DEMETER, THE MATRA INTERACTIVE SYSTEM FOR THE PROCESSING AND
MANAGEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL DATA
Christian VIGNERON
Marketing Manager for Cartography and Remote Sensing
MATRA - Division Marketing Optique
3, avenue du Centre - MONTIGNY
78182 SAINT QUENTIN EN YVELINES CEDEX - FRANCE
ABSTRACT
The DEMETER integrated system is designed for the processing of topo-
graphical and cartographical applications and for the management of the
utilities, in towns and local government.
This system allows to create and manage a geographical data base that
links up the administrative information with the geocoded estate
information.
Due to its modular design, this system can be tailored to meet the user's
requirements, and/or distributed to several remote sites, each of them
specialized in different tasks. It ensures a total coherence between the
various types of information which are acquired. In addition, it can be
extended at any time, without jeopardizing the applications previously
developed.
All the topographic and geographic information gathered on a determined
geographic site are structured and stored in a data base refered to as
"operation base". Topographic information may come from the different
sources
* Photogrammetric information
* Field information
* Information from existing maps
The DEMETER system manages the data from their acquisition up to their
filing.
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