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The software has been developed to allow our clients to explore, analyze, manipulate and gain knowledge from their data by representing very large complex information in the best possible way - in an intuitive fashion - in the way that we perceive the real world everyday. This virtual reality allows new insight to be rapidly gained and more information to be extracted from the underlying data. This results in Fledermaus providing our clients with added value in efficiency, accuracy, completeness, integration, and communication. For more information on Fledermaus, visit our Products page.

IVS has a dynamic and creative team of professionals that are committed to advancing visualization technology. In addition, we listen intently to what's on our customer's minds. Hearing keeps us in vital touch with a marketplace, an economy and a global society experiencing constant change. Our team is dedicated to unveiling opportunities to develop and improve visualization and interpretation software in ways that will provide our clients with first-rate software tools to ensure success of their business or research endeavours.

IVS is headquartered in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and provides full support worldwide from this location in association with a number of alliance partners.

History

IVS was founded in 1995 to provide interactive 3D visualization and analysis software and services for the ocean mapping industry. The primary product is the Fledermaus software suite, an interactive 3D visualization and analysis software that originated from research at the Ocean Mapping Group (OMG) at the University of New Brunswick.

IVS benefited from the association with the world-leading OMG in shaping the early development of the software from a very powerful visualization application to a fully featured analysis and processing suite of software.

Since the company's inception in 1995, the Fledermaus software has established itself as the industry leading software for 3D visualization of marine information and associated attributes, specializing in extremely large data sets. The software has been used extensively across the ocean industry in geological surveys, hydrographic surveys, mine clearance and beach landing surveys; and a variety of geo-hazard surveys in support of offshore engineering projects worldwide.

2001 marked a significant year for IVS when the Fledermaus software was used on projects in the waters of every continent. The software now sets the standard in interactive 3D visualization for the ocean mapping industry in all sectors - nautical charting, marine geological survey and geo-hazard surveys in the offshore oil and gas industry.

Research

The background of the founders of IVS set a strong focus on continued research and development to ensure the company and products stay at the leading edge of 3D visualization technology. This commitment is totally client focused to ensure R&D provides our clients with leading edge technology that meets their requirements to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Visit our Papers page for a sample of the research performed at IVS.

IVS maintains a close relationship with the Ocean Mapping Group at UNB and the main office remains in the Enterprise Center on the UNB campus. The company is also associated with the recently established Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping (CCOM) that was established at the University of New Hampshire. CCOM has rapidly established itself as a leading research institute in the development of new technologies and new uses for ocean mapping.

IVS is in the fourth year of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Naval Oceanographic Office to jointly develop oceanographic post-survey processing capabilities for the Navy and private industry. In May 2004 the outstanding success of this CRADA was recognized with an Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC). This award honored those who had made a significant contribution to technology transfer IVS and the Naval Oceanographic Office were recognized as having made outstanding accomplishments in advancing technology from the laboratory to the marketplace. The work under the CRADA has contributed to some significant results for the Naval Oceanographic Office, including a 50% increase in quality of survey deliverables, a tenfold increase in throughput for data validation supporting Naval operations in the labor-intensive editing process and the elimination of a two year data validation backlog.

Organization

IVS is a growing company with four principle shareholders. Lindsay Gee is responsible for overall business management of IVS, and Mark Paton is the Technical Director. Larry Mayer and Colin Ware are non-executive directors and provide support and input, particularly in the overall technical development.

Lindsay has worked in various sectors of the ocean mapping sector for over 25 years and during the last 10 years in system and business development.

Mark Paton is responsible for the overall product design and development. The core of the Fledermaus software originated in Mark's graduate studies at UNB and he has continued to lead the development since IVS was established.

Larry Mayer and Colin Ware are both Professors at the Center for Coast and Ocean Mapping at UNH, and were previously at the Ocean Mapping Group at UNB. Both are non-executive directors and although not involved in daily operations provide significant input to IVS for the product and market development. Larry is the Director of CCOM and a world leader in ocean mapping having an outstanding knowledge of activity, technology and development across all sectors of the industry. Colin is the Director of the Data Visualization Research Laboratory at CCOM and a respected expert in human computer interaction and data visualization research and development.

Contact

To contact IVS, please see our Contact page.