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  Comments made by R2V users and leading trade journals

"R2V is a terrific program for mapping and GIS specialists, and would be if it cost twice as much. I like this program -- a lot." By David Byrnes, CADLYST contributing editor, CADLYST, Dec. 1999, pp. 55.

"The most GIS-friendly product, R2V supports and creates geo-referenced TIFF files with ARC/INFO world files. Direct export of geo-referenced vector files in GIS formats as well as the more usual AutoCAD DXF. Vectors match raster well. Attribute labeling is by line ID rather than CAD layer. Many contour lines can be labeled at once by drawing a line across them, then specifying start and the contour interval. Good polygon recognition. Little work needed on vectors brought into ARC/INFO. It has more image processing functionality than any other package." By Lee A. Graham, in Modern-Day Magic, GIS World, July 1997, page 33.

"R2V is the fastest and finest automatic map vectorization software ever", Mr. Paul Hastings, Director, Environment Information Center, Thailand Environment Institute.

"R2V is incredibly easy to work with, it vectorizes extremely quickly at extremely high quality", Prof. Larry Poos, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC.

"R2V does what it claims and more. Many users will find the package to be a useful addition to their mapping or GIS scheme.", GIS World, August, 1995

"Able Software's customer support is excellent.", Mr. Jim MacKay, Office of Surface Mining Management, US Government

"Excellent product! Just like other users, I was able to use it in less than 30 minutes. The editing capabilities are much better than other GIS softwares that I know of.", Dr. Madya Ruslan Rainis, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA

"R2V is the most advanced raster to vector conversion program." C. J. Liu, Laboratory of Geometronics, University of Kentucky.

"We are very happy with R2V and we have completely changed our digitizing methods from tablet to scanner and your software, with major productivity gains and high accuracy. Keep developing it!", Dr. Tom Dargie, Mapping Consultant, United Kingdom

"It's been great to work with R2V software. Able Software Corp.' after sales service is second to none. I can't think of another company that has answered every one of my e-mails with such efficiency." Mr. Trevor Glass, ISCOR Steel Co., South Africa

"You really have the very best customer service of any software developer I have EVER seen!", K. Brown, Utah Geological Survey

"Thank you for the quick response.  Not too many companies have the customer care that you guys have, you should pride yourselves in that." S.D. Turcott, PAGENET, Plano, Texas

