GEO: connexion articles from April 2004

GEO: connexion archives from April 2004

Academically speaking ...(Upfront)
April 1, 2004... Just to prove that :up front gets to the parts others fail to reach, my comments on our senior academics in last month's issue prompted the following response from Dr. Dominic Fontana, senior lecturer in GIS in the Department of Geography at...

Summer debut for ArcGIS 9.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... ESRI (UK) (Aylesbury, England) will be launching ArcGIS 9 during the summer of 2004. This will extend' ESRI's product suite with major new desktop capabilities. 'Model Builder' is a new visual modelling application for building work flows and...

OSi relocation plan approved.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) is planning for the move of its headquarters from Phoenix Park, Dublin, to Dungarvan, County Waterford, following government approval. The OSi National Mapping Progress Report, published in February 2004, also...

eSpatial supports Oracle 10g.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... eSpatial (Dublin, Ireland) has announced that its iSMART[R] product suite is now compatible with Oracle 10g. eSpatial tested iSMART as part of the 10g beta programme and is now ready to upgrade users from Oracle 9i. Philip O'Doherty, CEO...

BKS back in the Caribbean.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... The Land & Survey Department of the Cayman Island Government has awarded BKS Surveys Ltd (Coleraine, Northern Ireland) a contract to create digital orthorectified photography of the Cayman Islands. BKS beat off competition from Canada, USA and...

Bridge from SICAD to ArcGIS.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... AED-SICAD'S (Munich, Germany) strategic direction includes the development of new solutions based on ESRI ArcGIS technology as well as the integration of existing SICAD applications in the ArcGIS environment. AED-SICAD has now launched GDS-Data...

Laser-Scan tour Oracle user groups.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Following recent presentations in France and Italy, Laser-Scan (Cambridge, England) was invited to showcase Radius Topology at Oracle Spatial special interest groups in both the UK and Germany. Laser-Scan demonstrated Radius Topology's role...

World of data from QAS.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... QAS (London, England) has launched QuickAddress DataWorld. a new product suite, representing an investment of over [pounds sterling]2.5M ([euro]3.7M). It is claimed to deliver a comprehensive solution for organisations seeking to enhance the...

RaveGeo flies high with Nordic helicopter.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... SaabTech has acquired further licenses of Idevio's (Goteborg, Sweden) RaveGeo software for evaluation in the mission management system (MMS) for the new Nordic multi-role helicopter NH90, with an option for many more. The helicopters are...

New Pythagoras from Belgium.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... ADW Software (Vosselaar, Belgium) has released Pythagoras V10.0 for land surveyors, civil engineers, communities and utilities. Already sold on every continent and in seven languages, the new version includes definition of multiple print areas,...

No postcode? No problem!(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Geocoding from postcodes can often be unreliable, especially for tourist attractions, large sports facilities like golf clubs, and country hotels. Often a stately home, for example, will want visitors to find its entrance on the main road--not...

Intergraph in Spain and the Netherlands.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Gastransport Services (GtS), the gas transmission department of N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, has implemented the first phase of its advanced Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS). This uses Intergraph Mapping and GeoSpatial Solutions...

Ordnance Survey preferred bidder.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Ordnance Survey (Southampton, England) has been selected as the preferred bidder for a range of geographical data for local government in Great Britain. This is the first time that the Local Government Information House (London, England),...

Leica goes universal.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... The Leica (Heerbrugge, Switzerland) System 1200 claims to be the first 'universal survey system', by combining GPS and TPS (terrestrial positioning systems?) with uniform software, identical controls, a common database and common hardware...

Czech land register contract.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... The Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (CUZK) in Prague has signed a three year contract with Ness Central & Eastern Europe to provide development and maintenance services for ISKN--the Czech land register information system. Ness...

Managing assets by tablet.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Mayrise (Stroud, England) management and MapNow software is now available as a fully portable system on rugged tablet PCs from Itronix. Field engineers and data recording staff can now use exactly the same software both in and out of the...

New modular digital aerial camera.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... DIMAC Systems (Luxembourg) is finalising the development of the Digital Modular Aerial Camera (DIMAC), designed to replace film-based aerial cameras for mapping at all scales, Its modular design fits every image operator's needs with...

SIA goes mobile.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... SIA (London, England) dataMAP GIS overlays and attributes can now be imported into Positioning Resource's (Aberdeen, Scotland) Pocket GIS on iPAQ Pocket PCs. This enables SIA customers to benefit from the latest hand-held data capture...

