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Intermap Wins $1.8M Mapping Services Solutions Contract

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Location-based solutions company Intermap was awarded a $1.8 million contract for an airborne radar mapping services solution. The company is using its proprietary Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technology to collect orthorectified radar imagery and high resolution elevation data. The project will commence immediately and the final deliveries of the dataset are expected to be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter 2014.

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