A Partial User List

 
bullet A.A.N. (Spain)
bullet ABB Power Plant Lab. (CT, USA)
bullet Airbus
bullet ALPS Mapping Co. (JAPAN)
bullet Arcade Conseil (France)
bullet Argonne National Lab. (IL, USA)
bullet Arizona Geological Survey
bullet ARZ Company (Italy)
bullet Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand)
bullet ASI (IN)
bullet AD Design Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan)
bullet Agricultural Land Reform Office (Thailand)
bullet Agricultural Univ. of Norway
bullet Air Force (USA)
bullet Alabama State Univ. (AL, USA)
bullet Amerada Hess Corp. (TX, USA)
bullet AMOCO (TX, USA)
bullet Anglo Gold (NV, USA)
bullet Aquaterra n.v. (Belgium)
bullet ARCO International (TX, USA)
bullet ArrayComm (CA, USA)
bullet ArcGeo Information Systems (Slovakia Republic)
bullet Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (Greece)
bullet Arexs (Mexico)
bullet Army Corps of Enginners (USA)
bullet ASAA (Saudi Arabia)
bullet ASAP Software Express Inc. (USA)
bullet ASEAN Institute of Forest Management (Malaysia)
bullet ATS Inc.(TX, USA)
bullet Australian Army (Australia)
bullet B.D. Machine (PA, USA)
bullet Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China)
bullet Ben Nederland BV (Netherland)
bullet BFGOODRICH (USA)
bullet BidAmerica (CA, USA)
bullet BKS Survey Ltd. (UK)
bullet Borealis Forestry and GIS Services (Canada)
bullet Boston College, Dept. of Geology (USA)
bullet Bucknell Univ. (PA, USA)
bullet Bournemooth Univ. (UK)
bullet CAADG Architects and Planning s.r.c (Slovakia Republic)
bullet California State Univ. Northridge (USA)
bullet CANBRA Telefonica S.A. (Brazil)
bullet Cairo Univ. Geology Dept. (Egypt)
bullet CATIE (Guatemala)
bullet Carter & Burgess, Inc. (TX, USA)
bullet Cayuga Community College (NY, USA)
bullet Centro de Analises e Sistemas Navais (BRAZIL)
bullet Centro Ricerche Fiat (Italy)
bullet China Forestry Institute (Beijing, China)
bullet Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
bullet Chevron (TX, USA)
bullet Civil Engineering, Univ. of Florida (USA)
bullet City of Cookeville (TN, USA)
bullet Clyde Consultants (Malaysia)
bullet Center for Development of Advanced Computing (Pune, India)
bullet Center For Earth & Env. Science, SUNY (NY, USA)
bullet Central CT State Univ. (CT, USA)
bullet Census Mapping Project (NEPAL)
bullet City of Ripon (WI, USA)
bullet City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
bullet CNR-Geodinanmica Alpine E Quaternaria (Italy)
bullet College De France (France)
bullet Competitive Solutions Inc. (TX, USA)
bullet Conservation International (Washington DC, USA)
bullet Continental Hightech Services (France)
bullet Cornell University (NY, USA)
bullet ComputerLand of Wichita (WA,USA)
bullet ComputaMaps (South Africa)
bullet Condor Earth Tech. Inc. (CA, USA)
bullet Coastal Studies Institute (LA, USA)
bullet County of Ulster (NY, USA)
bullet Current Software AS (Norway)
bullet Cybersoft Inc. (CA, USA)
bullet Daimler-Benz Aerospace (GERMANY)
bullet Daisy´s REPRO (GERMANY)
bullet DEIAGR Univ. of Bologna (Italy)
bullet Dept. of Agriculture & Biosys., McGill Univ. (CANADA)
bullet Dept. of Envrionement Protection, Commonwelth of Pennsylvania (PA, USA)
bullet DEP, McMurray District Mining Office (PA, USA)
bullet Dept. Fish and Game, State of Alaska (USA)
bullet DIGEOS (CA, USA)
bullet DigiCart - Cartografia e Cons. Ltda (BRAZIL)
bullet Dinwiddie Assoc. (CA, USA)
bullet Department of Marine Resources, State of Maine (Maine, USA)
bullet The Department of Geography of Cambodia (Cambodia)
bullet Dukan Corp. (MA, USA)
bullet Duke Power Company (NC, USA)
bullet Earth Information Systems Corp. (TX, USA)
bullet Eastman Kodak Co. (NY, USA)
bullet Ecology Center (MT, USA)
bullet Ecomapa (Ecudor)
bullet Ecosystem Conservation Society (Japan)
bullet Edwards and Kelcey, Inc. (MA, USA)
bullet eFloodzone.com (GA, USA)
bullet EIASA, C.A. (Venezuela
bullet ERMAS Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
bullet ESRI India
bullet ESRI Thailand
bullet ESRI Slovakia
bullet Estonian Map Centre, Ltd. (ESTONIA)
