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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC PRODUCTS 
The photogrammetric products are most informatively covered 
according to location of manufacture. As has been explained 
above, products from Leica Aarau fall within the Surveying and 
Photogrammetry Systems division, whereas those from Heerbrugg fall 
within Industry and Special Products. 
3.1 Leica Aarau AG 
The main product ranges from Aarau are well known. Note that 
existing products will retain "Kern" and "Wild" in their product 
names. The Wild BC3 analytical stereoplotter is attracting high 
levels of sales. It is a versatile and productive instrument with 
modern, friendly mapping software running under the Unix operating 
system on Compaq or Data General computers. Users report high 
productivity in both mapping and close range applications. 
Upgrade kits are available to bring ACls, BCls and BC2s up to BC3 
level. The recent launch of RISIS, Raster Image Superimposition 
System, in both mono and stereo versions, enables users of BC3s 
and upgraded BCls and BC2s to check for completeness and accuracy 
of new mapping, map revision, digital terrain models, industrial 
measurement, etc. 
The Kern DSR14 and DSR15 lines are also well known and successful. 
The DSR14 is the "workhorse" for mapping applications, appealing 
to users of the MS-DOS operating system on personal computers. A 
strong interface, PC-PRO 600, to Intergraph's powerful 
MicroStation CAD software provides customers with a superb 
environment for data collection, editing and presentation. The 
Polytel touch sensitive keyport simplifies the user interface. A 
new release of the DSR14 software at the end of 1990 will 
strengthen the appeal of this instrument. The DSR15 is the top of 
the line, offering a wide variety of options, such as CCD cameras 
or KRISS (Kern Raster Image Superimposition System). The DSR15 
runs under VMS on Digital MicroVAX and VAXstation computers. 
Customers can upgrade their DSR1, DSR11 and DSR12 instruments to 
DSR14 or DSR15 as required. The DSR15-18 is also available, with 
double size stage plates for accommodating either LFC imagery or 
two simultaneous pairs of 23 x 23 cm photographs for comparative 
measurements in fields like glaciology. 
A new development offered to DSR15 customers is MAPIT. This is a 
streamlined version of Kern INFOCAM, the established land 
information system from Leica Aarau. MAPIT is designed for 
photogrammetric data collection, editing and presentation and 
incorporates sufficient modules of INFOCAM to provide these 
functions in a friendly but powerful way (Fig. 3) . MAPIT operates 
in conjunction with KRISS, on which the menus appear, so that the 
photogrammetric operator can make selections without looking away 
from his oculars. MAPIT incorporates a topology builder with an 
inconsistency check. Thus the operator not only collects complete 
and accurate data, verifiable by KRISS, but he forwards clean, 
consistent data to the next stage of the process. The IMPRESS 
module, which is part of MAPIT and is an option available to 
INFOCAM customers, is new and includes powerful interactive 
facilities for designing plots, which can be directed to Kern GP1,