Research Systems Unveils Significant Visualization Enhancements With Noesys 2.0 Launch

Business Wire, June 21, 1999

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1999--

Enhanced Software Combines Research Systems' Renowned

Interactive Data Language with User-Friendly Interface

Research Systems, Inc. today announced the launch of Noesys 2.0, an enhanced software tool designed for scientists and engineers who need analysis and visualization capabilities for large technical and multi dimensional data.

Noesys 2.0 is the first visualization solution to combine the simplicity of a point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI) with the power of Research Systems' Interactive Data Language (IDL(R)).

"By combining the power of IDL with an easy-to-use GUI, we have significantly expanded the scope of the Noesys product," said Bill Okubo, Research Systems' Noesys product manager. "Never before has this level of data visualization been so easy to render."

Noesys 2.0 is targeted towards technical users who require 2-D and 3-D visual renderings through effective handling of complex data. Typical users include astronomers, scientists, chemists, geologists, biologists, physicists and engineers. Medical, educational and government professionals also utilize the capabilities of Noesys.

Users can easily access data in up to seven dimensions. Noesys' simple menus allow users to save their data, images, color palettes and annotations in one convenient self-describing HDF file. Noesys is especially useful to the NASA EOS community. For example, NASA scientists can use Noesys 2.0 to quickly visualize and manipulate complex satellite and astronomy-related data.

Highlights of the new features of Noesys 2.0 include:

- IDL Integration -- Users can perform IDL operations through

simple commands that extend the basic menu options for analysis

and visual renderings. Data, including HDF raster, palette and

attribute data, can be shared between Noesys and IDL.

- HDF & HDF-EOS Functionality -- Noesys 2.0 provides support for

nine additional HDF-EOS/GCTP map projections and projections can

be based upon non-global data. HDF 4.1r2 and HDF-EOS libraries

have been integrated into this release. The product is also

compatible with GZIP compressed datasets.

- Import/Export Features -- Noesys 2.0 is equipped with netCDF/CDF,

GeoTIFF and STDS import translators and an HDF-EOS grid export

translator.

- Additional Features -- Noesys 2.0 allows users to change the

numeric format and font in the dataset, data table and grid

editors. The new product also includes an image size dialog for

more exact image creation and a subsetting interface for datasets

and tables.

System Requirements, Pricing and Availability

Noesys 2.0 supports both Windows(R) and Macintosh(R) environments. Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 and Intel(R) x86 users are recommended to have 32 MB of RAM. Macintosh users will need MacOS 8.1 or higher and must be running on a PowerPC or iMAC with a recommended 32 MB of RAM.

Noesys 2.0 pricing starts at $495, and will be available in June 1999.

About Research Systems, Inc.

Boulder-based Research Systems Inc., is a private company that supports more than 75,000 users of its data analysis and visualization software products worldwide through a direct sales force and network of international subsidiaries and distributors. Primary markets for the company's products are analysis, aerospace, earth sciences, physics, software development, medical imaging and test engineering. Additional information can be found at Research Systems' Web site at www.rsinc.com.