UK distributor for KartoScan.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... ArtSystems (Nottingham, England) has been appointed exclusive UK distributor for ProCaptura (Billingstad, Norway) KartoScan large format flat bed scanners. These are new to the UK market and measure up to 1.8metres X 5 metres, satisfying...

Everyone's bodyguard.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Antenna specialist Sarantel (Wellingborough, England) has been awarded a contract to supply its Geohelix miniature antenna to My-Bodyguard BV (Haaksbergen, the Netherlands) that is launching stand-alone personal location products for use in the...

Autodesk gets the call from Vodafone.(LBS News in Brief)
April 1, 2004... Vodafone (Newbury, England) customers in Ireland are getting a faster response to enquiries on network coverage and other issues, thanks to a customised geographical and spatial information system based on Autodesk MapGuide. The system is used...

Swedes scoop Russian LBS contract.(LBS News in Brief)
April 1, 2004... Mobilaris (Stockholm, Sweden) in partnership with Ericsson, has been selected by MegaFon-Moscow (Russia) to deliver a service layer platform for deployment of location-based mobile services. Ericsson will deliver its LBS solution based on a...

Virtual Assistant navigates for novices.(LBS News in Brief)
April 1, 2004... Masternaut (Leeds, England) has launched Virtual Assistant to significantly speed up the induction of new staff such as sales personnel, drivers and field service engineers. This vehicle-based system combines GPS navigation, electronic job...

Sales success for CPS in China.(LBS News in Brief)
April 1, 2004... ZTE Corporation, China's largest publicly quoted telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and Cambridge Positioning Systems Limited (CPS, Cambridge, England) have signed a major marketing and development agreement to deliver Matrix high...

Opportunities.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... GEO: connexion publishes this sample round-up of business opportunities and contract awards courtesy Geo-UK Ltd's twice-weekly newsletter of GIS, mapping and surveying-related tenders and contracts. More information on individual items from...

Leica Geosystems to acquire Van Hopplynus Instruments SA of Belgium.(GEO:News)
April 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) has agreed to acquire the Geodesy business of Van Hopplynus Instruments SA, the main distributor of Leica Geosystems products in Belgium since 1946. Mr. Daniel Van Hopplynus said "Only excellence will...

Trimble.(More Acquisitions)
April 1, 2004... Trimble (NASFAQ: TRMB) has acquired the privately-held TracerNet Corporation of Chantilly, Virginia, in an all-cash deal. TracerNet--a provider of wireless fleet management solutions--will be consolidated under a new legal entity, Trimble...

pps plc.(More Acquisitions)
April 1, 2004... Public sector consultancy, Terraquest, of Tipton in the West Midlands, has been acquired by pps plc, a family of specialist consultancies operating out of 10 offices throughout the United Kingdom. The deal was struck for a price believed to be...

Laser-Scan.(Results)
April 1, 2004... * Laser-Scan (Cambridge, England) has announced full profitability for the last two financial quarters following a successful management buyout in July 2003 Details: * www.laser-scan.com All values converted to euros

MapInfo Corporation.(Results)
April 1, 2004... * MapInfo Corporation (Troy, USA; Nasdaq: MAPS) plans offer 3,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering with an option to the underwriters to purchase up to an additional 525,000 to cover over-allotments, if any."...

Tele Atlas N.V.(Results)
April 1, 2004... * Tele Atlas N.V. ('s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) has postponed the announcement of their figures for the year ended December 31, 2003 until the end of April at latest due to delays in the review of their North American database, according...

Autodesk, Inc.(Results)
April 1, 2004... * Autodesk, Inc. (San Rafael, USA; NASDAQ: ADSK) has announced net revenues of [euro]240 million for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, a 51% increase over [euro]159 million reported for the same period last year. Net...

GeoSpace distributes Intergraph.(GEO:Africa)
April 1, 2004... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Huntsville, Alabama) has announced that GeoSpace International Pty, Ltd. (Pretoria, South Africa) will offer all Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions technology, including Z/I Imaging...

Geological mapping in Zambia.(GEO:Africa)
April 1, 2004... The Times of Zambia reports that the European Union-funded Mining Sector Development Programme (MSDP) in Zambia will this year spend one billion kwacha ([euro]130,000) on mineral mapping activities through the Geological Survey Department...

HandyMap for South Africa.(GEO:Africa)
April 1, 2004... HandyMAP is a new PC and PDA based mapping and route finding system for South Africa launched by MobiTrak (Taiwan) and Comparex (Midrand, South Africa). Comparex's Geographic Information Service (GIS) provided local geographical data for...

