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We have a number of corporate partners who, in their interest and commitment to geospatial technologies, provide us with equipment and software. We are very grateful to our corporate partners for their vision and leadership in working closely with CAST. These partnerships have provided our Faculty, Students and collaborators with the state-of-the-art geospatial tools.

	Definiens is the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence company for analyzing and interpreting images on every scale, from microscopic cell structures to satellite images. The Definiens Cognition Network Technology, developed by Nobel laureate Prof. Gerd Binnig and his team, is an advanced and robust context-based technology designed to fulfill the image analysis requirements of the Life and Earth sciences markets. The technology is modeled on the powerful human cognitive perception processes to extract intelligence from images and provides organizations with faster image analysis results, allowing deeper insights enabling better business decisions.

	eSpatial is a world leader in next generation geospatial technology. We are dedicated to providing the most efficient and effective environment to build integrated spatial applications that consolidate all forms of spatial data, integrate that information with business systems and distribute the derived intelligence to any user anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected.

	Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), based in Redlands , California is a leading GIS software provider in a multibillion-dollar industry that employs hundreds of thousands worldwide. ESRI has dedicated itself to providing superior products, outstanding client support, and contributing technical knowledge, people and expertise to the collection, analysis and communication of geographic information. "ESRI and the ESRI Logo are licensed trademarks of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc."

	ERDAS products and services are trusted by professionals worldwide to help them capture, analyze, and present spatial information. ERDAS is best known for its broad array of products that capture accurately, model quickly, analyze easily, and visualize and present spatial information even in 3D. Those who use ERDAS products every day trust them for their dependability, the value they deliver, and the superior customer support. In April 2008 Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging became ERDAS.

	Intergraph's Registered Research Laboratory (RRL) Program offers extensive development support to institutions of higher education and non-commercial research laboratories wanting to use Intergraph technology and products in applied research activities. The program, which has experienced tremendous success since its inception, is available worldwide for qualified institutions and provides students, educators, and researchers with the leading edge technology and support needed to design and execute innovative research projects. Details of current members can be found here.

	IONIC is committed to providing fully interoperable, enterprise-class products for the publishing, discovery, access, integration, and application of spatial data in support of core enterprise business functions. IONIC has a vision of a world driven by open standards based interoperability leading to significantly reduced total cost of ownership for spatially-enabled business solutions. IONIC's mission is to leverage its extensive experience to create and deliver the best standards-based commercial off the shelf (SCOTS) distributed interoperable java component products.

	Oracle Corportation (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's second largest software company and the leading supplier of software for enterprise information management. With annual revenues exceeding $8.0 billion, the company offers its database, tools and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.

	PCI Geomatics has been developing industry leading geospatial software since 1982 and has continuously been a tireless supporter for the advanced study of remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, GIS, cartography, and all earth sciences in academic institutions around the world.

	Safe Software Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is located in Surrey, B.C., just outside of Vancouver. Since incorporation, Safe Software has successfully executed a variety of projects pertaining to the translation, processing, modeling, and distribution of spatial data. Safe Software has worked with the ESRI Spatial Database Engine (SDE) since before it was an ESRI product, and has experience with many other spatial DBMS systems.

	Skyline Software Systems is a privately held company pursuing the realization of a "Digital Earth" that seeks to map our planet as never before. Founded in 1997, Skyline is re-inventing the term "interactive" as it relates to our planet. Drawing on their experience in software creation and sophisticated graphics systems, they’ve formed a unique collaboration with content partners to create an innovative web-based 3D visualization of the Earth.

	Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - The Network is The Computer - has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software, and services that make the Net work. In 2010, Sun has been acquired by Oracle.

	Trimble has been at the forefront of applying GPS to a wide variety of practical problems. To date, they've invested more than two million person-hours in R & D, perfecting the art and science of GPS. The company holds more U.S. patents on GPS and related technology than any other organization.

	Wingware sells a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically for the Python programming language. Wing IDE features powerful code intelligence, editing, refactoring, testing, debugging, searching, and version control capabilities for web, GUI, and script software development with Python. Wing IDE runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and works with Python 2.x and 3.x. It can be used with most Python frameworks, including Django, matplotlib, Zope, Plone, Google App Engine, PyQt, PySide, wxPython, PyGTK, Tkinter, mod_wsgi, pygame, Autodesk Maya, Blender, and many others. Since 1999, Wingware has focused on Python.

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