We benefit from our technology and expertise in the development of high-quality software applications and information systems. Combined with highly skilled software professionals with a deep
understanding of geospatial information, allows us to create solutions that meet and exceed our clients’ needs and expectations.
We have successfully executed several projects involving spatial data capturing and spatial data analysis for customers in Slovenia and abroad. Most of our solutions are based on Giselle – our
in-house framework for efficient management and editing of spatial data. The most prominent application of the Giselle framework is the LPIS system used by the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Food: the distributed system, installed on standard PC hardware, provides spatial visualization and editing capabilities to more than 500 simultaneous remote users. This project serves
as an excellent proof of both our GIS capabilities as well as the flexibility and efficiency of the Giselle framework.
Giselle is a framework, that enables users to manage polygons of the underlying map as well as add other graphical elements such as text, points and lines
with an applet from within a browser. The system enables users to associate polygons with database data that can come either from an Oracle or a PostgreSQL database. The necessary network
communication is reduced to a minimum and does not hinder the user from being productive. Nevertheless, the Giselle tool enables users to use the benefits of remote collaboration (remote GIS layers,
for instance). These are the basic functionalities and a complete system is built using them and adding business logic which is different for every project.
Cosylab has developed an innovative and powerful set of Java-based tools which cover all aspects of Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). They can be
deployed in a client-server architecture, in an Internet-based system or even on a CD. We have combined these tools into an Internet-based system for editing the graphical and descriptive information
on usage of agricultural land. The application has been developed in co-operation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MAFF) in Slovenia and is being used on a daily basis by more
than 850 users for EU farming subventions applications and monitoring under IACS regulation.
The requirements for efficient distribution of ortophotography are ideally solved with the Cosylab Image Server, which has been developed as part of the
Giselle LPIS system. The architecture consists of one central image server, many clients and an optional local image server, one for each LAN of clients. The local image server aggressively caches
images and the central server ensures that the data are consistent and up to date. Images can be transferred either via the Internet, physically via DVD/CD, or both. The clients access the local
image server for images. If an image is not cached yet, it is transparently loaded from the central image server to the local image server. The applied technology is similar to bitTorrent or other
new generation P2P networks (such as KAD), which deal with the distribution of large data sets among many hosts.
Geo Toolkit is a set of data quality tools. They were developed for customers who need to adjust users' geographic data in case their existing geographic
base layer had changed (e.g. orthophoto base layer). At GIS solutions a lot of users' data are snapped to orthophoto base data layer. Whenever a base data layer is improved by reaching a higher
precision then users' data no longer match with it. Geo Toolkit package provides three tools which help users to solve such inadequacies.
Geopedia is a web-based free atlas, which can be edited an extended by its users – members of the general public.
Cosylab GIS business unit consists of highly skilled professionals with extensive experiences in the development of various high-quality software
applications and turnkey GIS solutions.
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