Aerometrex senior managers will be present at the ISPRS Conference in Beijing from 5th-11th July. The Conference will see the launch of Chinametrex, Aerometrex's partner company servicing the China mainland with aerial survey services and mapping. If you will be in Beijing for the Conference, come and see us at Booth #340.

Aerometrex announces the winning of a major project for the Queensland Government, to be administered by the Dept of Natural Resources and Water on behalf of the Environmental Protection Authority. The project is aimed at monitoring of the Queensland coastline from Urangan to St Lawrence, using high-resolution and medium-resolution digital aerial imagery. The project will be flown during July 2008.

Aerometrex announces that it has won a substantial amount of digital aerial photography work in the Northern Territory. The contract, for the NT Dept of Planning and Infrastructure and its client FACSIA, is well underway and will cover approx 33 sites in the Top End with high-resolution Ultracam aerial imagery. The imagery will be used for a variety of applications including DPI's mapping programmes, infrastructure development and Aboriginal community mapping. A number of mining company clients have utilized our presence in the area to commission other work. Please let us know if you have an NT project that needs aerial imagery.

The South Australian Department for Environment & Heritage has commissioned Aerometrex for the digital aerial survey of the Yorke Peninsula (through to the Flinders Ranges), South East Region of South Australia and the River Murray – from the SA/Vic border through to the Murray Mouth.

Aerometrex has delivered the 35cm resolution coverages to the Adelaide Hills (795 sq kms), Barossa Regional (893 sq kms) and Light Regional Councils (1,252 sq kms). All 3 councils were flown at the same time in January 2008. A number of major towns in both the Barossa & Light Regional Councils were also covered at 15cm resolution and processing of this data to orthophotos is currently being completed.

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The Aerometrex Group has taken delivery this month of a new Microsoft Vexcel UltraCam X large format digital camera.

The UltraCam X is the most advanced digital frame camera on the market boosting 14,430 x 9,420 pixels, without sacrificing radiometric performance.

As large scale mapping applications are rapidly becoming important, the ability to deliver imagery at fast intervals has become critical.

The UltraCam X collects pixels at a sustained rate of 3 GBits per second. It maintains a forward overlap of 70% at 3 cm pixels and an 80% overlap at 5 cm pixels is feasible at normal flying speeds.

The camera was deployed immediately on a large project in Africa for collecting 10 cm imagery.

With 2 high performance large format digital mapping cameras in service, the Aerometrex Group is now in pole position of being the only Australian company to have this capability.