COMPANY HISTORY

Digital Mapping Systems Pty Ltd (DMS)

The company was founded in 1991 by its CEO, Ian Hall [ ian (dot) hall (at) digmapsys (dot) com ], who is a Photogrammetric Engineer (ITC Netherlands) and Licensed Surveyor.

The first major project undertaken in 1991 was to provide orientation and mapping software for analytical stereoplotters being constructed from older analog machines such as the Kern PG-2 and Wild B8. Amazingly some of these early conversions are still in operation.

The next major project undertaken by DMS was the construction of a portable analytical stereoplotter which found limited success since its arrival coincided with the arrival of the first embryonic softcopy systems.

The Topcon Corporation of Japan next commissioned DMS to provide orientation software for their PA-2000 analytical stereoplotter.

In 1995 a large program of forest inventory work commenced on the east coast of Australia. We were convinced that a mono-plotting system would do the digital transfer job, took a gamble and built our first mono-plotting system. The very successful DMS SinglePhoto System was the precursor of our SPSCREEN system. One project alone saw annotated polygons collected from more than 16,000 unrectified aerial photographs. Each polygon was assigned a code indicating forest type and characteristics and over 600,000 polygons were generated in that one project.

We are currently working on the following software systems:

  • Rectification of JPEG 2000 and ECW images (as well as JPEG and BMP).
  • Regrowth surveys of coupes using rectified JPEG 2000 and ECW images.
  • Rewriting our SinglePhoto system to work with Wintab-compliant digitizing tablets.

 

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