Thursday, October 10th, 2013
James Eddy, Technical Director of aerial survey specialist Bluesky, has been conferred the honorary title and status of Industrial Associate by the University of Leicester (UK). As Bluesky’s technical innovator James has been working in partnership with the University of Leicester on a number of projects including research into the development of a new system
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
URISA is pleased to announce the Second Edition of its publication, “Model GIS Job Descriptions” as an electronic publication. The publication provides valuable information for individuals who hire GIS staff. The publication, authored by J. Allison Butler, provides guidance to GIS managers in how to draft job descriptions and to human resource professionals by describing
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Starting from 2012 ScanEx RDC specialists have been working to identify illegal shipping within marine protected natural areas. Several test areas in the Arctic Region and the Far East have been chosen to evaluate the effectiveness of satellite data for monitoring the navigation situation within the reserve. One of the test zones was the “Komandorsky”
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
A team of GeoVation winners from Staffordshire and West Midlands (SWM) Probation Trust have launched a new app to help the public choose what Community Payback work criminals do. The new app called ‘Get Community Payback’ was one of four winners in the 2012 GeoVation Challenge, under the theme of transforming Britain’s neighbourhoods. The successful
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Trimble introduced today the latest version of its deformation monitoring software–Trimble 4D Control version 4.2. The new version of the monitoring software delivers enhanced communications with the Trimble NetR9 and new NetR9 Ti-M GNSS receiver, REF TEK seismic sensors and the Trimble S8 total station. It also supports geotechnical sensors, weather stations, level data and
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has launched two new TerraSAR-X imaging modes. The enhanced imaging capabilities facilitate the delivery of higher resolution imagery as well as the coverage of larger areas.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Ordnance Survey is celebrating two years of its addressing product range, ‘AddressBase’ by sharing its successes since its launch. AddressBase, AddressBase Plus and AddressBase Premium are the three products available and are a source of address data that combines information from local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG), Ordnance Survey’s
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Trimble announced today new additions to its aerial imaging portfolio –the Trimble AX60, a new airborne LIDAR system; and an updated version of its Inpho processing software. The announcement was made today at INTERGEO 2013, the world’s largest conference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
1Spatial, Gold Sponsors and exhibitors at GIS Ireland will be exploring some of the key issues around specific digital landscape models (DLM), digital cartographic models (DCM) and how the company is providing the industry with an innovative solution at the conference this month. The presentation entitled ?Automated Generalisation: The Holy Grail for NMCAs will be
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Leica Geosystems strengthens its market position in airborne surveying through Hexagon’s acquisition of Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB), a provider of airborne laser survey systems for hydrographic and topographic surveys.
