TerraGo is a private company based in
Sterling, Virginia
Sterling refers most specifically to a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population of the CDP as of the 2020 United States Census was 30,337 The CDP boundaries are confined to a relatively small area between Virginia ...
with offices in
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...
, and the UK that develops
location intelligence
In business intelligence, location intelligence (LI), or spatial intelligence, is the process of deriving meaningful insight from geospatial data relationships to solve a particular problem. It involves layering multiple data sets spatially and/o ...
, geospatial collaboration, GIS applications, and GPS data collection software. Founded in 2005, TerraGo is an
In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the lates ...
portfolio company. In 2012, TerraGo acquired fellow In-Q-Tel portfolio company
Geosemble. Aside from being an In-Q-Tel portfolio company, TerraGo is notable in part for pioneering the patented technology, related standards and best practices upon which
GeoPDF and
geospatial PDF Geospatial PDF is a set of Geospatial technology, geospatial extensions to the Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to include information that relates a region in the document page to a region in physical space — called georeferencing ...
are based, as well as programs related thereto.
US National Map
TerraGo is the platform used by the
USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
to deliver the US Topo Quadrangles over the web. The platform is based on a combination of software from multiple vendors, including
Esri
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri (), is an American Multinational corporation, multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for ...
, TerraGo and others. The maps are delivered as GeoPDF products, which can be consumed by any PDF consuming software, including
Adobe Reader
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (former ...
.
US Army Geospatial Center
The
US Army Geospatial Center distributes a wide variety of products, including USGS topos, and a variety of
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national se ...
maps as GeoPDF maps. Raymond Caputo won the
USGIF
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational foundation in Virginia dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger GEOINT Community with government, in ...
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Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Awardin 2008 for his work on the AGC's GeoPDF project, with the citation "This project has been instrumental in getting geospatial information out of the hands of GIS/mapping professionals and into the hands of anyone and everyone who can benefit from its use within the DoD and other sectors in and out of government."
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External links
TerraGo homepageUS7562289AGC GeoPDF GalleryGIS User Article on TerraGo Lightweight GIS ApplicationsEarth Imaging Journal Article, Gaining True ROI on Geospatial Tech Investments, April 1, 2015Consumer Electronics Article on CM-Accuracy on Smartphone with TerraGo Edge
American Surveyor
GIS companies