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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Stout and Sensibility: Program Chair Uses GIS to Map Consumption

Just as remote sensors are used to detect climate change, taste buds serve to sense delectable libations. So what happens when the twain shall meet? American Sentinel University’s Dr. Stephen McElroy, GIS program chair, participated in Mountain Sun’s Stout Month to find out.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Europe’s Galileo Returns First Ground Position

Europe’s new age of satellite navigation has passed a historic milestone – the very first determination of a ground location using the four Galileo satellites currently in orbit together with their ground facilities. This fundamental step confirms the Galileo system works as planned.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Ordnance Survey and UK Location Programme Release Map-based Search Tool for data.gov.uk as Open Source

Over the last couple of years Ordnance Survey has been working on a collaborative project with UK Location Programme and Cabinet Office to implement map-based tools, making it easier for users to search and preview public location datasets available on data.gov.uk. The project was completed to further enable the publication of location datasets in support

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Intermap Technologies Reports 2012 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results

Intermap Technologies Corporation (“Intermap” or the “Company”) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. A conference call will be held today, March 11th, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Moalajah Improves Project Decisions with SuperGIS e-Map Application

Supergeo helps Moalajah develop e-map application system to integrate, manage, and distribute a mass of spatial data and analysis for improving productivity and decision-making throughout the organization.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Chinese Firm GeoStar Purchases SimActive Software

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Chinese firm GeoStar has purchased its Correlator3D™ product. The software will be used to generate surface and terrain models, orthophotos and mosaics.  The transaction was brokered by Vexcel Spatial Information Technical Co. Ltd. (Vexcel-China), SimActive’s partner in China.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Esri and GeoDecisions Empower Insurance Claims Workers

Esri, the world-leading provider of location analytics and GIS software, and GeoDecisions, an Esri gold-level partner, have aligned to empower insurance organizations with performance optimization from the office to the field. Working together, the two companies are creating solutions that allow insurers to track events, such as inclement weather and other natural disasters, so they

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Answer the “Where” in Your Enterprise Data

Esri Location Analytics enables organizations to maximize data and applications by revealing the where in their corporate data. Esri Location Analytics extends the value of traditional enterprise applications by incorporating GIS to help you visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data. It consists of a scalable platform that works in the cloud, on mobile devices,

Monday, March 11th, 2013

ScanEx Offers Express.Kosmosnimki Service for Access to Satellite Images of Russia as a Service

ScanEx RDC specialists took part in the 14th All-Russian Scientific Conference  “Geoinformatics in Oil and Gas Industry” (February 19-21). The report “Express.Kosmosnimki: access to satellite imagery data at unprecedented price” was delivered at its plenary session on February 20.