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SIDNEY , BC - December 2, 2004

AXYS Technologies (ATI), a remote environmental monitoring company located in Sidney, B.C., Canada, has been awarded the opportunity to provide the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) of the Chilean Navy with an Automated Voluntary Observing System (AVOS).

The Voluntary Observing Ships' program (VOS) is an international initiative by which ocean-going ships are recruited by National Meteorological services to record and transmit shipboard weather. Until recently VOS reports were manually compiled and transmitted so observation bias and input error were introduced. In order to improve VOS data collection, AXYS and Environment Canada have jointly developed the Automatic Voluntary Observing Ships System (AVOS™). AVOS™ is an automated weather station that regularly transmits VOS reports. Errors and standard reporting biases are minimized through the use of touch screen technology, with intuitive software and automated quality control protocols for observer entered data.

"We're pleased to adapt our proven and reliable AVOS system to new markets and customers, such as SHOA" said Harry Weiler, President of AXYS Technologies Inc..

Installation of the AVOS system is anticipate completion before March 2005 on board the R/V AGOR 60 Vidal Gormaz (former US Navy AGOR 10 Thomas Washington ).

AXYS sells and distributes meteorological, navigational and oceanographic systems to customers worldwide. For further information contact AXYS Technologies Inc. by email at info@axystechnologies.com or on the web: www.axystechnologies.com.

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