HJW IS AWARDED CITY OF VISALIA, CA ORTHOPHOTO PROJECT

Oakland, California, June 21, 2005 – HJW GeoSpatial (HJW), Inc., has been awarded a contract to produce color orthophotos for the City of Visalia, CA. The orthophotography will be used to replace the 2003 orthophotos used with the City’s GIS system.

HJW will acquire 109 square miles of color photography at a photo scale of 1:9996 (1”= 833’). The photography will be used to support update of the digital terrain model which is used for orthophoto production. HJW will scan the film at a resolution of 14 microns (1814 dpi), which will allow for production of orthophotos with 0.5’ pixel size. The orthophotos will then be manually seamed together and delivered in a section-based tiling system.

Prior to this project, HJW had supplied the City with the prior orthophotography in 2003, meeting the same requirements as the current project. In 1993, HJW was awarded a contract with the City of Visalia to provide planimetric and topographic mapping of the city at a map scale of 1”=100’. This data served as the base map for the City’s GIS.