GGSD Program Details for SPANS

SPANS

Category	Geographical information systems
Publisher	PCI Geomatics
Platform	Win95/98, WinNT
Status	Commercial
Description	SPANS Spatial Analysis Software Suite functions include: Full raster and vector integration. On-screen digitising, with full topology. Advanced customer querying and modelling. Application customisation features. 37 point to surface routines. Topological and multi-layer analysis. Change detection and raster filters. It is a modular system consisting of: SPANS Explorer as the base module which contains the fundamental features necessary to build a spatial database and perform analysis functions such as matrix and multi-criteria overlay. It is a raster/vector software package that allows the user to import, analyse, model and export all major geographic data types. SPANS Topographer allows users to create raster elevation models from point or contour lines as well as to perform visibility analysis. SPANS Prospector creates continuous surfaces from point data that may otherwise be difficult to interpret. SPANS Pioneer carries out change detection, topological modelling, unique conditions analysis and table/map aggregation and has a modelling language for user defined functions. SPANS Pathfinder includes network analysis and TIN functionality. SPANS Author is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) builder.
Data formats supported	None stated
Supplier in Canada	PCI Geomatics