In 1998, Mark Lucas and the other folks at ImageLinks, Inc., already had a product. Forty programmers and scientists had spent 14 years building the original version for the Harris Corporation. This software was classified during the cold war and finally declassified in the early 1990s. ImageLinks spun off of Harris to apply this same technology in the commercial remote sensing market, which involves methods used to get information about the earth from somewhere other than the earth's surface.

This program is a collection of tools that work together to provide image analysis. Pictures taken by remote sensing equipment--typically from a satellite or a digital camera on a high-flying airplane--are fed into the program, mapped onto a three-dimensional model of the earth, and manipulated, merged with other images from other equipment, or who knows what else.

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