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Monday, June 29th, 2009

Optimising Forest Production with Space Technology

Space and robotics technology have been combined to develop an advanced Precision Forestry Positioning System, which allows more efficient forest planning and harvesting. Read More

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Trimble UtilityCenter Software Selected by Two More Electric Utilities for Enterprise GIS Solution

Trimble announced today that two more electric utilities have selected its UtilityCenter® software as their enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) solution. Trimble UtilityCenter software tools allow electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities to automate their workflow and business processes to increase efficiency and improve productivity.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

DigitalGlobe Agreement with European Space Imaging and Space Imaging Middle East

DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that it has entered into a direct access agreement and strategic alliance relationship for sales, marketing and customer support, with European Space Imaging (EUSI) and Space Imaging Middle East (SIME).

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Timmons Group Releases Web LoGIStics for Flex

Timmons Group, a leader in Enterprise Geospatial products and services, is proud to announce the release of Web LoGIStics for Flex.  Web LoGIStics is designed for local governments and their internal and external constituents.

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Rutherford County Selects Fugro EarthData for 5-Year Mapping Contract

Rutherford County, Tennessee, recently awarded a 5-year geospatial services contract to Fugro EarthData, Inc. Under this open-ended contract, Fugro EarthData will provide updated orthoimagery, planimetric, and topographic mapping services to the county. Additional services may include oblique imagery, land use/land cover mapping, and emergency response mapping.

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Oltmans Construction Co. Advances ‘Green’ Practices with ‘High Performance Program’

Underlining its commitment to the mounting business and energy conservation goals of its clients and communities, Oltmans Construction Co. of Whittier, CA announces the formation of the “Oltmans High Performance Building Program” and the completion of three major projects being submitted for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

GMES/Kopernikus (Global Monitoring for Environment and Secutiry) Governance Workshop

GMES/Kopernikus (Global Monitoring for Environment and Secutiry) Governance Workshop – May 11, 2009 Brussels,

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Airborne Electromagnetic Data for Paterson North, Western Australia

Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) data for Paterson North, Western Australia will be released on 17 April 2009. These data were collected with line spacings of one, two and six kilometres. AEM data were acquired over exposures of the eastern Pillbara Block and Hamersley Basin, northern most Rudall Complex, Yeneena Basin and Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic sediments of

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Graphisoft Team Wins Grand Prize at Build Live Tokyo

PR – “Build Live Tokyo,” a competition aimed at raising awareness of BIM (Building Information Modeling), was held February 25-27. Build Live is the Japanese version of the international BIM Storm event. Graphisoft Japan was part of the Skunk Works team, led by Maeda Corporation, which won the Grand prize. 

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Penobscot Bay Media to Deploy a Hosted Version of InVision Portal

PR – Penobscot Bay Media LLC (PenBay), a GIS solutions company, has collaborated with Skygone Inc., a GIS hosting and managed services firm, to help bring PenBay’s In-Vision Portal (IVP) to market.  PenBay will deliver In-Vision Portal on Skygone’s Infrastructure On-Demand (IOD) framework, a flexible and cost-effective preconfigured hardware environment for robust GIS web applications.