○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Corporations DEPARTMENT Kucera International, Inc. to become one of the country’s largest full-service mapping 38133 Western Parkway firms. Headquartered in Ebensburg, PA, the Mapping Sci- Willoughby, OH 44094-5789 ences Division is staffed with 100 highly skilled professionals 216-975-4230; 216-975-4238 (fax) providing the following services: l Aerial Photography - We maintain two aircraft and two Kucera International Inc. is a professional corporation that aerial cameras for photography acquisition. Aircraft performs photogrammetric, surveying, engineering, cadastral, and cameras are operated by our own highly experi- and computer services for GIS, facility management, and re- enced crews. lated programs. l Surveying - We have adapted state-of-the-art technolo- Kucera’s capabilities and experience span all stages and gies such as GPS, electronic total stations and electronic elements of mapping program evolution. For program start-up field books. Our services range from property boundary and management, Kucera provides consulting, feasibility surveys to horizontal and vertical control/airborne GPS. studies, specifications, system recommendations, and pilot l Photo Lab - We maintain a full-service photographic projects. For program development, Kucera performs hard- laboratory that performs film developing, contact and ware/software acquisition, GIS data conversion, and data diapositive printing, enlargements and photo mosaics. collection/generation in the form of aerial photography, GPS l Analytical Triangulation - Services offered range from surveys, digital photogrammetric base mapping, cadastral producing control photos and diapositives to final ad- mapping, and image processing. Database maintenance, sys- justment and preparation of the A.T. report. tem upgrades, update mapping, data integration, data analy- l Photogrammetric Stereo Compilation - We currently use sis, application programming, and GIS training are provided analytical and softcopy stereoplotters for the collection as Kucera’s program implementation and support functions. of topographic and planimetric data. Our staff of 100 includes professionals and experts in all l GIS conversion - Our application development special- our areas of specialization. A team of Kucera professionals ists and technicians use ARC/INFO and ArcView exten- provides comprehensive, “total quality” management of each sively to develop solutions for our clients. project from start to finish, with emphasis on close communi- l Cadastral Mapping - Kimball has extensive experience in cation/consultation with the client at all times, sound project cadastral map conversion including scanning and planning and execution, rigorous quality control, timely vectorizing, digitizing and compiling parcels based on completion, and overall cost effectiveness. the original deeds and plats. We complement our expert staff with proven, high-caliber l Orthophoto Production - Digital orthophotos are fully technology, including Cessna and Piper aircraft, Kodak pho- produced in-house including scanning of diapositives or tographic equipment, Trimble GPS, Zeiss photogrammetric aerial film. instrumentation, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, and l E9-1-1/Public Safety - Kimball offers extensive experi- Gateway computers, and GIS/CAD from ESRI, Genasys, ence in all facets of public safety technology and is ca- Intergraph, Autodesk, Vision International, and a variety of pable of providing our clients with expertise in emer- other application-specific vendors. gency communication system planning, implementation At Kucera, we believe that professional, high-quality ser- and operation. vice can be delivered for a reasonable cost, and we back up Each project, regardless of complexity, is managed by one this belief with some of the most competitive pricing in our project manager. This approach provides a single point of business. For large and small projects alike, ranging from contact for our clients and enables us to build relationships turnkey to single phase in nature, we utilize our expertise that can ensure a project’s success. Kimball also offers qual- and technology to its full potential, yielding performance ity, professional architectural, engineering and environmen- which is economical as well as professional. tal services. Kucera is headquartered in Cleveland, OH, and has pro- duction offices throughout the U.S. Kucera is a corporate member of ASPRS and URISA. LaFave, White & McGivern, L.S., P.C. 133 Commercial Street L. Robert Kimball & Associates, Inc. PO Box 679 Theresa, NY 13691-0679 615 W. Highland Avenue 315-628-4414 or 800-427-9036; 315-628-4529 (fax) Ebensburg, PA 15931 [email protected] 814-472-7700; 814-472-7712 (fax) [email