• 1992

Company Description

Vexcel Imaging is a leading provider of aerial and terrestrial sensor systems and fully integrated processing software.

Founded in 1992, Vexcel Imaging boasts over twenty years of photogrammetric and remote sensing expertise. Their highly successful line of UltraCam systems was launched with the first UltraCam in 2003. In 2006, Vexcel Imaging was acquired by Microsoft Corporation to enhance the talent, technologies, products and services dedicated to fulfilling Microsoft’s vision for best-of-breed local search and mapping solutions for consumers, businesses and governments. As a Microsoft subsidiary, Vexcel Imaging contributed to the success of Microsoft’s Bing program by pushing the envelope of photogrammetric hardware and software technology with innovations that underpinned the Bing Maps web service and mapping platform. As a direct result of these advancements, our UltraMap photogrammetric workflow software solution was born and today offers customers with an extremely rapid and efficient solution for generating aerial imagery and downstream data products such as high density point clouds, digital surface models and orthophotos. Ten years later, Vexcel Imaging is again a private company and continuing Their story of success with renewed and greater flexibility and agility.