bullet Explorer Pipeline (OK, USA)
bullet Falcon Consulting Services (USA)
bullet Falconbridge Exploration Zimbabwe
bullet Fay, Spofford & Thorndike (MA, USA)
bullet Forest Management Institute (Malaysia
bullet Forest Technology Group (SC, USA)
bullet G4C (Czech Republic)
bullet Garrad Hassan (UK)
bullet GAIA Consultants Inc. (Canada)
bullet GAT Bangkudulis Petroleum Co. (Indonesia)
bullet GEOIMAGE Pty Ltd. (Australia)
bullet Geomatics (Argentina)
bullet Geocadsys (Venezuela)
bullet Geoanalysis (Chile)
bullet GEOCONSEIL (Burkina Faso, West Africa)
bullet Geographic Solutions Inc. (VA, USA)
bullet Geografx (AZ, USA)
bullet Geosolutions (Malaysia)
bullet Geo. Info. Management System. (South Africa)
bullet GEOID OEG (Austria)
bullet GEOIMAGE Pty Ltd. (Australia)
bullet GeoIntelligence (Taiwan)
bullet Geological Survey of Sweden (Sweden)
bullet Geological Survey of Israel
bullet Geomax Information (CO, USA)
bullet GEOMED (Venezuela)
bullet Geoscape International (FL, USA)
bullet GeoSpatial Systems Pvt. Ltd. (NEPAL)
bullet Geotech Exploration Services, Inc (Calgary, Canada)
bullet GeoVista (Sweden)
bullet Georgetown Steel Corp. (USA)
bullet Gippsland Forest Management Services(VIC, Australia)
bullet GIS Center, Feng Chia University (Taiwan)
bullet GIS & Cons. Service (INDIA)
bullet Government of Canada, Parks Canada
bullet Government of GUYANA
bullet Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. (FL, USA)
bullet GTE Lab. (MA, USA)
bullet Hampton Data Services (United Kingdom)
bullet HI-TECH HOUSE (Syria)
bullet HNIT-BALTIC Geo. (Lithuania)
bullet Honngi Internatioal Ltd. (TAIWAN)
bullet Hopewell Culture Nationasl Historical Park (OH, USA)
bullet Hunter College, City University of New York (NYC, USA)
bullet I.C.D. (CA, USA)
bullet I-CUBED (CO, USA)
bullet Idho State Univ. (USA)
bullet IDDI (CA, USA)
bullet Illinois State Univ.
bullet Image Etc. (France)
bullet IMA/GEO (France)
bullet IMAGEM SENS. REMOTO (BRAZIL)
bullet Information OSG Inc (Quebec, CANADA)
bullet InfoGraph (Jordan)
bullet Instituto de Engenharia, de Sistemas e Computadores (Portugal)
bullet Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales Ecologi. (Venezula)
bullet Instituto Geologico (Brazil)
bullet INTEL (USA)
bullet International Paper Corp. (OR, USA)
bullet Intersurv, Inc. (TX, USA)
bullet ISA (FL, USA)
bullet Iscor Head Office (South Africa)
bullet Iscor, Geology Dept (South Africa)
bullet ISI Satallite Navigation (USA)
bullet ISLEM GIS Ltd. (TURKEY)
bullet Istituto Per Lo Studio Delle, Metodologie Geofisiche Ambientali (Italy)
bullet ITS Servicios Tecnicos (VENEZUELA)
bullet Iwahashi-shouten Co. Ltd. (Japan)
bullet Jackson County, Mississipi (USA)
bullet JS Knight (Singapore)
bullet JWAC (VA, USA)
bullet Kuwait University (Kuwait)
bullet Kozo Keikaku Enginerring Inc. (Japan)
bullet Kawasaki Geol. Eng. Co. Ltd (Japan)
bullet Keck & Wood, Inc. (GA, USA)
bullet Kutztown Univ. (PA, USA)
bullet LandVest (NH, USA)
bullet Loyola Enterprises Inc. (VA, USA)
bullet Landsoft (Malaysia)
bullet Lattice Research Corp. (Malaysia)
bullet Lynx Information Systems (TX, USA)
bullet Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd (Australia)
bullet Lee County (Fort Myers, FL, USA)
bullet Los Alamos National Lab. (NM, USA)
bullet Louisiana State Univ., Louisiana Geological Survey
bullet Mammoth Cave National Park (USA)
bullet Map Net Inc. (Tokyo, JAPAN)
bullet MapInfo (UK)
bullet Marin Environmental, Inc. (CT, USA)
bullet Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
bullet Mead Coated Board (AL, USA)
bullet Mega Commercial Warehouse (CA, USA)
bullet Metria (Sweden)
bullet Midacomp Corp. (FL, USA)
bullet Mineral Management Services, US Government
bullet Ministry of Northern Dev. and Mines (Canada)
bullet MIT (Massacusetts Institute of Technology)
bullet MIT Haystack Observatory (MA, USA)
bullet Moldova Ministry of Defense (Moldova)
bullet Monmouth Press (Main, USA)
bullet MOTORALA (IL, USA)
bullet Mount St. Mary's College (CA, USA)
bullet Mushkin Inc. (CO, USA)
bullet Mr. H. SUZUKI (NAGOYA, JAPAN)
bullet National Caving Assoc. (UK)
