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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

GeoEye Completes Critical Milestone for the EnhancedView Program

GeoEye, Inc., a leading provider of geospatial information and insight, announced that it has successfully passed a major milestone for the development of the GeoEye-2 satellite under the EnhancedView program. GeoEye’s completion of this milestone triggers the $111 million cost-share payment from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). This critical milestone demonstrates the company’s capabilities to

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Prestigious Award Highlights Intergraph Customers at Hexagon 2012

Intergraph SG&I announced the winners of the 2012 Icon Awards today during keynote presentations at Hexagon 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Icon Awards are Intergraph SG&I’s most prestigious honor for innovative organizations utilizing Intergraph’s solutions.

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Intergraph® Announces OEM Agreement with MapText, Inc.

Intergraph announces it has signed an OEM agreement with MapText, Inc., the leading label-placement solutions provider for local, state and national government mapping agencies worldwide. Through the agreement, MapText’s GeoLabel Pro product will be fully embedded into the Intergraph GeoMedia Desktop product line, enhancing the overall labeling capabilities within the product suite. As such, users

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Intergraph Highlights Advanced Point Cloud Capabilities at Hexagon 2012

At the Hexagon 2012 conference, Intergraph is demonstrating a new technology that enables you to fully leverage the wealth of information in point cloud data. The centerpiece of the new functionality is the augmented viewing capability embedded in ERDAS IMAGINE, which allows users to simultaneously view LiDAR spatially linked in 2D, 3D and as a

Monday, June 4th, 2012

Russia Significantly Expands Use of DigitalGlobe Imagery to Help Protect Country’s Vast Forests

DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced it will significantly expand delivery of high-resolution imagery to Roslesinforg, a division of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia.

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Intergraph Appoints T-Kartor as Channel Partner in Sweden

Intergraph announces the appointment of T-Kartor as a channel partner in Sweden. As a long-term distributor of ERDAS products, T-Kartor’s role is being expanded in the region to provide sales and customer support for the full Intergraph Geospatial portfolio. “Since Intergraph became a part of Hexagon, we have been focusing on integrating ERDAS products into the

Friday, June 1st, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard. This document specifies an extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

New Partners and Prizes in the GMES Masters 2012

The GMES Masters competition was inaugurated in 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and T-Systems with the support of the European Commission. For this year’s iteration, two additional industry leaders – European Space Imaging GmbH and Astrium Services – have joined the competition

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Esri Canada Recognizes Manitoba Hydro for Seamless, Province-Wide Property Parcel Fabric

Utilities need an accurate and consistent basemap of property data to support numerous processes including network planning, design, construction, operation and facility retirement. While federal, provincial and municipal governments provide parcel information, these datasets have varying schemas, degrees of accuracy and data lineage. To address this challenge, Manitoba Hydro, the province’s major energy utility, created

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

SimActive Completes RADARSAT-2 Study for DSM Generation

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the completion of a study for the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada on digital surface model (DSM) generation from RADARSAT-2 imagery using Correlator3D™.  The purpose of the project was to determine the maximum achievable accuracy over mixed terrain such as