Earth Resource Mapping recently announced the formation of a strategic partnership with AgroGIS, Brazil. AgroGIS is an established leader in the provision of GIS solutions and data consultancy in the agricultural market in southern Brazil. AgroGIS intends to offer ER Mapper as part of their integrated GIS management solutions package.

After several years in the GIS Brazilian market, AgroGIS flagship product - AgroGIS 2.0 has played an important role in widening the use of Earth Resource Mapping's compression file format ECW. Even with a limited amount of RAM (64 MB), AgroGIS can load the compressed file and quickly perform zoom in/out operations. In conjunction with realtime GPS tracking, this solution provides help to the field operators collecting observations on the ground.

Joe Fernando Martins of AgroGIS said, "Today, Brazil plays a major role in the world's food production chain and the use of technological solutions is growing very fast. Industries in the agricultural sector are increasingly using geo-spatial images to analyse their data and monitor their crops. After analysing several options, we have selected ECW as AgroGIS' native image file format. We look forward to renewing our relationship with Earth Resource Mapping in Brazil."

For more information contact Helen Rosa, Earth Resource Mapping, helen.rosa@ermapper.co.uk