bullet National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan)
bullet National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA, USA)
bullet National Park Service (US Government)
bullet National Univ. of Guatemala
bullet Nuclear Mendoza S.E. (Argentina)
bullet Natural Resources (Ottawa, CANADA)
bullet Natural Resource Conservation Service (KS, USA)
bullet Naval Oceanographic Office (CA, USA)
bullet New Mexico University (NM, USA)
bullet New York Univ., Medical Center (NY, USA)
bullet NITT GIS Ltd. (India)
bullet North Carelia Polytechnic (FINLAND)
bullet NOAA (USA)
bullet Northern Middlesex Council of Government (MA, USA)
bullet North Carelia Polytechnic (FINLAND)
bullet Univ. of Southhampton (UK)
bullet NorthShore-Long Island Jewish Univ. Hospital (NY, USA)
bullet Northwoods Software Development Inc (WI, USA)
bullet Norges Geologiske Undersoekelse (Norway)
bullet Norwegian People's Aid
bullet Ocean Technologies (MS, USA)
bullet Org. for Security and Co-op in Europe, Mission to Bosnia
bullet Office of Surface Mining (US Government, KY, PA, OH, IL)
bullet Oklahoma State University (OK, USA)
bullet Pacific Computers (FL)
bullet Pacific Map S.A. (Colombia)
bullet PAGENET (USA)
bullet PA Bureau of Mining and Reclamation (PA, USA)
bullet Parsons Transportation Group (NY, USA)
bullet PASCO Automated Mapping Technology (Tokyo, Japan)
bullet PASCO International (Tokyo, JAPAN)
bullet Paradigm Techology (Ireland)
bullet Paradigm IT Pri. Ltd. (India)
bullet Pasific Consultants International (Japan)
bullet PCI Enterprises (Canada)
bullet PCI Services (MA, USA)
bullet PERWIT International (Canada)
bullet Petroscan A.B. (Sweden)
bullet Philippine-German Tech. Coop. Prog. (Philippine)
bullet Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (MA, USA)
bullet Planson Int'l Corp. (ME, USA)
bullet Priest, Craven & Assoc. (NC, USA))
bullet Poseidon Geophysics (Pty) Ltd. (Botswana)
bullet Posford Duvivier Ltd. (UK)
bullet Princeton University (NJ, USA)
bullet PROYECTO CATIE/CONAP (Guatemala)
bullet PT. ENDAPROSINDO (Indonesia)
bullet Pollution Control Department (Thailand)
bullet Pond & Co. (GA, USA)
bullet processremote.com (The Netherlands)
bullet Radford Univ. (VA, USA)
bullet RIO TINTO (Chile)
bullet QBS Software Ltd. (UK)
bullet QGIS (PTY) LTD. (NAMIBIA)
bullet Quality Standards (Egypt)
bullet Realworld Data, LLC (VA, USA)
bullet RockWare, Inc. (CO, USA)
bullet SamSung Office Computer Inc. (Korea)
bullet San Francisco State Univ. (CA, USA)
bullet San Juan, Puerto Rico
bullet Satellus AB (Sweden)
bullet SEAMIC (Tanzania)
bullet SERCOFITEC SRL (PERU)
bullet Seton Company (PA, USA)
bullet SITA (Societe Internationale De Telecommunications Aeronautiques, United Kingdom)
bullet S K Design (KS, USA)
bullet Slovenian Forestry Institute (Slovenia)
bullet Space Imaging (CO, USA)
bullet Sonartech Atlas Pty Ltd (Australia)
bullet Software Factory International (Troy, NY, USA)
bullet Southwest Texas State Univ. (Texas, USA)
bullet Spatial Information Services Pty Ltd. (Australia)
bullet SPOT Image Corp. (VA, USA)
bullet State of Hawaii, Dept. of Trans.(USA)
bullet State of Alaska (USA)
bullet Stetson Engineers Inc. (CA, USA)
bullet Stevenson Engineering Ltd. (Canada)
bullet STN ATLAS Marine Electronics (GERMANY)
bullet Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)
bullet Stone Webster Enginerring Corp. (Boston, USA)
bullet Studio d'ingegneria (Switzerland)
bullet Sugnet & Assoc. (CO, USA)
bullet SUNY-ESF (State University of New York, USA)
bullet SUNY at Cortland (NY, USA)
bullet Super Full Tech. Co. Ltd. (Beijing/Hongkong, China)
bullet Survey of Israel (ISRAEL)
bullet Survair Int'l Ltd. West Indies
bullet Synergist Technology Group Inc. (PA, USA)
bullet Synmap International Chile, S.A. (CHILE)
bullet Techni Graphics Systems, Inc. (CO, USA)
bullet Sistemas De Informacion Geografica S.A. (Mexico)
bullet Telinstrument Co. (Hong Kong)
bullet TerraNOVA International (CA, USA)
bullet Technology Planning and Management Corp (TPMC)
bullet Texas Parks and Wildlife (Austin, Texas, USA)
