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Monday, July 29th, 2013

Street Factory Awarded as Most Valuable Geo-information Product

Astrium Services is pleased to announce that its advanced 3D urban mapping solution, Street Factory, has received the prize of the most valuable product in geo-information field 2012, delivered during the World Geospatial Developers Conference (WGDC), hold in Beijing last May. The WGDC is the largest and the most practical developer conference in China and

Monday, July 29th, 2013

ASPRS Launches First eBook – Manual of Airborne Topographic Lidar

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first eBook on the Kindle platform.  “Making the Manual available as an eBook gives customers the option to have it available at their fingertips on either a Kindle or on another device with a Kindle app,” said ASPRS

Friday, July 26th, 2013

MAPPS Elects New Officers and Directors, Lower Becomes President

MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, elected new officers and members of its Board of Directors to serve the association for 2013-2014.

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Skolkovo Space Business Cluster Leads Russia’s Space Business

Today space is one of the few areas in which Russian engineers and scientists remain competitive. The structure of the industry is such that the first fiddle in it is played by state agencies. Commercially crippled federal state unitary enterprises and joint stock companies controlled by the government occupy most of the Russian space market.

Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Exprodat Works with PetroSkills in Houston for August 2013 Petroleum GIS Courses

Exprodat, the oil and gas services, software and training supplier, has announced a series of public petroleum ArcGIS training courses in Houston, Texas, which will take place at the PetroSkills dedicated training facilities.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Blue Marble Releases Global Mapper SDK v14.2 Featuring New Volume Calculation Functions

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit (SDK) version 14.2. This release offers many new features and functions for working with volume calculations, LiDAR data, multi-band imagery and much more. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

MDA to Provide Mobile Ground System Tracking Antenna to US Naval Research Laboratory

MDA Information Systems LLC has announced today that it has signed a contract to provide the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with a mobile ground system tracking antenna in support of the Coalition Tactical Awareness and Response (CTAR) program. This antenna can receive imagery from multiple commercial satellites and be rapidly deployed in any area of

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

URISA 2013 Election Results Announced

URISA, The Association for GIS Professionals, is pleased to announce the results of its 2013 Board of Directors’ Election. Carl Anderson will become President-Elect of the association and Jochen Albrecht, Amy Esnard and Ashley Hitt will begin their terms as members of the Board of Directors, at the close of GIS-Pro 2013: URISA’s 51st Annual

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

MAPPS Establishes Aviation Legal Plan, Retains Legal Counsel for Aerial Acquisition Issues

MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with The Aviation Law Firm, based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, to provide legal services for the purpose of addressing legal issues related to aerial acquisition activities affecting the association and its membership.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Astrium Services Rewards Innovative Radar Application Ideas

Astrium Services is supporting the Copernicus Masters 2013 program through the announcement of the Radar Challenge focusing on the use of high-resolution radar satellite data. This challenge invites the submission of truly innovative ideas building on the unique features of TerraSAR-X data and offering a clear benefit e.g. for the environment, security, or specific industries.