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Thursday, April 4th, 2013

UNIGIS Equips Universities, Students with Intergraph Geospatial Software

UNIGIS selected Intergraph’s geospatial education offerings to provide leading GIS, remote sensing and photogrammetry tools to its universities and enrolled students. UNIGIS, a network of universities cooperating in the design and delivery of distance learning in GIS, was founded in 1990 and currently includes sites in fourteen countries.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

UltraCam: 10 Years of Innovation in Aerial Mapping

The Microsoft UltraCam business unit is pleased to announce the 10-year anniversary of the UltraCam digital photogrammetric aerial mapping systems. Since the introduction of the UltraCamD in 2003, numerous and significant technological advancements have contributed to rapid adoption and widespread market acceptance of the product line.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Scottish Public Sector Organisations Continue to Benefit from New Mapping Agreement

Public sector organisations in Scotland will continue to have access to Ordnance Survey mapping data following an agreement between the Scottish Government and Ordnance Survey to renew the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA).

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Blue Marble Demonstrates How to Take 3D Analysis to the Next Level

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming SPAR International conference to showcase new LiDAR classification features in Global Mapper 14.1. This exciting event will be held on April 15th through the 18th in Colorado Springs, Colorado and will focus on new innovations in 3D data technology. Analyzing 3D data has recently emerged as

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Thierry Gregorius Joins Exprodat in Senior Strategic Consulting Role

Exprodat, the oil and gas services, software and training supplier, is extremely pleased to announce that Thierry Gregorius, formerly of Shell, has joined the company.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Using Volunteers for Enhanced Data Collection

The USGS is expanding the involvement of volunteers to enhance data collection about structures for The National Map. This program, known as The National Map Corps, focuses on encouraging citizens to collect data relating to structures by both adding new features and/or correcting existing data within The National Map database. These structures can include schools,

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Radar and Optical Satellite Images Helped Shipped to Reach Sabetta Port in Gulf of Ob

On March 26 the nuclear-powered ice-breaker “Taimyr” of the FSUE “Atomflot” successfully completed the escorting the cargo-vessel “Yuri Arshenevsky” brining construction loads to the transpolar Sabetta port on the Yamal peninsula (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area). Space images served as the source of updated information about ice situation along the route of the caravan, navigating through the

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Innovative Layer Added to OS MasterMap with the Launch of OS MasterMap Sites Layer

Ordnance Survey’s flagship, and world renowned dataset, OS MasterMap, has received an upgrade with the launch of a new layer, OS MasterMap Sites Layer. The new product will work alongside the existing layers providing users with an intelligent dataset to underpin decision making and data analytics.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

RapidEye is a Silver Sponsor at the International Forum “Integrated Geospatial Solutions – the Future of Information Technologies”

RapidEye – leading provider of quality high-resolution satellite imagery and derived geo-information products – will participate in the International Forum “Integrated Geospatial Solutions – the Future of Information Technologies” to be held in Moscow at the Atlas Park Hotel in April 17-19, 2013. RapidEye will be a Silver sponsor of the International Forum.

Sunday, March 31st, 2013

Earth Remote Sensing Data Continue to Help Saving Harp Seal Population

Operational satellite imagery help to arrange ship traffic around whelping grounds of harp seals in the White Sea and prevent death of animals. Images from satellites equipped with radar and detail optical sensors are received and processed by specialists of ScanEx RDC to produce and promptly transfer data to the Ice Operations Headquarters of the