exchange . for the surname blom see blom surname . for the cryptographic scheme see blom s scheme . blom as type public industry cartography founded 1954 headquarters oslo norway area served europe key people dirk blaauw ceo revenue nok 335 million 2012 operating income nok 1 7 million 2012 net income nok 66 6 million 2012 number of employees 600 2013 parent nrc group website www.blomasa.com blom is a leading european service provider within acquisition processing and modelling of geographical information . blom maintains unique european databases with collections of map images and models . with particular focus on online services blom provides data and solutions to customers in government enterprise and consumer markets and enables partners to create applications using blom s databases location based services and navigation solution . blom has more than 600 employees and subsidiaries in 10 countries . the company headquarters is in oslo norway . the parent company nrc group is listed on the oslo stock exchange ose nrc . 1 history edit blom asa was founded in 1954 by hydrographer ole h. blom . by 1988 the company was listed on oslo stock exchange . in 2015 the company merged with team bane and svensk j rnv gsteknik to create nrc group making blom a subsidiary of the new company . 2 operations edit the primary business areas are aerial photography laser scanning lidar mapping and modelling databases and database applications gis services and online map services blomurbex . blom focuses on the following main market segments defence & security resources & environment government & public administration utilities & infrastructure web & mobile solutions blom uses large format cameras mounted in twin engined fixed winged aircraft or rotor wing helicopters assisted by global positioning system gps with inertial measurement units imu to perform oblique and vertical aerial photography . in addition the company capture map data using survey cameras laser scanners lidar and hyperspectral scanners . blom maintains a large database of oblique and vertical aerial photography laser data map models such as 3d city models digital surface models and digital terrain models and digital orthophoto images . references edit new name and new ticker from 2 june 2015 . oslo stock exchange newsweb . 1 june 2015 . retrieved 2 july 2015 . blom team bane och svensk j rnv gsteknik g r ihop . svensk j rnv gsteknik . 7 may 2015 . archived from the original on 5 june 2015 . retrieved 5 june 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blom & oldid 709964894 categories business services companies of norwaycompanies based in oslocompanies established in 1954companies listed on the oslo stock exchange navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 14 march 2016 at 04 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view