ITT Visual Information Solutions

ITT Visual Information Solutions was the name of a geospatial and scientific software business that ITT Corporation formed in 2004 when it bought Research Systems Inc. and the Remote Sensing Systems division of Eastman Kodak. Research Systems traced its origin to 1977, when David Stern, working at the University of Colorado on the Mariner Mars space probes, began developing the language that became IDL, the Interactive Data Language, for data analysis and visualization. The company released the ENVI image analysis package in 1994 and was acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2000. When ITT split into three companies in 2011 the unit joined Exelis Inc. and was renamed Exelis Visual Information Solutions. Harris Corporation bought it in 2015, it passed to L3Harris Technologies after the 2019 merger, and NV5 Global acquired it in 2023 and renamed it NV5 Geospatial Software. Its products serve defense, environmental, medical imaging and academic users.