Mr. Patrick Blott reports

INTERMAP WINS MAJOR INDONESIAN MAPPING CONTRACT

Intermap Technologies Corp. has won a $20-million contract to map the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 2024. The contract is the first phase of the Indonesian national topographic base map program to create a national digital base map as part of the One Map program backed by presidential decree. Under the One Map program's approved technical specifications, the government will collect airborne IFSAR-derived (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) elevation data and cloud-free radar imagery for the entire country at resolutions suitable for 1:5,000 scale mapping. The first phase awarded today represents 10 per cent of the country's land area and 10 per cent of the One Map program. Work on the remaining 90 per cent is expected over the subsequent four years.

Indonesia's national geospatial agency, Badan Informasi Geospasial (BIG), has been mandated to create a national digital base map. Indonesia is the fourth-most-populous country and one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia, strategically positioned on the major trade route through the South China Sea. Base maps play a critical role in policy formation, decision making and implementation of activities such as natural resource management, disaster response and spatial planning. Creating base maps to the 1:5,000 scale specification requires high-resolution remote sensing data, including imagery and digital elevation models (DEMs), to extract details like buildings, roads, land cover and terrain features. Indonesia is home to the world's largest tropical peatlands and mangrove forests, as well as the third-largest tropical rainforest. These natural resources are vital in capturing carbon and helping mitigate climate-change impacts, and are key resources for supporting Indonesia's long-term development. Base maps are essential for developing spatial plans, emergency response and natural disaster rehabilitation.

The contract procurement to achieve this objective included a competitive process, which evaluated multiple commercial airborne and satellite technologies and sensors. Today's award represents one of the largest single-source topographic mapping programs ever and demonstrates that national mapping agencies value Intermap's unique, airborne, native-3-D (three-dimensional) IFSAR collection, high-quality elevation data and rapid processing technology. Intermap and its partners will utilize Intermap's IFSAR to map the entire Island of Sulawesi, an area of more than 180,000 square kilometres. No other company can meet Indonesia's technical requirements within the budget and time frame allotted by the contract.

Intermap has an exclusive partnership with the subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise, PT Pratama Persada Airborne (PPA), which leverages the strengths of both parties. The partnership combines Intermap's cutting-edge, patented IFSAR collection technology and data-processing expertise with PPA's extensive local knowledge, resources and government support. Together, the companies provide an unparalleled mapping solution for this first phase of the Indonesian national mapping program and future work under the One Map program.

Today's contract is expected to be the first phase of the One Map program to map approximately 17,000 islands, spanning Indonesia's entire territory, covering equatorial Southeast Asia. The follow-on contract is expected to take four years and will complete the foundation base map, with additional agreements to support the maintenance of the base map.

"This major contract in Indonesia highlights the value of our decades of experience, commercialization expertise and technological development," said Patrick A. Blott, Intermap chairman and chief executive officer. "We have had a presence in Indonesia since the 1990s and have received numerous contracts over the past two decades. The progression of our technology, our exploitation of relevant data to drive valuable commercial use cases and the expansion of our operations in Indonesia are a testament to our ability to respond to challenging client requirements -- in this case, in-country processing, stringent data specifications, and ability to work closely with the local surveying, mapping, government and business communities."

Indonesia is located in the cloud belt, often blanketed with persistent cloud cover, and mostly comprising rural areas and dense tropical rainforests. IFSAR technology is the only mapping solution that offers cloud-penetrating and foliage-penetrating capabilities at the resolutions required to achieve 1:5,000 scale mapping. Intermap's IFSAR is approved by the Indonesian government as a preferred technology, capable of achieving the required base map standards. This award demonstrates the high degree of confidence Indonesia has for the collection and processing capabilities of Intermap and its partners. Indonesia plans to commercialize the data, and Intermap is uniquely positioned to contribute its extensive experience and capabilities to create exploitation tools for applications such as flood mapping, navigation, resource management and infrastructure monitoring.

Under the terms of the contract, which is subject to additional amended terms and conditions regarding subcontractors for the final allocation of taxes for goods and services, Intermap will provide collection, processing and delivery of high-quality elevation data and imagery data as part of a consortium of other local operators. The entire area will be captured using airborne IFSAR, an SAR-based, native-three-dimensional collection technology with quality and precision that cannot be duplicated with spaceborne sensors. After an extensive, multiyear evaluation process with the country's expert SAR community, airborne IFSAR was identified as the only technology that could meet the government's ambitious specifications for accuracy and detail. Intermap's sensors and technology collect 25-centimetre resolution IFSAR imagery and produce 0.50-metre resolution digital surface models, one-metre resolution digital terrain models, and feature products, including triple-canopy foliage penetration, for foundational base maps. Intermap's proprietary IFSAR co-registered X- and P-band sensors will be deployed on one of its STAR-3 high-altitude, wholly owned Learjet platforms. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company's patented IRIS and LENS processing engines enable country-scale processing at speed by automatically extracting primary features from the company's aerial SAR as well as multisourced data, including high-frequency and low-frequency radar, multispectral imagery, lidar (light detection and ranging), satellite SAR, optical sensors, aerial photo, and other sources, in near real time, to assist in identifying and monitoring changes in features, objects and hybrid vectors.

About Intermap Technologies Corp.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Denver, Colo., Intermap is a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions, focusing on the creation and analysis of three-dimensional terrain data to produce high-resolution thematic models. Through scientific analysis of geospatial information and patented sensors and processing technology, the company provisions diverse, complementary, multisource data sets to enable customers to seamlessly integrate geospatial intelligence into their workflows. Intermap's 3-D elevation data and software analytic capabilities enable global geospatial analysis through artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing customers with critical information to understand their terrain environment. By leveraging its proprietary archive of the world's largest collection of multisensor global elevation data, the company's collection and processing capabilities provide multisource 3-D data sets and analytics at mission speed, enabling governments and companies to build and integrate geospatial foundation data with actionable insights. Applications for Intermap's products and solutions include defence, aviation and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) flight planning, flood and wildfire insurance, disaster mitigation, base mapping, environmental and renewable-energy planning, telecommunications, engineering, critical infrastructure monitoring, hydrology, land management, oil and gas, and transportation.

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