17th July 2008 - Infoterra Ltd, sole distributor for ERDAS desktop software products in the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce that Compass Informatics Ltd will be its reseller in Ireland from 1st August 2008.

Compass Informatics, based in County Dublin, provides a suite of integrated spatial & information management services focused primarily on environmental and natural resources management, location and planning applications.

"We are delighted to have Compass Informatics as part of our team and to offer customers in Ireland local sales and support, together with training," said Phil Cooper, Imaging Software Business Manager at Infoterra Ltd. "We will be holding our first geoimaging user group conference in September and look forward to welcoming many ERDAS users from the UK and Ireland."

"With this valuable product suite we will be able to offer customers a wider range of solutions - from image processing & analysis, to image compression and sharing. Solutions which are as applicable to the small company as to global enterprises," stated Gearóid Ó Riain, Managing Director at Compass Informatics Ltd. "We are currently planning information seminars and training courses which will run later this year and throughout 2009."

GeoImaging User Group Conference 2008
This residential conference will run from 29th to 30th September at St. Annes College, Oxford University. For more information visit www.infoterra.co.uk/erdas.php

About Infoterra Group
Infoterra Ltd is a leading provider of geographic information products and services. Its portfolio of geographic information solutions includes airborne and satellite data acquisition, geo-information creation, database management and outsourced hosting. Infoterra provides geospatial knowledge to companies worldwide to help them make informed decisions. The company has major customers in utilities, insurance, engineering, agriculture, defence and oil, gas & mineral exploration.

Infoterra Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astrium, Europe's leading space systems and services specialist. Infoterra Ltd is part of the Infoterra Group, which also comprises companies in France, Germany, Hungary and Spain.

www.infoterra.co.uk

About Compass Informatics Ltd
Compass Informatics is a Dublin-based geographic and information management consultancy focused on the appropriate use of technologies in the planning, natural resources and environmental sectors in particular. It is a vendor-independent systems developer, choosing best-fit solutions on a case by case basis.

www.compass.ie

For more information, contact:

Sarah Haslam, Infoterra Ltd, +44 (0)116 273 2300
Cheryl Billson, PR for Infoterra, +44 (0)7791 720460, Email Contact
Gearóid Ó Riain, Tel +35 31 2104580, goriain@compass.ie