GISmatters provides targeted services and solutions to your needs involving location, distance, connection, and other relationships among data sets. We deliver accurate, apt, and appealing solutions that transform data to performance-improving insight. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, database, data visualization, statistical, and custom software applications, GISmatters creates maps that illuminate, analyses that reveal, and products that perform.

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Conceptual/Analytical/Methodological Expertise

GIS

• data automation, raster-to-vector conversion, GPS integration, address geocoding, attribution, validation, multi-criteria/constraint mapping, network/route analysis, raster modeling, Monte Carlo methods, error propagation, terrain analysis, hydrologic/watershed modeling, visibility analysis

Remote Sensing

• geocoding/rectification, radiometric/atmospheric correction, terrain correction, kernel/convolution filtering, supervised (e.g., MLE) & unsupervised (e.g., ISOCLASS) classification, PCA/EOF, Fourier/wavelet methods, data fusion, change detection, hyperspectral methods, feature extraction

Statistics/geostatistics

• analysis of variance, multivariate regression analysis, spatial pattern analysis, interpolation and prediction, kriging, spectral/timeseries analysis, cluster analysis

Visualization

• 2D/3D/more-D, plot/image/schematic, map to globe, swath profile, multi-surface, animation, more...

Computer Expertise

Applications

• GIS: ArcGIS 8.x/9.x, ARC/INFO, ArcView 3.x, Manifold 7.x, QGIS, GRASS, IDRISI, Access, Crystal Reports

• Remote Sensing/Image Processing: ER Mapper, PCI, ENVI, Imagine, PhotoShop, ArcGIS

• Visualization: IBM Data Explorer/OpenDX, IDL, PV-WAVE, MATLAB

• PC/Mac: Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint, CorelDraw, Canvas, PhotoShop, Illustator, HyperCard

Programming

• High-level: VB/VBA, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Fortran, MPI, Pascal, FORTH, HyperTalk

• Application/scripting: ArcObjects, ARC/INFO AML, IDL, MATLAB, ERMapper, Excel, Access

• Graphics: HOOPS, HPGL, OpenDX, Calcomp

• Operating system programming: Unix (ksh, csh and variants; sed/awk; Perl); VMS DCL

• Assembly: 8051, 80x86, 680x0, 6502

Operating Systems

• Unix (mainly ksh, csh, & tcsh), Linux, Solaris, VMS, Windows 9x/2k/NT/XP, Mac, MSDOS, others

Web

• HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, CGI, various GUI web editors

Hardware

• Sun SPARC/Ultra, PC, Mac, IBM SP/2 Parallel Supercomputer, DECstations/Alpha, others