About MapSAT

MapSAT, a member of Mississippi's geospatial technology industry cluster for the past seven years, provides innovative solutions using remote sensing and GIS technologies for the public and private sectors. MapSAT offers economic solutions to their clients by developing innovative, multi-user applications including a full suite of GIS services for cities, counties, and other agencies. Services include property mapping, 911 addressing, emergency response, homeland security, Internet map applications, school bus routing, flood map automation, land use, zoning, redistricting, utility mapping, best site selection, insurance and real estate applications, medical and health applications, and GIS training.

MapSAT's local government applications are geared toward multi-user/multi-functional capabilities with the added benefit of meeting homeland security needs; local governments that are responsible for creating detailed data at the grassroots property level can benefit from the integration of other data. Different divisions within a local government often require same base data for varied applications. But each division usually operates independently. Bringing the divisions together for developing common data not only makes the data development economical, but also makes the data updates easier and provides more efficient data analysis capabilities. For instance, an addressing application that is developed for the e-911 division to identify a caller's location, closest fire station/ambulance, and shortest route with a hot link to the photo of the caller's structure is the same data . streets and addresses . that are used in developing applications for other divisions. Circuit clerks can use the data to identify voters by precinct, supervisor/justice court/school/senate/house district. Additionally, street data is used in mapping gravel and paved roads maintained by the Board of Supervisors. Inventory of bridges with attribute information is added to the streets. The same street and address data are also used in delineating school bus routing for children for in a specific school district. MapSAT has developed fast and accurate algorithms to convert hard copy tax parcel maps to create seamless vector layers that accurately match with digital orthophotography.

MapSAT is also developing address data applications that can be used in economic planning to identify best locations for new real estate developments.

Another key focus area for MapSAT is training. Over 200 Mississippi university and college educators have been trained by MapSAT in the use of geospatial technology.

Additionally, MapSAT has worked on several research projects including a NASA-funded research project with Mississippi State University that consisted of a cotton yield study using multispectral satellite imagery. Another project entailed image analysis of hyperspectral data and vectrorization techniques that are used in entomological studies with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

One of MapSAT's current projects is the developments of a mapserver application to interactively query and display maps and data base (www.mapsat.com/mapserver). For additional information about MapSAT, contact Dr. David Bandi, bandi@mapsat.com, 662-648-9115.