Bergman Photographic Services, Inc. (BPS) Purchases First UltraCamL in North America
Graz, Austria — Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, has signed a purchase agreement with Bergman Photographic Services, Inc. (BPS) of Portland, Oregon, for the first UltraCamL (UCL) in the US Pacific Northwest region. Delivery of the camera is scheduled for May, in time for the 2009 flying season.
“We’ve been looking at digital cameras for five years now. The UCL is the first offering to meet our image and mapping quality, performance and functionality requirements at a price point appropriate for the size of our business,” said Bruce Bergman, co-owner. “The fact that Vexcel will upgrade the UCL to the larger-footprint UltraCamLp when it becomes available, at no additional cost to us, combined with the UCL introductory offer, clinched our decision to make the purchase now.”
BPS will use the UCL to serve its existing customers, which are predominantly regional mapping firms. The UCL will enable these customers to compete on local projects that now require direct digital imagery. In addition, BPS will be able to serve larger national mapping firms when they have projects in the Pacific Northwest.
“We are pleased to see this response to our efforts to deliver a photogrammetric camera suitable for smaller projects and companies while maintaining the high quality associated with the UltraCam product line,” said Alexander Wiechert, Business Director of Microsoft and Managing Director for Vexcel Imaging GmbH. “We look forward to serving other regionally-focused companies with the UCL.”
About the UltraCamL
The UtraCamL digital medium format photogrammetric camera delivers many of the same technical capabilities of other models of the UltraCam family of digital aerial mapping cameras but in a smaller and lighter package design for use in smaller aircraft. It offers a 64 megapixel image format, a 1:2.2 pan sharpen ratio and collects RGB and NIR in parallel, all with forward motion compensation by TDI. These features allow it to deliver brilliant true-color and color-infrared (CIR) image quality with unmatched radiometric range, and make it ideal for smaller large-scale and photogrammetric projects, high-resolution (true) orthophoto production, multi-ray photogrammetry, corridor mapping, and lidar integration.
About Vexcel Imaging, GmbH
Acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006, Vexcel Imaging GmbH brings 20 years of photogrammetry expertise to Microsoft’s Virtual Earth business unit and is at the heart of the burgeoning Microsoft Photogrammetry business. The company’s offerings include its series of UltraCam digital aerial mapping cameras and related software tools such as the UltraMap workflow software and Office Processing Center software (OPC).
About Bergman Photographic Services Inc.
Bergman Photographic Services, Inc. (BPS), Portland, Oregon, has been providing outstanding imaging services to the Pacific Northwest since 1975. BPS specializes in precision mapping and oblique aerial photography. Clients engage BPS routinely throughout the West and occasionally Alaska, and points east. Its versatile fleet of five aircraft enables it to optimize efficiency for missions ranging from low obliques and large-scale mapping to high altitude and high speed for small-scale and long-line projects. For more information, visit http://www.bergmanphotographic.com/.