bullet Texas Tech Univ. (TX, USA)
bullet Texaco Ltd. (UK)
bullet Thailand Department of Mineral Resources (Thailand)
bullet Thailand Environment Institute (Thailand)
bullet The Cadmus Group, Inc. (MA, USA)
bullet The Catholic University of America (Washington DC, USA)
bullet The Institute di Chimica Agraria (Bologna, Italy)
bullet The Mohegan Tribe (CT, USA)
bullet The National Meseum of Denmark
bullet The Nature Conservancy (VA, USA)
bullet The Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology (Norway)
bullet The Penn State Univ. (PA, USA)
bullet The University of Auckland (New Zealand)
bullet The Univ. of Arizona (USA)
bullet The Univ. of Akron (OH, USA)
bullet The Univ. of Georgia (GA, USA)
bullet The Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
bullet Think Earth Science Ltd. (Japan)
bullet Tim Tyler Surveying Inc. (AR, USA)
bullet Total Information Solutions, Ltd (Cairo, Egypt)
bullet Tractebel Energy Engineering (Belgium)
bullet Trans Pacific Network Co. Ltd (Japan)
bullet Traverse Land Info Systems (USA)
bullet Tracasa (Spain)
bullet TriPoint Global Communications (USA)
bullet Tufts Univ. (MA, USA)
bullet Tu Yuan Spatial Data Technology (Beijing, China)
bullet Turkey Prime Ministery (Ankara, Turkey)
bullet Volcanex International Pty Ltd (Australia)
bullet United States Geological Servey (Denver, US Government)
bullet United States Geological Survey (Purto Rico, US)
bullet United Nation, Cambodia Mine Action Center (Cambodia, South East Asia)
bullet Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark (DENMARK)
bullet Univ. Autonoma, Mexico
bullet Univ. of Bergen, Dept. of Geography (Norway)
bullet Univ. of California at Berkeley (USA)
bullet Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon
bullet Univ. of Chihuahua ( Mexico)
bullet Univ. of Chicago (USA)
bullet Univ. DEGLI STUDI UDINE (ITALY)
bullet Univ. of Georgia (GA, USA)
bullet The Univ. of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Lab.
bullet Univ. of N. Iowa, Environ. Programs
bullet University of Kentucky, Forestry (Lexington, KY, USA)
bullet Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research (KY, USA)
bullet Univ. of Mass., Boston (MA, USA)
bullet UMass, Amherst (MA, USA)
bullet University Malaysia Sarawak (MALAYSIA)
bullet Univ. of Miami (FL, USA)
bullet Univ. of Minnesota (MN, USA)
bullet Univ. of NC at Wilmington (USA)
bullet Univ. of Nottingham (UK)
bullet Univ. di Pisa (Italy)
bullet Univ. of Puerto Rico
bullet University of Roorkee (Roorkee, India)
bullet Univ. Waterloo (CANADA)
bullet Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia (CROATIA)
bullet Universal Solutions, Inc. (MI, USA)
bullet Universal Systems Inc (VA, USA)
bullet Universal GeoSystems (CANADA)
bullet Univ. of Nottingham (UK)
bullet Univ. Sains Malaysia (MALAYSIA)
bullet The University of the West Indies
bullet Uppsala Univ. Dept of Archaeology (Sweden)
bullet U.S. Army Engineer District (Japan)
bullet US ARMY 
bullet US ARMY Foreign Millitary Studies Office
bullet US Air Force (VA, USA)
bullet US Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Cons. Service
bullet USDA Forest Service/IITF
bullet USGS, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
bullet USGS (Reston, VA)
bullet USGS Regional Offices (US)
bullet US Geological Survey EROS Data Center (US)
bullet Utah Geological Survey (USA)
bullet Viento y Energia, S.L. (Spain)
bullet Vizrt (Norway)
bullet Walsh Peru, S.A.(Peru)
bullet Washington and Lee Univ. (USA)
bullet West Chester Univ. of Penn. (PA, USA)
bullet West Michigan Unv. (USA)
bullet West Virginia Geological Survey (West Virginia, USA)
bullet West Virginia Univ. (USA)
bullet Williams College (MA, USA)
bullet WJF Geological Consulting (Guyana)
bullet WMC Resources Ltd. (CO, USA)
bullet Worcester State College (MA, USA)
bullet Woods and Associates, Inc. (TN, USA)
bullet Woods Hole Research Center (MA, USA)
bullet Worldwide Inc. (TX, USA)
bullet World Wide Tech. Inc. (USA)
bullet Worldwide Notification Systems Inc. (Atlanta, GA, USA)
bullet World Wildlife Fund (India)
bullet WTH Engineering

