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With nearly 9,100 installations and more than 4,100 customers globally, FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO) and its international subsidiaries design, develop, and market software and portable, computerized measurement devices. The Company's products allow manufacturers to perform 3-D inspections of parts and assemblies on the shop floor. This helps eliminate manufacturing errors, and thereby increases productivity and profitability for a variety of industries in FARO's worldwide customer base. Principal products include the FARO Laser ScanArm; FARO Laser Scanner LS; FARO Gage and Gage-PLUS; Platinum, Digital Template, Titanium, Advantage FaroArms; the FARO Laser Tracker X and Xi; and the CAM2 family of advanced CAD-based measurement and reporting software. FARO Technologies is ISO 9001 certified and ISO-17025 laboratory registered.

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WWW: www.faro.com

RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems has more than 25 years of experience in the research, development, and production of laser radar measurement devices and systems, and is extremely successful throughout the world in this field of technology. RIEGL’s main objective is the design, development, and production of the best possible laser sensors worldwide for the desired application, and thus the perfect fulfilment of the given measurement task - fully satisfying our customer’s expectations. RIEGL is a mainly technology-oriented firm. Co-operation with powerful OEM-partners results in complete turn-key solutions.

Sales, training, support, and service are provided worldwide by the headquarters in Austria, by the RIEGL sales offices in the USA, in England, and in Japan, and by dozens of representatives in Europe, in North and South America, in Asia, in Australia, and in South Africa.

RIEGL’s headquarters is located in Horn, an attractive small town in Lower Austria with good transport connections around 85 km northwest of the Austrian capital Vienna right in the heart of Europe.

Approx. 20.000 square feet are available for research, development, and production and another 200.000 square feet of free space for test ranges. The staff includes some 80 graduated engineers, technicians, and other highly qualified and motivated staff members.

RIEGL has always been dedicated to the highest performance, quality, reliability, and longevity of its products and services. Strict adherence to international quality standards is a matter of course for us.

The RIEGL Product Line Comprises: Terrestrial Scanners, Airborne Scanners, Industrial Scanners, Distancemeters, Rangefinders, Speedmeters

Contact:

RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH
Riedenburgstraße 48
A-3580 Horn, Austria
Tel: +43 (2982) 4211
Fax: +43 (2982) 4210
E-mail: office(at)riegl.co.at
WWW: http://www.riegl.com/

Terra digital GmbH is a service provider who offers digital geo-data collected by two different sensor systems:

• digital camera system ADS40
• LIDAR system ALS50

Data collection may either be done from aircraft or helicopter.

By means of these systems and appropriate processing software, digital image data and elevation models of the following characteristics are offered to European customers:

• multi-spectral digital photos in PAN, RGB, CIR providing 12bit color depth and full geometric resolution in each spectral channel (without PAN-sharpening). The images’ ground sampling distance (GSD) is between 10 cm and 50 cm. With respect to quality and effort, an optimum is reached for digital image data of 10 – 30 cm GSD.
• digital ortho-photos and 3D-models derived from ADS40 image data
• nearly-true ortho-photos and true ortho-photos
  based on the ADS40’s exceptional construction (nadir view of RGB-channels)
• high-accuracy stereo evaluations by means of ADS40 forward-, backward and nadir images
• digital elevation models (DSM and DTM)) of point densities up to 4 measurements per m². The LIDAR’s maximum range of 3.500 m AGL make survey flights in alpine regions easy. 

Geo-data have been delivered for a variety of applications; some of them are

• CIR images plus stereo evaluations for environmental monitoring (large area vegetation identification and classification), forest monitoring, monitoring of agricultural
• RGB images as ortho-photos and true ortho-photos of cities, for setting up a cadastre
• elevation models for hydraulic simulation and ortho-photo rectification

Contact:

Terra digital GmbH & Co KG
An der Post 2, D-02906 Kreba-Neudorf, Germany
Tel: +49(0)35893 5005 0
Fax: +49(0)35893 5005 55
E-mail: info(at)terra-digital.net
WWW: http://www.terra-digital.net/

TopoSys GmbH was founded in spring 1995 as a spin-off of Dornier GmbH, an air- and spacecraft manufacturer of worldwide repute. In 1996 TopoSys presented the aviation-supported laser scanning system based on fiber technology, the first of its kind worldwide, including software for pre- and post processing, “Falcon I”. Since 1996 TopoSys has operated its own laser scanning system and has covered thousands of square kilometers in area for digital terrain models. Most of these models were generated for applications requiring data of very high resolution and high precision. Building on the expertise gained in operating “Falcon I” and the customer-oriented evaluation of the laser data, TopoSys presented an enhanced Lidar system “Falcon II” at the beginning of 2000. “Falcon II” has, for example, an additional spectral RGB/NIR scanner and enables digital true-ortho pictures of high resolution to be taken. The companies own TopPIT pre- and post processing software has also been subject to ongoing development and adapted to the extended capabilities of the new sensor. Since 2001 TopoSys has produced over 6,000 km² per annum of high resolution, digital terrain models and RGB/NIR data. In conjunction with the systematic development of customer-oriented applications in the GIS sector, TopoSys has assumed the role of the leading service provider throughout Europe. Building on the long-standing know-how in the development and production of fiber optic scanners and in the acquisition and evaluation of Lidar data, TopoSys decided at the end of 2003 to embark on the worldwide marketing of scanner hardware.

At October 2005 three newly developed sensor systems have been presented to the community. TopoSys now offers a well-balanced family of sensor systems, which allows its sensor customer to serve all applications from precise wide area mapping to corridor mapping in the optimal way.

Contact:

TopoSys GmbH
Obere Stegwiesen 26
D - 88400 Biberach
Tel.: 0049 7351 47402 0
Fax: 0049 7351 47402 31
E-mail: info(at)toposys.com
WWW: http://www.toposys.com/