Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Safe Software, makers of FME and the leaders in spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of FME 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which features compatibility with Esri’s newly released ArcGIS 10.1 and support of Autodesk’s 2013 version of AutoCAD Map 3D. FME 2012 SP3’s timely support of the latest versions of these industry-leading
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of exactView-1 at UTC 06:41:39 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 800km by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Esri Canada today announced that Calgary Co-op, one of the largest retail co-operatives in North America, will leverage the Esri Business Analyst (Canadian Edition) solution to improve strategic planning. Powered by Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology combined with extensive demographic and segmentation information, the solution will enable the retailer to efficiently map their stores, integrate
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today the Trimble® Positions™ Mobile extension – a new streamlined choice for integrating Trimble’s GNSS professional field solutions and data verification into the Esri ArcGIS for Windows Mobile environment.
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard. The GeoServices REST Application Programming Interface (API) provides a standard way for web clients to communicate with geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) servers, based on Representational State Transfer (REST) principles.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
For the first time, about 70 percent of a country has been mapped using an advanced remote sensing technique known as hyperspectral imaging. In order to assist Afghanistan in understanding their abundant natural resources, in particular the development of an economically viable minerals market, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Defense Task Force
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Advanced mine monitoring system is helping geotechnical engineers predict potentially dangerous pit movements at the largest goldmine in Latin America. Installed at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Minera Yanacocha gold mine in northern Peru, 3D Laser Mapping’s SiteMonitor system continuously monitors one of the six active pits. Using state of the art laser scanners the system can
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
1Spatial is pleased to announce that the company has been selected as a specialist consultant for Data Standards and Quality by the Environment Agency. The appointment is in relation to its framework contract “Support for licensing public sector information and undertaking intellectual property reviews”.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
URISA’s GISCorps is pleased to announce its milestone 100th mission. Since GISCorps was founded in 2003, 362 GISCorps volunteers have been deployed to 100 projects in 46 countries. They have collectively contributed over 11,500 hours to these projects. The deployed volunteers come from 35 countries.
Monday, July 16th, 2012
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that aerial surveying company Bluesky International has purchased a state-of-the- art airborne mapping system, which includes an ALTM lidar sensor as well as a fully integrated long-wave infrared thermal sensor and high-resolution ortho camera.
