FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 1999

Aeroterra Announces new Integrated System for Geographical Business Management

Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Geocoded street data and other digital cartography for major Argentine cities and markets, and often costing thousands of dollars, are now economically bundled with ArcView GIS with significant cost savings for commercial users desiring high data quality and consistency.

AeroterrA's "Gran Buenos Aires" module includes an ArcView GIS license with the Spanish extension, cartographic databases with provincial (23) and departmental >1500) divisions, and street centerlines with names and address ranges for the Federal Capital and 24 municipalities of Gran Buenos Aires. Aeroterra also provides each user with its "Estilo Argentino de Direcciones" license for local address geocoding and an inscription in their ESRI-certified ArcView training course.

Similar modules are available for: A) Argentina's other principal urban centers and markets (Gran La Plata, Gran Córdoba, Gran Rosario, Gran Mendoza, Mar del Plata and Bahía Blanca), and B) Provincial Capitals and other cities (total of 25).

In addition, Aeroterra provides several optional databases for your areas of interest, including:

Detailed census data with Population (71 variables), Housing (33 variables) and Homes (58 variables) at block (or "Radios Censuales" level; Digital Elevation Modules for all of Argentina for analyzing topography, visualizing profiles and lines of sight, cut and fill calculations, etc.; Land Use/Land Cover for Gran Buenos Aires (from Zárate to La Plata), including building heights (0-10m, 10-30m, >30m), parks, water, bare ground, land occupancy (5-45%, 45-75%, >75%, and natural vegetation and forest.

For more information about these and other systems, products and related services, visit our page on the Internet: www.aeroterra.com

Aeroterra, founded in 1973, is the leading company in Latin America providing geoprocessing services and products to diverse markets, including forestry, agriculture, petroleum exploration, mining, urban and rural cadasters, telecommunications and business geographics. Aeroterra is also the exclusive representative for Argentina and Uruguay of the leading geoinformation companies, including ESRI, ERDAS and Radarsat.