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R2V Automates Mapping For Mine Clearance Mission in Cambodia

 Able Software's R2V for Windows is currently being used by the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) to create GIS databases and rebuild automated map printing capability for land mine and unexploded ordnance clearance programs in Cambodia. The CMAC is the national organization responsible for coordination of landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance programs in Cambodia. All database input, output, and management are conducted entirely by this organization.

 In January 1996, PBS screened a documentary on NOVA which dealt with land mines in Cambodia, and in which CMAC's mined area information system was demonstrated. Cambodia does not have the human or material resources to generate and print maps. Most of Cambodia's skilled topographic mapmakers were killed or fled during the long conflict. Hence, the labor-saving aspect of using computers to create maps is important here.

 CMAC and the Geographic Department of the Council of Ministers (Royal Cambodian Government) are attempting to use R2V for Windows to leap directly into the computer mapping era, by creating digital map data from 1971 USDMA (United States Defense Mapping Agency) topographic maps (1:50,000 scale). Current efforts are underway to raster-scan and convert to vectors the elevation contours, hydrographic features, and transportation infrastructure.

 CMAC is raster scanning the separates at 400 dpi using a CONTEX FS-8000 large format scanner (B/W). Raster to Vector conversion is performed using the R2V software. The unedited vectors are saved to CD-ROM and provided to the Geographic Department of the Council of Ministers who are responsible for editing (cleaning up) the vectors and assigning relevant labels using R2V.  The Geographic Department has recently purchased one copy of R2V for Windows and one set of PC ArcINFO. At the present time, the joint project is concentrating on elevation contours, hydrographic features, and transportation routes. Once scanned, converted, and edited, the map data will be used by the Geographic Department to layout map separates for use in printing. In this manner, the Department will gradually obtain both the data and the skills necessary to use digital data for map printing and distribution to support GIS activities. Meanwhile, CMAC benefits from access to cleaned and labeled digital map data.

 Mr. Michael Sheinkman, Technical Advisor of CMAC, states, "I provide training and advice to enable the CMAC Database Unit staff to scan and convert the data to ArcINFO format coverages. I am very pleasantly surprised by how fast and easy R2V for Windows is to use. R2V's Line Editor package is easy to use to clean up the vectors. CMAC had purchased another software package from a different vendor in1993, but was not satisfied with the results. We are highly satisfied with R2V. It does what it claims to be able to do. With a Pentium 75 processor and 32-MB RAM, conversion of an 8-MB image takes only a few minutes."

 Able Software's R2V for Windows software is a fully automated, raster-to-vector conversion system with functions for both vector data and raster image editing. It is designed for production type map digitizing. A large number of scanned maps can be converted automatically with a single command. According to Dr. Yecheng Wu, president and founder of Able Software, "We have been working closely with the users of R2V since the start to make the software easy to use and effective to convert from all raster image sources, including scanned maps, aerial photos, and satellite imagery at a high accuracy level."

 

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 World Wild Life Fund Chooses R2V for Automated Map Digitizing

 

Researchers at the World Wild Life Fund in India (WWF-India) are expanding their uses of automated raster to vector conversion software to create a large scale spatial database for their biodiversity conservation programs in India. They are using Able Software's R2V for Windows to digitize more than 600 scanned vegetation cover maps on a 1:250000 scale for the entire country.

 WWF national offices, is a not-for-profit organization, and is recognized by the government as a research body. The WWF-India's work focuses on nature conservation in the country, and the recently established Indira Gandhi Conservation Monitoring Centre (IGCMC).  The WWF-India is gearing up to provide database support for biodiversity conservation programs in India.

"We have had the occasion to use the evaluation version of R2V before we made the purchase decision, and find it to be very useful," says Dr. Ivan Robson of WWF-India, "we are now ready to apply this technology to speed up our data conversion process."

R2V is an automated raster to vector conversion software developed for GIS and mapping applications. It automatically extracts vector data from scanned maps, aerial photos, and satellite imagery using intelligent vectorization technology. The software supports bi-level, grayscale, and color images in TIFF and SPOT satellite image formats and exports vector data to ArcInfo, ArcView, MapInfo, and DXF vector file formats. In addition, R2V also provides functions for semi-automatic line tracing and manual heads-up digitizing. Digitized maps can easily be registered to a real world coordinate system using a set of user selected control points.

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