveyard Management, Fire Services and data translation techniques for converting Smallworld™ data to Cadcorp SIS.

Finally, Cadcorp continues to grow its business partner network in Europe and welcomes such organisations to its stand.

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I am preparing to go to Intergeo 2009 in Germany for video coverage of the show for GISCafe. Send me a message if you are going too. GISCafe is at booth#4.133.

This is the largest GIS show in the world with more than 480 exhibitors and 16,000 attendees. I am very excited to attend this show.

We finally did 34 video interviews at the ESRI Users Conference. The videos are available at:

http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_categories.php

I am planning to go to GEOINT 2009 in San Antonio and do some more interviews. Let me know if you have any new announcements at the show and I will be happy to interview you.

If you are not able to go to the show but have a burning or difficult question for a company, let me know. I will be sure to ask it on your behalf.

There has been an overwhelming response to the video interview invitation. We have booked the following selected companies for video interviews at the ESRI conference:

1. Accela
2. Adapx
3. ADC WorldMap
4. Avenza Systems Inc.
5. BAE Systems
6. Contex
7. ESi/WebEOC
8. ESRI
9. ESRI Canada
10. GeoEye
11. ITT
12. LizardTech
13. Merrick & Company
14. Navteq
15. PCI Geomatics
16. Penn State University
17. Pixxures, Inc.
18. Placeways, LLC
19. Safe Software
20. Sanborn Map Company
21. Sidwell Company, The
22. SPADAC
23. Trimble Navigation
24. SurveyLab
25. Telcordia
26. Topcon
27. UNIGIS Distance Learning

I am planning to go to the ESRI Users Conference in San Diego on July 14th and 15th. We will interview many exhibitors, presenters, and attendees at the show. Drop me a line if you want to be interviewed and the topic you want to cover. Check out some of the videos from last 12 months at:

• http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_categories.php
• http://www.giscafe.com/video/index.php?conf=ESRI08
• http://www.giscafe.com/video/index.php?conf=ASPRS08

Also let me know if you want us to ask a particular question to the companies.

We have just launced a beta version of GISCafe Blogs. Let me know if you are interested in blogging on GISCafe.

You can blog about anything that would be of interest to the GISCafe audience. GISCafe provides you access to more than 100,000 unique visitors every month. The blogs would be included in our daily newsletter sent to 40,000 subscribers.