Itres Research Limited
Calgary, AB
Company Overview
ITRES Research Limited is a private Canadian corporation headquartered in Calgary, Alberta which has provided high-quality electro-optical instruments for the scientific and remote sensing communities since 1979. ITRES conducts research and development in applications using imaging detectors for camera systems that operate in visible light, ultraviolet, near infrared, shortwave infrared, and thermal spectral ranges. In addition, the company has developed significant expertise in the successful commercial development of applications and useful products using these optical imaging technologies and in conducting large-scale domestic and international acquisition programs.
Involvement in the development of both precision instruments and their commercial applications has fostered a unique, creative, and dynamic environment at ITRES that has allowed the company to realize benefits not enjoyed by competitors. At times instrument development activities have driven the development of applications; at other times, the commercial technology applications have driven improvements to the instruments.
On the instrument side of their activities, ITRES designs and manufactures a suite of complementary optical remote sensing instruments. Their flagship product is the CASI-3 (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager, 3rd Generation). Using a 1400 pixel-wide CCD array, this is an all-digital, user-programmable, hyperspectral imaging spectrograph, sensitive to visible and near-infrared wavelengths (400-1050nm). Easily installed in light aircraft, it produces orthorectified and radiometrically calibrated continuous strip images or mosaics.
The CASI-3 augments the CASI-2 instrument, which uses a 512 pixel-wide CCD array. Distinguished by its precision, flexibility, and low cost, the CASI-2 had been sold and utilized worldwide. To date, 18 CASI instruments have been sold.
As of 2002, new commercial instrument developments for the company involve two complementary technologies:
A hyperspectral shortwave infrared camera, the SASI (Shortwave Infrared Spectrographic Imager) sensitive to wavelengths between 850 and 2450 nm; and A microbolometer-based thermal instrument, the TABI (Thermal Airborne Broadband Imager) sensitive to wavelengths between 8000
- 12000 nm. A hyperspectral upgrade is scheduled for 2003.
With these instruments, ITRES is able to provide camera systems that provide more complete coverage between the visible and thermal wavelength regions. Data from all instruments may be integrated with data from other technologies, such as LIDAR and IFSAR.
Regarding its commercial application activities, ITRES has successfully developed useful data information products for military, environmental, and resource management applications. These include targets over water (submerged and emergent wetland vegetation mapping, algae detection, chlorophyll concentration, turbidity mapping) and land (forestry, habitat classification, agriculture, weed mapping). Recent application development activities of the company have focused on the early detection of Mountain Pine Bark Beetle-infested trees using CASI data acquired on a large operational scale.
Company Information
Physical Address
Calgary Technology Centre, 110 - 3553 - 31st St., N. W.
Calgary, AB T2L 2K7
CA
Mailing Address
Calgary Technology Centre, 110 - 3553 - 31st St., N. W.
Calgary, AB T2L 2K7
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: Itres Research Limited
Number of Employees: 25
CA
Contacts
Clifford D. Anger
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
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Michelle Wozniak
Title: Corporate Administrator
Area of Responsibility: Export Sales & Marketing
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Steven Mah
Title: Vice-President
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Services
- Environmental Protection
- Industrial Investigation Surveys - Water Pollution
- Instruments & Instrumentation
- Oil Spill Response - Cleanup, Removal, Disposal
- Other Environmental Services
- Other Environmental Studies
- Other Range/Forest Inspection Services
- Other Research & Development
- Technical Support Related To Water Pollution
- Water Quality Studies
- Water Quality Support Services
Products
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Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (casi)
The CASI-3 augments the CASI-2 instrument, which uses a 512 pixel-wide CCD array. Distinguished by its precision, flexibility, and low cost, the CASI-2 had been sold and utilized worldwide. To date, 18 CASI instruments have been sold.
- Electro-optic Devices
- Optical Apparatus/Instruments Nes
- Optical Instruments
- Optoelectronic - Associated Hardware
- Scientific Instruments And Apparatus Nes
NAICS Categories
Additional Information
334512, 541330
5980-Optoelectronic Devices and Associated Hardware, 6650-Optical Instruments, AH00-Environmental Protection, AZ00-Other Research and Development, B103-Water Quality Studies, B109-Other Environmental Studies, E103-Water Quality Support Services, E104-Industrial Investigation Surveys and Technical Support Related to Water Pollution, E111-Oil Spill Response Including Cleanup, Removal, Disposal and Operational Support, E199-Other Environmental Services, F010-Other Range/Forest Improvements Services (non-construction)
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