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PCI GEOMATICSPost Globe 2010: Ontario meets the world
Toronto – Panel Discussion, March 29, 2010Large Area Carbon Monitoring from Satellite Imagery
The way forward
Trevor TaylorDirector Strategic Business Development
PCI Geomatics
Copyright © 2010 PCI Geomatics. All rights reserved.
"By helping the world measure carbon emissions and the effectiveness of plans to reduce those emissions, PCI is helping us
to win the fight against climate change.”
— Dalton McGuinty, Ontario Premier
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Table of Contents
• Company Profile
• Context
– The Problem
– The Solution
• PCI Geomatics Product and Services
• Carbon Monitoring
• Questions
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Company Profile
• Canadian corporation headquartered in Toronto and the National Capital Region (Ottawa), with operations in the USA, India, China and the UK
• 100 staff and 80 channel partners worldwide
• Leading provider of geoimaging desktop software with over 21,000 licenses sold around the world
• Global brand recognition and breakthrough with innovative production grade, award winning products
•Complete spectrum of client needs covered from researchers to country and region wide enterprises systems (e.g. South Korea, South Africa, Canada, India and others)
• We are committed to serving conservation & environmental groups to help sustain our earth
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Context
Google Earth ™ Bing Virtual Earth ™
Plus many more including; Bhuvan (ISRO
India), Skyline (USA); Open Source and many, many Others…..
These services begin with providing access to massive
quantities of pictures
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The Problem – Behind the Scenes
Peta Bytes plus of raw data from satellite and airborne sources, with an additional 100+ imaging satellites to be launched in the next decade and hundreds of Data providers each delivering products –processing challenge
Pro
cessing C
hallen
ge
Final Picture
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The Problem - CompoundedTHEN
NOW – Information Automatically extracted from Imagery
Numerous commercial satellites, enormous amounts of imagery and location data (terabytes, petabytes)
Few commercial satellites/aircrafts for acquiring data
Extremely powerful tools, ability to be quickly automated with, very simple interfaces
Very technical scientific users - slow, manual processing on desktop machines, sophisticated super user tools
Low resolution imagery
High resolution imagery
Paradigm Shift
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Geomatics is defined as:
The gathering, storing, processing,
analyzing and delivering of information
referenced to a location on the earth.
PCI Geomatics technology processes
pictures of the earth to provide
information products which are used to
improve the health, security, well being
and sustainability of our world.
Fast, Accurate and Cost Effective – Imagery provides accurate mission critical information.
One Image = Thousand of Words
The Solution
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Agriculture ExampleUsing satellite information RapidEye will provide crop insurers:
i) improved registration of fields and crops;
ii) more accurate damage assessment;
iii) reduced error and fraud in a more cost effective manner
Before:
Traditional Methods
After:
Image-Centric Approach
Savings 3%-5% of agriculture premiums – INDUSTRY SAVINGS $150M per annum
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25 year history
Worldwide distribution base
Leading technology
Desktop Software“Tools”
Full processing systems
Automation of existing systems
Outsourcing of processing
Purchasing of finished Information
products
Award Winning
Solutions
“Tools & Services”
Synergies
PCI Geomatics scale from small to massive
Desktop clients
buying services and
solutions
PCI Geomatics Products and Serives
Few Images ------------------------ thousands of Images
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Carbon Monitoring
• All levels of Government can use
imagery to monitor and report on the
C02 ,environmental impacts of urban
and rural planning, disaster
management, monitor changes in the
land-base, and public safety and
security over larger areas.
"Our Government is investing in innovative technologies to improveCanadians’ access to information on community planning, resourcedevelopment, and public health and safety," said The Honourable Gary Lunn,former Minister of Natural Resources.
"Partnerships such as this one with PCI Geomatics, will also help ensure thelong-term prosperity and competitiveness of Canada’s geomatics sector."
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Carbon Economy
• Governments deliver a major share of the
services essential to a nation’s social,
economic and environmental sustainability and
growth.
•To develop shared service solutions derived
from evidence based approaches using
Geoimagery based on Standards
• Provide organizations to inventory, monitor
and report and verify emission
•National and International Standards on
measurement of Carbon over large areas are
under development – Carbon Trading
Implication?
•Working with Woods Hole Research Center
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PCI Geomatics
Questions?
www.pcigeomticsc.com
http://www.pcigeomatics.com/pci-tv/
Mr. Trevor Taylor
Director, Strategic Business Development
PCI Geomatics Enterprises Inc
Tel: +1-905-764-0614 x 2279