Imagesat teams with Dutch Aerospace Lab.(GEO:Middle East)
April 1, 2004... ImageSat International of Tel-Aviv, Israel, has reached agreement through its Singapore distributor, ImageSat International NV, to supply an upgrade kit to the Netherlands-based National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR). This will be incorporated in...

Israel set to join Galileo venture.(GEO:Middle East)
April 1, 2004... Israel hopes to join the European Union's multi-billion-euro Galileo navigation satellite project within the next few weeks, according to Ambassador to the EU Oded Eran. Although Israel's financial contribution to the venture is still being...

High resolution imagery for Dubai Police.(GEO:Middle East)
April 1, 2004... Dubai Police operations department has awarded Space Imaging Middle East (SIME, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) a contract to deliver a multi-scale satellite imagery of the country. The imagery was used to support the police security operations...

INTERGEO East, Belgrade, Serbia.(GEO:Connect)
April 1, 2004... Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. INTERGEO East (3-5 March), the region's first international trade fair and conference for land management, geoinformation, the building industry and the environment, got off to a promising start with 81...

6th UNIGIS conference, George, South Africa.(GEO:Connect)
April 1, 2004... This latest conference staged by UNIGIS, the international distance learning foundation, was held at the end of last year at the picturesque Saasveld Campus of P E Technikon in George, South Africa. The chosen theme was 'GIS: A Tool for...

GSDI-7 conference, Bangalore, India.(GEO:Connect)
April 1, 2004... The 7th International Conference on Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-7) "SDI for Sustainable Future" was held in Bangalore, India (2-6 February). The Conference, inaugurated by Dr K Kasturirangan, Member of Parliament (Rajya...

World of Geomatics, Newbury, England.(GEO:Connect)
April 1, 2004... Newbury Race Course, England. None of the 600 visitors to World of Geomatics 2004 (Newbury, England, 25-26 February) could hide from the eye in the sky. The remotely controlled Skycell balloon with on-board video camera floated effortlessly...

Landmark Government seminars, UK.(GEO:Connect)
April 1, 2004... Landmark Government is running a series of free one-day seminars at which industry experts will discuss the major GI challenges facing local authorities, regional government officers and GIS managers in the utilities and emergency services...

Restructuring takes shape.(AGI View)
April 1, 2004... The restructuring of the AGI, which I mentioned in last month's column, is now well underway. The Executive Group, which replaces the old Management Committee, met for the first time on the 18th of February and responsibilities were allocated...

LISA--Icelandic association for geographic information: (Samtok um landupply singar a islandi fyrir alla).(EUROGI Profile)
April 1, 2004... Date of foundation: 1994 Status: Not for profit National GI Organization President and Chairman of the Board: Geir Thorolfsson Secretary General: Thorbjorg Kr. Kjartansdottir Language: Icelandic Literature: Introductory...

Getting up to speed with broadband: as schools across Britain take advantage of broadband Internet access, so a tailor-made teaching resource helps teachers and pupils widen their horizons.(Focus on ...)
April 1, 2004... A pleasing outlook and smart modern premises welcome visitors to the offices of WebBased Limited in Plymouth, England. Not that the small but dedicated workforce of this educational-cum-business software developer (www.webbased.co.uk) has much...

Britain's National Science Week.(Newsround)
April 1, 2004... As part of Britain's National Science Week (12-21 March), the University of Reading invited the public to take a trip to Mars, courtesy of a simulator developed by the Planetary Society. Dubbed the 'Mars Station Network' it offered the...

EUGISES 2004.(Newsround)
April 1, 2004... EUGISES 2004, the 4th European GIS Education Seminar is scheduled for Villach in Austria, 2-5 September. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Organised by the School of Geoinformation at the Carinthia Technical Institute, the van Hall Instituut, the...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions and the Intergraph GeoSpatial Users Community (IGUC) will be convening an Education Symposium.(Newsround)
April 1, 2004... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions and the Intergraph GeoSpatial Users Community (IGUC) will be convening an Education Symposium at this year's GeoSpatial World international event in Miami Beach, Florida, USA (May 12-14). More...

Sandgard rejoins Intergraph.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Huntsville, Alabama) has appointed Jackie Sandgard as a senior manager in its Nordic and Baltic region, based in Herlev, Denmark. Sandgard brings a strong industry expertise to Intergraph and will...

Leica appoints Watson.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (Atlanta, Georgia) has appointed Wendy Watson as its new vice president of product management and marketing. She will be responsible for providing strategic leadership to continue the company's position as a...

Global product manager at Wallingford.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Wallingford Software (Wallingford, England) has appointed Stuart Dodd as the company's first global product manager for InfoNet, its Network Information Management system for water and wastewater network infrastructure. Dodd also assumes...

