Arvada, Colorado, May 2005 - Pixxures, Inc., a leading provider of Aerial mapping, and imagery web services, announced another direct digital aerial mapping project – the City of Chicago. This marks one of several direct digital projects that Pixxures will be completing, or has already completed this year.

The project area consists of 441.45 square miles. The aerial imagery was acquired in a manner suitable for the production of six-inch resolution natural-color digital orthophotography. Pixxures will utilize its patented ortho-update technology in order to leverage City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois’ existing Digital Terrain Model (DTM) data thus reducing the overall cost. The multi-spectral capability of Pixxures’ technology offers the City of Chicago the option to take receipt of the Near InFRARED band to support environmental needs.

“Our goals for the program are to obtain 6 inch resolution color imagery that will supplement the City of Chicago’s geospatial database to support change detection, planning, and asset management. Minimizing building lean and obscured features, as well as leveraging our existing investment in mapping data is key to the success of this project. Pixxures’ ability to deliver the benefits of a direct digital product within a tight time constraint at a competitive price, along with the option of having the NIR data available, are what helped us in the decision making process to accept their proposal to complete the project,” said David Updike, GIS Application Architect for the City of Chicago.

“The solution that we proposed addresses the problems that the height of the buildings create for the quality of data the City of Chicago needs,” said Larry Schaner, Vice President of Technical Sales. “Our technology enables us to drastically reduce the building lean and increase the detail in areas where shadows might cover critical features that need to be visible. The result will be higher quality imagery, offering more valuable data to the City of Chicago.”

Aerial image capture occurred in mid-April and processing will be completed within 90-days after receipt of all customer furnished materials.

About Pixxures
Pixxures, Inc. is a services company located in the Denver area and is focused on developing new and advanced technologies that result in high quality and cost effective mapping and photogrammetry solutions for its customers. The company continues to pioneer the use of new technologies to speed the creation and delivery of imagery and mapping products for business decision support. The company serves a broad base of clients including telecommunications, oil and gas, real estate, and governments. For more information, or to see a demonstration of our capabilities, please go online to www.pixxures.com or call Josie Sanchez at 303-302-8544.