Blue Marble Presents Paper at ELMF 2012 on LiDAR Post Processing in Global Mapper

Hallowell, Maine - December 11th, 2012 - Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to have been selected to present a paper on post processing LiDAR data with Global Mapper at the European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria. Blue Marble's geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology companies, as well as governmental and university organizations.

Global Mapper, which handles all versions of LAS data including 1.4 and LAS zip, has many great tools for post processing LiDAR data. Blue Marble President, Patrick Cunningham, was asked to speak about Blue Marble's cutting edge data processing software and solutions. The talk focused on the tools ability to process point cloud in a variety of manners including creating elevation grids, vectoring the data in a variety of manners including based on range and values of degrees or elevation. The talk was well received and many attendees commented on how easy the tool was to use. The Blue Marble team was excited to showcase all of their products, which include the Blue Marble Desktop, the Geographic Calculator, Global Mapper, GeoCore, GeoCalc, and the Global Mapper developer toolkits, to our European Survey and GIS user communities.

"ELMF has become an excellent conference for learning about a variety of LiDAR collection tools," stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. "We were very pleased to have the opportunity to showcase a great tool for post processing that data, thus showing users some capabilities of Blue Marble that they may not have been aware of."

About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, ME is a leading developer and provider of software products and services for highly accurate geospatial data conversion solutions. Blue Marble is known for their coordinate conversion and file format expertise and is the developer of The Geographic Calculator, GeoCalc SDK, Global Mapper, Global Energy Mapper, and Global Mapper SDK. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over 19 years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

Contact Information:
Liz Arline
Blue Marble Geographics
Hallowell, ME, USA
info@bluemarblegeo.com
800-616-2725
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