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Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Manchester Climate Instruments Take a Ride on NASA’s Global Hawk

March 18, 2015 — The unmanned aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre, California, can fly at twice the height of Mount Everest and double the altitude of a commercial jet for more than a day at a time, travelling the equivalent of half of the Earth’s circumference in a single flight in an

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Improve Underground Utilities Management and Public Safety by 3D GIS

March 18, 2015 — Developed by Supergeo Technologies, SuperGIS 3D Earth Server is going to support underground utilities management. The breakthrough tech enables administrators to comprehend the distribution of underground utilities that cannot be seen in daily life and to arrange urban plans and make policies and decisions with full-scale perspective.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

GEOVISION Utilizes SuperGIS for Maritime and Land GIS Planning

March 18, 2015 — Supergeo Technologies Inc., the leading GIS software and solution provider, announces that GEOVISION, Nouvelle-Calédonie, selects cross-platform SuperGIS series products, SuperGIS Desktop, SuperSurv and SuperVeyor, to elevate its maritime and land data quality.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Maponics Reinforces Position in the Spatial Data Industry With the Acquisition of Certain Assets of Urban Mapping, Inc.

White River Juction, Vt., March 18, 2015 — Maponics, a leading provider of spatial data, today announced the acquisition of Urban Mapping’s Neighborhood product and related assets from Silicon Valley-based Urban Mapping, Inc. Urban Mapping is a geospatial web and data service company with more than 10 years of experience in precise mapping of neighborhood data.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Slagboom & Peeters Purchases Third UltraCam Eagle

Graz, Austria — March 18, 2015 — Dutch company Slagboom & Peeters has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Eagle digital aerial camera system. To achieve the best results in its typical projects, such as oil and gas, national mapping, and transportation, the company selected a 100mm lens for

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

A Lively Gathering for the 2015 Annual Indiana GIS Conference

March 18, 2015 — IGIC’s 2015 Annual Indiana GIS Conference, once again, presents an outstanding program of hands-on and classroom workshops, inspiring presentations, networking opportunities, and vendor exhibits.  Join over 300 of your colleagues for two days filled with presentations ranging from innovative applications and analysis techniques to community and historical mapping.  This conference is

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Blue Marble Releases GeoCalc SDK v7.1 with Tool for Creating Custom Geoid Models

Hallowell, Maine – March 18, 2015 — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the release of GeoCalc 7.1. This release features support for creating custom vertical transformation grid formats, added support for Magnetic Declination, and new DataSource search tools. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

​GAF Completed Extensive Fieldworks Campaign in Darfur, Sudan

March 17, 2015 — GAF AG has successfully accomplished the extensive fieldwork programme in its Darfur Natural Resources Mapping and Database Project carried out for the Darfur Land Commission (DLC). It is the so far largest comprehensive and most up-to-date inventory and capacity-building project on the natural resources and ecological potential of this 500,000 sqkm

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

National Geographic’s Trails Illustrated Map Line Will Be Available on Avenza’s PDF Maps App

TORONTO, ON, March 17, 2015 —  National Geographic Maps, celebrating 100 years as one of the most trusted names in cartography, will make available hundreds of maps from its Trails Illustrated line through Avenza Systems Inc.’s popular, award-winning PDF Maps app. The addition of these maps, the most popular outdoor recreation maps in North America, augments

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

President of the International Council for Science to visit Moscow

March 17, 2015 — The president of the International Council for Science (ICSU), Dr. Gordon McBean, is one of many highly anticipated speakers attending the International Geographical Union (IGU) regional conference in Moscow on 17-21 August.