protected] ; www.lrkimball.com LaFave, White & McGivern is a professional land surveying and photogrammetric mapping partnership formed in 1968 L. Robert Kimball and from the practice of Aziel LaFave Land Surveyor, founded in Associates, Inc. 1946. In addition to the headquarters in Theresa, the firm has (Kimball) was founded two offices serving the surveying needs of New York and in 1953, and has grown other northeastern states: Rome, NY; and Boonville, NY. 482 April 2000 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ DEPARTMENT Corporations LaFave, White & McGivern is one of the oldest and largest l Applications Development for municipal and regional firms of it’s type in upper New York. With a staff of licensed planning, property inventory and appraisal, land records professional surveyors and certified photogrammetrists, the management, land registration, facilities management, firm provides photogrammetric, cadastral, geo- detic, topo- and emergency dispatch services graphic and engineering design surveys. Our complete photo- l Training in the use of GIS software and applications grammetric mapping capabilities from ground control LGS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Title Com- through aerial triangulation and digital mapping can also pany and a member of Landata Group, Inc. Landata Group of- produce digital orthophotographs from the same aerial pho- fers a comprehensive expertise in land records management tography. Digital orthophotographs are produced with the and information systems. Landata Group has offices world- Zeiss Phodis OP digital orthophoto system and can be pro- wide including Stewart Information Hungary Ltd. in vided in file formats for most CAD and GIS systems. Budapest and Stewart Data Slovakia in Bratislava. Other Survey instrumentation includes the latest state-of-the-art members of the Landata Group include Landata Field Ser- electronic Total Station Instruments with data collectors. For vices (land surveying companies), Landata Inc. (a real estate/ maximum speed and efficiency in performing field surveys, GIS company) and Landata Technologies (a document imag- reducing notes and plotting survey maps, the offices have ing and records management company). field-to-finish survey software systems. The data collectors download directly into these systems, the data is reduced and the survey map is plotted. This approach reduces the Landcare Aviation, Inc. manpower and time requirement for completion of projects. Oneida County Airport The most recent addition to survey is G.P.S. capability with 5900 Airport Road Leica 399 & 9500 units. Oriskany, NY 13424 315-736-4225; 315-736-4227 (fax); www.landvue.com Landata Geo Services, Inc. Landcare Aviation, Inc. (LAI) of- 5411 Jackwood Drive fers fast response, high resolution, San Antonio, TX 78238-1809 aerial digital imaging services. We 210-684-2147; 210-684-3884 (fax) operate 12 GPS-ACCUPHOTO [email protected] ; www.landata.com equipped aircraft nationwide com- bined with sophisticated technology. Landata Geo Services, Inc. (LGS) is Color/CIR images are provided an industry leader in the develop- quickly with required resolution ment of Geographic Information Sys- tem (GIS) database products and ap- (standard resolution: 6 inch to 2 foot with custom acquisition plications. During its forty years of to 2 inches.) LAI collects and provides in-flight geo-refer- continual operation, LGS has con- enced imagery compatible with GISs. Clients include emer- stantly upgraded its resources and ca- gency planners, forestry, utilities, rail- road, agriculture, and pabilities to competitively offer one- environmental. stop, full-service digital mapping and GIS solutions for Al Stringham, Bill Partridge, and Ed Bohling founded private and governmental agencies. LGS’s expertise includes: Landcare Aviation, Inc. “Starting with a rented Cessna 172, we focused on using 35mm/70mm cameras to collect high l On-site Needs Assessment and Implementation Plans for government and utility agencies developed specifically to quality imagery.” Faced with finding and photographing fit our client’s individual and specialized requirements large areas and remote sites, LAI developed the LORAN l Surveys utilizing GPS and conventional survey tech- based laptop ACCUPHOTO System. Mission planning was niques CADD based. The camera fired on pre-programmed points l Aerial Photography in black and white, color, and infra- and exposure position recorded in-flight. LAI licensed the red using WILD RC30 cameras with image motion com- technology to Genisys Comm Inc. who further developed pensation GPS-ACCUPHOTO with numerous enhancements. Aerial im- l Photogrammetric Mapping using Leica SD2000 Analyti- aging firms worldwide use GPS-ACCUPHOTO systems. cal Stereoplotters During 1990, LAI saw the