66 -- Digital Transfer Scope

USDA Forest Service, White Mountain NF, NH. Sources Sought for the purchase of a Digital Transfer Scope (DTS). DTS shall be able to extract the ground information directly into a Geographic Information System (GIS). Unit shall be a high performance zoom stereoscope that also provides for viewing photos wiht both eyes, as well as viewing a computer monitor display superimposed onot one phot of a stereo pair. Unit shall contain wide-field objecttives, an internal LCD monitor and optics, and be capable of a direct graphical transfer by the operator of what is seen on the photos into ESRI's ArcView 3.X, providing for direct visual comparison of the photos and GIS vector-file base maps. Unit should also be capable of working with ERSI's ArcView 8.X. Unit shall come with software that provides function for continuous zoom, warping, rotating and stretching the shapelines to fit the photography. Unit should have a camera mount for capturing pictures of what is seen throught the instruments eyepiece.