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Definiens appoints Sinclair Knight Merz as eCognition reseller for Australia and New Zealand

Munich, Germany, July 1, 2005 - Definiens AG today announced an agreement with Sinclair Knight Merz, an Australia-based professional services firm, to serve as a reseller of eCognition products for Australia and New Zealand.

For both Definiens and Sinclair Knight Merz, this partnership is key to their mutual goal of providing cutting edge remote sensing technologies and services to the widest range of organizations.

"Australia and New Zealand represent essential and potentially huge markets for our software technologies," says Markus Heynen, Definiens' Manager International Sales & Marketing - Earth Business Unit." By joining with Sinclair Knight Merz, a reputed, well positioned organization with vast experience and expertise in delivering Geospatial solutions, we are confident that Definiens technologies will make further significant inroads."

"We see this as a way to provide our clients with imagery software that performs satellite image classification more intelligently, more accurately and more efficiently than traditional classification methods. Definiens award winning software offers a completely new, unique approach to image classification allowing SKM to offer a proven software tool with high resolution satellite imagery acquisitions," says John Cazani, SKM's Business Manager - DigitalGlobe. "This new relationship with Definiens reinforces our ability to provide clients with an imagery solution as part of our spatial services business. As the available resolution of satellite imagery improves, we now have the ability to offer a toolset that delivers high quality imagery products and services."

About Definiens
Definiens is a global leader in providing advanced image intelligence solutions and services that enable its clients to harness all relevant information from digital image to support fast and accurate decision making crucial to its business process. Definiens' products are built on its platform technology (eCognition) that represents a quantum leap in the realms of digital image analysis. Our products are offered across chosen markets, initially focusing on Earth Observation/Remote Sensing (EO/RS) and Life Sciences. Definiens offers advanced and robust image analysis solutions to accelerate the drug discovery, development, and diagnostics processes in life sciences, and perform satellite and aerial image classification more intelligently, more accurately, and more efficiently than traditional methods. Definiens has customers worldwide in the areas of Life Sciences and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing (EO/RS), including leading companies, academic centers, and government agencies. Founded in 1994 by Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Gerd Binnig, Definiens is based in Munich, Germany. For further information regarding the company and its products please visit www.definiens.com

About Sinclair Knight Merz
Sinclair Knight Merz Group is a leading global professional services firm working with public and private sector clients across several chosen market areas. Services include engineering, scientific studies, planning, economics, logistics, architecture, geotechnical engineering, project management and spatial information. Sinclair Knight Merz Spatial Sector works with clients to plan, design, build and integrate complex information management systems, with an aim to enhancing their client's operational efficiency, management effectiveness, and decision-making and planning capabilities. We provide leading edge services encompassing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying , data conversion, mapping and spatial databases .