GIS company establishes local office

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University and area natural-resource companies have lured an Austin, Texas-based company to open an office here.

Earth Information Systems Corp., called Eisys for short, has leased almost 2,000 square feet in the One West Art Center in downtown Fort Collins. Four people are in the office now, and that could double by next spring.

Eisys integrates remote sensing data from satellites with geographic information systems to produce mapping and other imagery for companies involved in oil and gas exploration, mineral exploration, pipeline routing and telecommunications.
“CSU has a very good remote-sensing and GIS program,´ said Doran Geise,…