Emea sales manager for Trimble.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Katherine Sandford has been appointed Trimble's (Raunheim, Germany) new regional sales manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the mapping and GIS business areas. Sandford joined Trimble in 1991 and was most recently the worldwide...

Jolly new IMTA president.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Peter Jolly of ESRI Inc (Redlands, California) has been appointed the International President of the International Map Trade Association (IMTA). He is the first non American to fill the role. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jolly, although...

Wotherspoon for Metoc Scotland.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Metoc (Liphook, England) has announced the appointment of Dr David Wothersoon to manage its new office in Dundee, Scotland. Arriving from mangement & technical consultants Ewan Associates. Wotherspoon's career spans consultancy, research and...

Smith joins Leica.(GEO:People)
April 1, 2004... Rob Smith has joined Leica Geosystems (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) to drive its GIS business across Europe. He has 20 years experience in the GIS and CAD software industry, most recently being responsible for Autodesk's EMEA partner programmes and...

How do you catch a Lizard? By its tail, of course. That's why GEO: connexion grabbed the opportunity to catch up with LizardTech CEO Carlos Domingo during his most recent trip to Europe.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... The story so far... Formed in 1992 to commercialise promising developments in the research sector, Seattle-based LizardTech captured a lion's share of the raster image compression market with a wavelet-based algorithm first patented by...

GSM location technology comes of age: new industry guidelines and increasing accuracy makes GSM a genuine alternative to GPS, claims Graham Church.(GEO:Futures)
April 1, 2004... With the number of mobile workers on the increase, keeping track of their whereabouts is becoming an increasingly important business issue. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Up until now, there have been only two ways to achieve this: either by...

IACS update: Wolfgang Steinborn finds out how remote sensing and GIS are faring as measures to control subsidies paid under Europe's Common Agricultural Policy.(Letter from Central Europe)
April 1, 2004... "In the developed world, especially in the EEC, Australia, Canada, and the United States, the forces of supply and demand are distorted by agricultural subsidies that encourage the repeated ploughing of marginal land until it becomes highly...

Decision time? Bob Barr argues that until we know who's in charge of Britain's Spatial Data Infrastructure issues, more time and resources will be wasted as the nation drifts in leader-less limbo.(Dangling Segment)
April 1, 2004... By the time you read this article, some critical decisions about the future of Britain's Spatial Data Infrastructure may have been taken. But don't get too excited, judging by past history, a fudge may well be the outcome, and the leader-less...

Managing the risk: insurance giant Norwich Union looks to geoinformation to help it open the floodgate for fairer premiums.(Public Safety)
April 1, 2004... Unprecedented levels of flooding in 2000 wrought havoc across the UK for home owners and insurance companies alike. And with the Environment Agency predicting a tenfold increase in the risk of flooding incidents over the next century, insurers...

When disaster strikes: Richard Guillande, Katharina Thywissen, Jean-Matthieu Buton; Rob Postma and Lucian Chioriu highlight the value of statellite imagery for disaster mapping in the aftermath of last year's Bam earthquake.(Public Safety)
April 1, 2004... On December 26, 2003, a severe earthquake occurred close to the city of Bam in Kerman Province, Iran, causing extensive destruction and loss of life. Within just two days, a study was conducted to demonstrate the application of satellite...

So where's the fire? For London fire fighters, getting help to where it's needed can be a matter of life or death. GEO:connexion looks at how addres technology speeds them on their way.(Public Safety)
April 1, 2004... Negotiating a traffic-choked city of 1.587 sq. km. is bad enough for most Londoners. But for its emergency services, minutes are vital in reaching an incident in time. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nowhere is this more regularly put to the...

Fit for the future in Goppingen: the city at the foot of the historic Hohenstaufen mountain has its sights set high.(Web Mapping)
April 1, 2004... Today's city councils and municipalities are all striving to make graphical and textual data available at the click of a mouse. The aim: to enable better, faster communication between departments, and between the council and its...

Caught on tape: Mary Jo Wagner concludes her review of how radar satellites help tackle an elusive crime.(Remote Sensing)
April 1, 2004... As an industry, offshore oil is inherently slippery in that it both produces the energy needed for daily life and yet stifles, if not deadens the varied energy of the environment. At one end of the pipeline, there are riches galore for...

Prophet or doom? Jonathan Shears continues his defence-oriented review of remote sensing by outlining developments in satellite imaging technology, platforms and launch vehicles.(Satellite Remote Sensing)
April 1, 2004... A significant factor in the mainstream uptake of imagery in GIS applications in the late 1990's was the 'GIS-ready' nature of remotely sensed imagery. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] As non-imaging specialists, GIS users prefer imagery to be fully...

