History

Fototerra was founded in 1993 and acquired by the Group Digimapas in 2001 with the purpose to introduce new technologies in the area of aerial photography. The technological cooperation’s with international entities resulted in 2004 with the big highlight to be to first company operating a big format digital camera in Latin America. In the following year were flown approximately 6000 km2 of the principal Brazilian capitals, resulting in the generation of products in the scale 1:2000.

In the same year(2005) the Digimapas group started its operations in Chile, using simultaneously two medium format cameras in combination with a high resolution laser mapping system designed for forest monitoring and management systems.

MileStones

1993 – Company Foundation

1993 – Generation of the Digital Map Data Base of Brazil.

1995 – Start of Flight Operations with analogical camera.

1996 – GIS – Implementation

2000 – Airborne SAR (X/P-band) + IMU.

2004 – First company in Latin America operating with Digital Photogrammetric Cameras + IMU

2006 – Integrated System RGB e IR + LiDAR

2007 – Airfilm in Helicopter operations

2008 – Begin of operations for Positioning Off-shore.

2009 – Airborne Hyprespectral System (357 bands)

2010 – UAV & AUV – On-Shore & Off-shore

2011 – New generation of digital photogrammetric cameras and wave form LidAR

2013 – Off shore Monitoring

2014 -3D interactive table

2015 –Start Poseidon program

2016 –Poseidon operational

The company’s expressive presence on the market since 1993 is marked by the overall disposition of innovations with the objective to offer integrated solutions using the newest technologies, information transfer, partnerships, training, research and permanent specialization of the staff.