Infotech bags $4mn Los Angeles contract

The Los Angeles Region Imagery Acquisition Consortium (LAR-IAC), a consortium of 26 state and local government agencies within the county of Los Angeles, has selected VARGIS LLC, a fully-owned subsidiary of Infotech Enterprises Limited in the US, to provide digital aerial imagery data with GIS, web mapping system with computer-aided design and engineering design applications. The contract, to be executed in a year's span, is for $3.8 million

Hyderabad-based Infotech will be providing digital imagery data and related photogrammetric services for the entire 4,100 square miles of Los Angeles county area.

The company will be capturing data with three Zeiss/Intergraph Digital Mapping Cameras (DMC) systems and LiDAR, the most advanced digital aerial imagery technologies available today.

"We are delighted to bag the contract for the consortium. This will be a significant milestone for Infotech in the field of digital aerial imagery data with GIS applications. By using a multi-resolution approach, Infotech will efficiently capture both the urban and rural areas," BVR Mohan Reddy, Infotech's chairman and chief executive officer, stated in a press release here on Monday.