Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Cambridge engineering design and information management solutions company AVEVA has acquired the software division of laser scanning firm Z+F UK. The move follows a long and successful partnership between the two companies – and allows AVEVA to expand its offering in the 3D data capture market. “There is no let-up in the need to extend the life
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Location solutions company Ubisense has bought a geospatial consultancy firm – based in the same building in Cambridge – for £2.4 million. It has acquired Realworld OO Systems – the UK subsidiary of Realworld Holding – which shares its St Andrew’s House premises in St Andrew’s Road. The cash consideration consists of £1.25 million on completion and
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Do wind farms drive down the prices of nearby homes? That question is at the heart of a potentially precedent-setting two-day property value review, which began Tuesday in eastern Ontario. The complainants, Ed and Gail Kenney, a couple from Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ont., are asking the province’s Assessment Review Board to lower their property tax assessment
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The Metropolitan Police has released a list of every murder case in London for the last five years. Click on a borough to see how many murders took place. Read More
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
KISTERS presented its final results of the Surface Water Interoperability Experiments #1 and #3 to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Boulder, CO this past week. The end result of this work was KiWIS (KISTERS Web Interoperability Solution), the first commercially available and robust service module on the market. Used in combination with WISKI or
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Westernport Water, a utility in the state of Victoria, Australia, is using Bentley’s WaterGEMS water distribution modeling software, integrated with Open Spatial’s geographic information system (GIS) and Control Microsystems’ supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA), to cost-effectively operate and manage more than $43 million in water assets. The SCADA system
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has concluded the second phase of a landmark trial conducted in partnership with Murdoch University that aims to determine if unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are a cost-effective, capable alternative to manned assets for surveying marine mammals. During the two-week operation, Insitu Pacific’s ScanEagle UAS
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Innovyze today announced the worldwide availability of the V4.0 generation of CapPlan Water, once again raising the bar for advanced business analytics solutions for water supply and distribution systems. Running on Innovyze’s industry-leading GIS-centric InfoWater package, the newest release is specifically designed to address user feedback by incorporating valuable capabilities that further optimize the replacement
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The inaugural ceremony of World Space Week (WSW)-2011, organized by Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), was held on Tuesday, 04 Oct 2011 at National Center for Remote Sensing & Geo Informatics (NCRG) Suparco HQs, Karachi. Read More
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Russia’s global navigation satellite system Glonass is now fully operational and can provide global cover. The 24th satellite in the system was successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center outside Arkhangelsk and put into orbit in the early hours of Monday, NTV writes. Read More
