In an article co-written by International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. President & CEO, Peter Rabley, and David Critchley of Blom Aerofilms, ILS contributed its technology solution to making a more efficient oblique image workflow.

Previously, oblique image collection meant sacrificing many gigabytes of drive space.  Accessing an image and matching it to a ground location was done manually.  An example of workflow inefficiencies from the article:

"Furthermore, oblique processing involves five desktop software applications and 27 discrete steps, nearly all of which require manual supervision.  Managers spent much time determining where data files were in the workflow at a given time."

The Land Registry System (LRS) software package by ILS was instrumental in automating the registration, archiving, and awarding of land titles while offering sophisticated spatial data handling built in to the software. The level of adaptability to any land management workflow made the off-the-shelf software package such a success.  Going through the five phases of the oblique workflow, with this particular spatial data management system (SDMS) employed, has been reduced by 30% as a result.  SDMS enjoys continued success in its data tracking and web access capabilities.

This article appeared in the March 2009 edition of GIM International (www.gim-international.com).

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