ER Mapper brings satellite imagery to all Shell desktops

ER Mapper brings satellite imagery to all Shell desktops

The Netherlands, 25 May 2006

ER Mapper announced the rollout of a new software solution for Shell
Exploration and Production that makes Shell's twelve terabyte archive
of satellite imagery available to users throughout the world. The
solution was built by ER Mapper's Enterprise Services Team and
features the Image Web Server product, which uses patented image
compression and serving technologies to provide a fast and responsive
system, even when serving very large images to many users.

Using a web browser, users simply zoom to a particular location to see
the list of images available for that area. They can then ask for
information about the images, examine them, compare them with others,
and if desired, bring them directly into desktop applications like ER
Mapper's image processing product, Microsoft Word or ESRI's ArcGIS
product. The solution provides all Shell's potential imagery users,
regardless of their background or knowledge of image processing, with
a centralised, easy-to-access repository of images. Users include
Remote Sensing, GIS, and CAD specialists who needed to use the imagery
in their desktop applications, as well as non-specialist staff who
might want to do something as simple as embedding some local imagery
into a document or presentation.

Richard Eyers, Shell Remote Sensing Consultant said, "We wanted a
system that would reduce the time needed for loading and reprocessing
images and consequently give our remote sensing group more time to do
value-added work. Furthermore, we wanted both specialist and
non-specialist users to be able to quickly find and access imagery
from the archive, providing us with an increased return on our
investment in remotely sensed data."

David Hayward, the European Vice President of ER Mapper said, "It is
tremendously exciting to see the benefits that this system is bringing
to Shell. It is the result of years of collaboration, and leverages
the latest technology to deliver a solution that wouldn't have even
been possible a few years ago."

About Shell Exploration and Production
Shell Exploration and Production is engaged in the upstream activities
of acquiring, exploring, developing and producing oil and gas.

Shell companies have been finding and producing oil and gas around the
world for over a century. Today, they have interests in exploration
and production ventures in more than 36 countries and employ
approximately 28,000 staff including contractors.

About ER Mapper
ER Mapper is the world leader in geospatial image solutions. ER Mapper
solutions are used by organisations in more than 120 countries to
process, manage, compress, integrate and disseminate geospatial
imagery.

ER Mapper innovations include dynamic algorithm-based image
processing, patented image compression technology, the
industry-standard ECW compressed file format, patented image serving
technology, and ground-breaking geospatial systems integration
technology to quickly build geospatial portals that bring together
raster and vector information from many different sources.

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