Partners and Affiliates

Our Partners

Galdos maintains strategic business partnerships with ESRI (as a complementary technology provider), Google Earth (as a Google Earth Enterprise Integrator partner), and with other partner organizations such as Envitia (where Galdos has been a sub-contractor on a number of strategic projects in the defence sector).

	Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google’s search service to make the world’s geographic information easily accessible and useful. There have been over 200 million unique downloads of Google Earth since the product’s launch in June, 2005.
	ESRI is a technology and market leader of developing GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. Its integrated products provide a standard platform for managing and analyzing geographic information. The company’s business involves the development and support of GIS software for all types of organizations—from the one-person office to multinational corporations to innovative Internet GIS solutions.
	Envitia defence software is employed worldwide to support critical control and decision making functions. A market leader in fields such as environmental analysis, dynamic data projection and data fusion, we are able to handle very large, disparate data sets with extreme precision and high performance. Our development skills encompass virtually every software language, operating platform and web based technology. Accredited to ISO9001:2000 with TickIT – our Quality Management System ensures that quality is built into everything we produce. Envitia was formerly TENET Technology Ltd.
	Blue Marble Geographics is a leading developer and provider of geographic software products that provide sensible solutions for users and developers of geographic data. Blue Marble has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over 15 years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.
	LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., was founded in 1992 to build valuable business solutions from technologies created by the world’s leading research organizations including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AT&T Labs. LizardTech is a leader in applying state-of-the-art technologies to the real-world challenges of managing, distributing, and accessing large complex digital content such as aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and color scanned documents.
	Atheeb Integraph is headquartered in Dubai, distributes and supports Intergraph products and provide ancillary system development, system and data integration.

Our Affiliates

Galdos is affiliated with a number of standards organizations and non-profit associations that support the development of standards and provide training to the community. Galdos has been closely involved in developing a number of standards, and serves on various technical committees to develop and approve new standards and versions of existing standards.

	The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 319 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
	OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
	The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) is a non-profit educational association serving the global geospatial community. GITA provides excellence in education, information exchange and applied research on the use and benefits of geospatial information and technology for worldwide infrastructure organizations. Learn more about GITA conferences and membership by visiting www.gita.org.