Don't forget to check out our AFE Analyst of the Year video on YouTube and enter your project in our annual Automated Feature Extraction Analyst of the Year contest. Formatting requirements can be found on our website. Papers less than 10MB can be sent to sales@vls-inc.com. If you have larger submissions or would like more information, please contact us, and we will be happy to assist you.

During GIS Day 2008, the Montana division of Overwatch Geospatial worked with spectrUM Discovery Area to teach kids about GIS and weather. The celebration included a grant award presentation that gave SpectrUM a chance to start GirlTech, a science education program aimed at getting and keeping girls involved in the sciences.

Last month, Overwatch sent a representative to share her career experiences in the high-tech field of GIS software development. During the visit, the group learned about GIS and Overwatch's role in it as a software development company.

GirlTech "has been a huge success and wildly popular," says Holly Truitt, co-director of spectrUM. The program is offered through spectrUM in partnership with the Flagship Program of Missoula, MT.

We have updated our LIDAR Analyst landing page, adding to it several specific extraction scenarios:

• 3D Rooftop Modeling
• Advanced 3D Editing Tools
• Tree Forest/Canopy Extractions
• Contour Extraction

Find out how you can get more from your software by visiting these newly designed pages.

Overwatch Geospatial is a world-wide leader in geospatial technology and constantly pursues research and development contract opportunities with government and industry partners. As a result we are looking for partners working in the fields of remote sensing, data mining, terrestrial LIDAR, vegetation mapping, hyperspectral mapping, urban GIS and many other fields to share their application stories with us. Please take a moment to tell us what you are doing with our products and your current research interests in geospatial technology.