MIRAGE in the making: a new satellite imagery retrieval service for LBS developers is no figment of the imagination, as Richard Proud explains in the first of a two-part series.(Remote Sensing)
April 1, 2004... A new acronym in the shape of MIRAGE has been coined by a UK-based consortium (see facing page). But unlike its imagination-driven counterpart, the 'Mobile Image Retrieval and Geo-correction Environment' is a very real attempt to give...

Something to count on: a year on from their release, James Nolan examines how key statistics drawn from the 2001 UK census can be applied in geographical analysis.(Census and Business)
April 1, 2004... Retailers have long used the analytical and presentational functions of Geographic Information Systems to aid decision-making, not least in identifying suitable sites for new outlets. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Their usefulness to British...

Traffic control from the air: Frithjof Voss and Bernhard Gruber describe a novel method based on thermal-IR aerial imagery.(Transport)
April 1, 2004... Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in the volume of road traffic, especially in urban areas. And with transport experts in the European Commission predicting continuing growth until at least 2020, the challenge is not simply to...

Large format colour printers: Mike Bedford seeks the perfect image.(Hardware)
April 1, 2004... According to a recent report, on-line mapping Websites have enjoyed a 300 per cent growth in just 12 months. Buzz words such as seamless maps, map server, Internet mapping, dynamic content and query layers are becoming commonplace and you could...

Network Rail.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Network Rail has appointed Arup (London, England) working in partnership with Donaldson Associates (Uttoxeter, England) to undertake a strategic study for the development of a national asset management database for earthworks, retaining walls,...

Aseriti.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Aseriti (Birmingham, England) has implemented an innovative solution to transfer information on the region's 62,000 mile pipe network from paper maps onto mobile computers. Designed for Severn Trent Water it will significantly reduce costs for...

Beacon Dodsworth.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... The Government Office for the West Midlands has selected Beacon Dodsworth (York, England) to provide map access to the availability of [pounds sterling]500M (725M) of Objective 2 European Structural funds within their region. Entering a...

CeGi GmbH.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... CeGi GmbH (North Rhine Westphalia) is co-ordinating the GDI NRW initiative for the development of an SDI in the Lande and across its borders. to help with the efficient and sustainable supply of geospatial information. The target for 2004 is to...

ESRI.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... ESRI (Redlands, California) has announced the formation of ESRI Finland following the recent reorganisation of Novo Meridian, the former Finnish distributor of ESRI's GIS products. Rickard Zetterberg will be the CEO of ESRI Finland, Zetterberg...

Eurimage.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Eurimage (Rome, Italy) has issued a new price list, effective from March 2004. This includes reduced prices for Quickbird images with multispectral data now the same price as pan or pan sharpened 3 band data. There are further discounts on...

Ceredigion County Council.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Ceredigion County Council in Wales have launched a new bilingual interactive mapping facility, believed to be the first of its kind in Wales. A variety of Ceredigion data and Ordnance Survey mapping is presented in both Welsh and English. The...

GISnet Solutions.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... GISnet Solutions (Helsinki, Finland) has supplied the forest owners and forest harvesting and transporting subcontractors eMetsa (eForest) service for Stora Enso. Owners can view information about their own estates and administer their...

Idevio.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Geo SE, part of the National Land Survey of Sweden and the principal map supplier to the Swedish Armed Forces has acquired Idevio (Goteborg, Sweden) RaveGeo licenses for test and review purposes. The deal includes software, training and...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Huntsville, Alabama) is renaming the Team GeoMedia Program to the Intergraph Synergy Program and expanding it to cover all Intergraph's geospatial products including GeoMedia[R], IntelliWhere and...

Geospatial One-Stop (GOS).(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... The Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) sponsored by the US Office of Management and Budget addresses the critical issue of "Information Interoperability" between data sources and creates an application that accesses and interprets a variety of data...

ITT Industries, Inc.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... ITT Industries, Inc. (White Plains, New York) is purchasing the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) business from Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, New York) for $725 million. RSS is a leading supplier of high-resolution satellite imaging systems and...

Laser-Scan.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... Laser-Scan's (Cambridge, England) new improved website is now live with information areas for solutions, technologies and industries, enabling users to reach customised information more easily. The new site comprises all information previously...

LizardTech, Inc.(Business Briefs)
April 1, 2004... LizardTech, Inc (Seattle, Washington) and Mapping Science have announced a settlement in LizardTech's lawsuit against Mapping Science for misappropriation of trade secrets. Mapping Science will cease operations and transfer all assets to...