PCI Geomatica

Image processing packages

Geomatica is one of several software packages available to the educational, commercial, and military users. Other similar packages include Erdas Imagine, Envi, and SocetSet (or Socet GXP). Geomatica has also been compared to Envi and Erdas Imagine as it relates to orthorectification.

Educational institutions using Geomatica

Over 2,700 educational institutions worldwide have used Geomatica as part of their Remote Sensing course delivery, some of which are listed here

• University of Calgary, Geomatics Engineering program
• York University, Geomatics Engineering programs, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• University of New Brunswick, Online Course offered on Radarsat-2 and Polarimetry
• Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
• Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
• Université du Québec à Montréal, Remote Sensing course GEO8142
• Aalto University, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• North Eastern University (NEU), Boston, USA
• University of Arkansas
• University of Victoria
• Fanshawe College, London, Ontario
• TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Remote Sensing Group
• Saint Mary's University (SMU), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
• Stellenbosch University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Centre for Geographical Analysis, South Africa

Open Geospatial Consortium

Geomatica includes a web coverage service interface that complies with the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, which is a key area in which PCI Geomatics has contributed. Remote Sensing data providers distribute data in diverse formats, which makes sharing information across many different platforms challenging. WCS seeks to alleviate some of the data sharing challenges by publishing the geographic information and layers openly over the web.

Contributions to open standards

Geomatica adheres to open standards to promote sharing and collaboration of earth observation data. An SDK that makes the PCIDSK file format available to the community is available.

References

References

1. "An independent review of the software and its functionality written by Directions Magazine".
2. "Comparison of orthorectification methods suitable for rapid mapping using direct georeferencing and rpc for optical satellite data".
3. "Information Technologies - Information Technologies".
4. "Home page of Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing".
5. "Online Certificate in Remote Sensing {{!".
6. "Geosciences (GEOS) | 2011-2012 Catalog of Studies | University of Arkansas".
7. (4 August 2015). "Geographic Information Systems (GIS)".
8. "Remote Sensing Group".
9. "Saint Mary's University | Geography - Home".
10. "PCI Geomatics signs Strategic Education Alliance Agreement with Stellenbosch University".
11. "PCIDSK SDK - Read/Write Library for the PCI PCIDSK (.pix) File Format".