Orbit GT Supports Microsoft UltraCam Panther Backpack at Capturing Reality, Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria, November 23rd, 2015 – Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies is proud to announce that it supports the Microsoft UltraCam Panther backpack system and vehicle mounted system UltraCam Mustang and will showcase the solution at Capturing Reality, Salzburg, this week.

“We’re very excited to showcase the support of the UltraCam Panther backpack and the UltraCam Mustang in our software solutions.“, says Peter Bonne, CEO at Orbit GT. “It has been a pleasure to work with the Microsoft UltraCam team to accomplish this in a very short time. It’s exciting that these new technologies become widely available and we see a great future in our cooperation.”

“We just recently launched our two new terrestrial mapping systems, the UltraCam Panther backpack system and the vehicle mounted UltraCam Mustang system. Both systems represent state-of-the art mapping systems with unique technical features and are expanding the UltraCam aerial camera family into terrestrial”, says Alexander Wiechert, Microsoft Business Director for UltraCam. “With this launch of new sensors, we are excited partnering with Orbit Geospatial Technologies and have our systems supported by their software solutions. That results in an industry leading workflow with upmost customer benefits. Both teams worked greatly together and it is fantastic to showcase the combined solution already at Capturing Reality in Salzburg this week.”
 
About MicroSoft UltraCam
Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit is located in Graz, Austria, and brings more than two decades of photogrammetry expertise to Microsoft’s Bing Maps business unit. The division is responsible for the highly successful line of UltraCam digital aerial mapping systems. Recently, the UltraCam family has been expanded by terrestrial mapping systems, mainly the backpack system UltraCam Panther and the vehicle mounted system UltraCam Mustang.

About Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies
Orbit Geospatial Technologies is world leader in solutions for exploiting Mobile Mapping, UAS and Aerial Mapping data in managing, viewing, extracting, publishing, sharing and embedding in workflows. Orbit GT is headquartered in Lokeren, Belgium.