The deadline of July 31 is approaching fast! There are just a few days left to submit your AFE Analyst of the Year project. 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.

The 2009 ESRI User Conference brought together more than 12,000 GIS professionals from around the world in San Diego July 13-17, 2009. Those who visited the Overwatch booth were able to view demonstrations of the new RVConnect, as well as Feature Analyst, LIDAR Analyst and Urban Analyst. For those who would like more information on any products at the show, there are several options: our YouTube page features demos of the entire Analyst suite; tutorials can be downloaded from our Web site; and information regarding the new RemoteView release, including RVConnect, can be found here.

July marks one year since Overwatch began sending out monthly newsletters. Please take a moment to fill out our quick survey (only four questions) so we can continue to bring you the best information possible. Let us know if you are happy with the news we give you or if there is something else you would like us to add to our newsletters.

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 users who would like 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.

Click on the users below to see how they use Feature Analyst:

• United States Military Academy
• Brigham Young University
• Nathan Jennings, American River College