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LAND INFO Corporate Profile: History and Growth

LAND INFO was founded in 1993 and quickly began breaking ground in an otherwise untapped map data marketplace. The company’s revolutionary “Topo on a floppy” product was the first low-cost, mass-market delivery of map sheets as high-quality, geo-referenced, color scans. LAND INFO made a revolutionary agreement with the United States Government in 1995 to color scan and geo-reference all 58,000+ USGS topographic maps, and in 1997 expanded into the international marketplace via an agreement with the Russian government to use Russian Military maps. Adding vector contour extraction and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), the company grew tremendously in the international market and built one of the world’s largest commercial archives of digital topographic map and nautical chart data.

In 2000 “The Mehta Group,” a privately-held multi-national, made a strategic investment in LAND INFO and enhanced the company’s offerings by establishing a long-term partnership with a complementary high-tech company located in the Science & Technology Park of Bangalore, India. In 2004 a controlling interest in the assets of LAND INFO was acquired by Nick Hubing, a twenty-six (26+) year veteran of the geo-technologies industry. Mr. Hubing led efforts to grow Land Info into aerial/satellite remote sensing and automated mapping using Object Based Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence.

The company couples a range of image processing services:

  • ortho-rectification
  • tonal balancing
  • mosaic output
  • cloud-patching
  • pan-sharpening
  • band manipulation
  • 16 to 8-bit scaling
  • atmospheric correction
  • wavelet compression
  • GPS Ground Control Point target location and accuracy assessment

…with value-added mapping services including:

  • 3D buildings and trees
  • 4D bridges
  • Land-Use/Cover
  • Roads, hydrology, impervious surface mapping and additional planimetric features
  • Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and Digital Terrain Models (DTMs)

LAND INFO is a Maxar (DigitalGlobe) Distribution Partner (one of very few companies with its history dating back to the inaugural class of Space Imaging re-sellers in 1998, prior to the launch of IKONOS at the advent of spaced-based commercial earth observation), AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE Image Partner, Planet Labs Direct Distributor, SIIS Authorized KOMPSAT Distributor, Authorized Intermap Data Distributor, Hexagon (Leica) Distribution Partner, USGS Business Partner, Esri Business Partner & USGIF Member.

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LAND INFO 30 Years

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The company continues to be run by Mr. Hubing, who acquired full ownership in 2021. Land Info leverages a team of highly trained and specialized employees, all of whom have prior professional experience in remote sensing, to build the highest-quality imagery/map geo-datasets.

The value LAND INFO brings to our customers is evidenced by our unrivaled growth streak; multiple times the company has achieved award recognition on the Inc. 5000, Denver Fast 50 and Financial Times Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies. Land Info projects have been featured in multiple publications, and the company is a two-time recipient of the Maxar (DigitalGlobe) Outstanding Achievement Award.

On behalf of LAND INFO, we look forward to meeting your imagery and map data needs.

Chris Lowe
Classification/Object Based Image Analysis, 25 years’ professional working experience.

David Steveley
Imagery, 24 years’ professional working experience.

Jeff Porter
Imagery, 19 years’ professional working experience.