Norcross, GA - Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the opening of Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging India Private Limited, with its headquarters in Gurgaon (New Delhi), India.

As a privileged participant in the successful development of the geospatial community in India, Leica Geosystems further demonstrates its commitment by opening this headquarters. With a long-term perspective, Leica Geosystems expanded presence in India strengthens its technical support and application services for customers in India.

Initially employing staff in New Dehli, Hyderabad, Calcutta and Dehradun with a broad range of geospatial expertise, Leica Geosystems India will deploy technical support, business development, marketing, software development and professional services throughout the region. Leica Geosystems India will also build customized and localized geospatial solutions, meeting the needs of this rapidly expanding market.

“Leica Geosystems India brings the industry’s most complete and powerful collection of remote sensing, photogrammetry, enterprise, data sharing and visualization solutions to this part of the world, with added services and localized implementations,” said Kaushik Chakraborty, Vice President India, Middle East, and Africa, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. “Our expanded presence in India enables us to meet and anticipate the unique needs for both our new and existing customers.”

Leica Geosystems’ strong customer base in India’s defense and security, base mapping, natural resource mapping, agriculture, urban planning, environmental and forestry industries will be further strengthened by the extensive services and expanded product offering Leica Geosystems India will provide. Leica Geosystems India will be the only company in India to sell and support Leica Geosystems’ product portfolio in its entirety, including the products recently acquired from Acquis, ER Mapper and IONIC and those combining technologies implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Additionally, Leica Geosystems India’s presence will further equip key partners, while also increasing the country’s overall reseller network.

“Our recent acquisitions equip Leica Geosystems India with the most advanced, comprehensive and dynamic geospatial solutions, enhanced with enterprise spatial data management, multi-tier editing via web-based, mobile and desktop clients and additional image compression and delivery capabilities,” said Bob Morris, President & CEO, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. “These acquisitions increase our existing expertise as the leaders in geospatial imaging and secure our position to be the leading geospatial information provider for India.”

For more information about Leica Geosystems, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.gi.leica-geosystems.com.

About Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging

To be successful in our changing marketplace, you need reliable, enterprise-enabled geospatial information. Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging transforms your raw data to useable information, integrating a broad range of geospatial technology throughout your enterprise, via web-based, mobile and desktop clients. Delivering the most comprehensive solutions in image exploitation, processing, visualization and data management, Leica Geosystems provides robust image compression techniques and the most efficient delivery of imagery over the Internet or within an organization. With Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) interoperability, Leica Geosystems develops solutions with the most advanced service-oriented platform available.

Those who use Leica Geosystems products trust them for their precision, seamless integration, interoperability and superior customer support. Geospatial solutions from Leica Geosystems - when it has to be right.

Leica Geosystems is part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. For more information about Leica Geosystems or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.gi.leica-geosystems.com.