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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 Supports Fishery Resource Management in West Africa

SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 and SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 recently have been employed by Fisheries Commissions in Ghana and Liberia based on the recommendations of Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services at the University of Ghana. SuperGIS technology enables the personnel at the Fisheries Commissions to develop a GIS system for fishery resource analyses

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Ordnance Survey Provides Expertise Internationally

Ordnance Survey is launching a new international service to help other countries around the world un-tap the multi-million pound potential of accurate geographic information (GI). The national mapping agency of Great Britain stands at the forefront globally of advances in geospatial management. And now, supporting the Government’s drive to share and promote the nation’s knowledge

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Leica GeoMoS 5.3 – Monitoring Process is Now Integrated as a Secure Windows Service

Leica GeoMoS, the market-leading software for monitoring applications, has been updated to version 5.3. In order to enable a permanent monitoring process, the latest version provides the best possible integration into a modern and high secure IT infrastructure as a Windows Service. For large monitoring installations using GNSS sensors and multiple total stations with hundreds

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

British Columbia Receives Special Achievement Award for Exceptional Application of Geospatial Technology

Esri Canada congratulates the Province of British Columbia for receiving the Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award yesterday at the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). This award acknowledges the Province’s vision, leadership and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The Province has created and maintains a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

exactView-1 Satellite Operational in Orbit

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite, which was built by the Company under contract to prime contractor COM DEV Canada for exactEarth.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

SAG Awards at Esri UC Honor Outstanding Applications of Geospatial Technology

Esri recognized more than 170 organizations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards ceremony yesterday at the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

USGS Helps Debut New Technology to Improve Access and Use of Earth Science Data

Researchers investigating global issues now have an easy method for finding and using earth science data through a new technology developed by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE. Understanding broad and complex environmental issues, for example climate change, increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive datasets. But the amount of collected

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Esri and DigitalGlobe Sign Multi-Year Agreement

DigitalGlobe today announced that Esri has licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap imagery layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California. The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri’s existing imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaborative content management system. Later

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Optech Wins JALBTCX 2012 Awards

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Optech has been presented with two awards from the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX): the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award, and the 532 Award. The Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Esri Presents Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle with Making a Difference Award

Esri today announced that the City and County of Honolulu was awarded one of the company’s annual Making a Difference Awards. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle was honored for his administration’s ground-breaking use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the city’s urban planning efforts.