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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Golden Software Announces Full User’s Guides for Strater 3 and Voxler 3

Golden Software, Inc., the leading developer of affordable scientific graphics software, announces the availability for Strater 3 and Voxler 3 users to purchase a full User’s Guide in PDF format. A full user’s guide has been one of the most frequently requested items of Strater and Voxler users. The guides are fully formatted and intuitively

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 4 Now Available to Download

ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 4 (SP4) is now available from the Esri Support Center. This service pack contains several performance improvements and maintenance fixes and is available for the following languages:

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Fires in South Russia

Thermal spots – probable fire blazes – are detected by satellites in different areas of South and North-Caucasus Federal Districts. Thermal spots are detected using MODIS sensors onboard Terra and Aqua satellites and analyzed based on detailed space images of SPOT 4, received at the Moscow UniScan™ station of ScanEx RDC ИТЦ on March 18-20.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Balfour Beatty Signs Agreement with Autodesk to Expand Building Information Modeling Capabilities

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, and Autodesk, Inc.(NASDQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, have signed a three year, $12M agreement that will help Balfour Beatty expand its adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM).  The agreement, one of the first of its kind and size in the infrastructure industry,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Armajaro Trading Limited Selects Greenstone to Enhance Its Global Carbon Management Capability

Global soft commodity trading house and supply chain manager, Armajaro Trading Limited (“ATL”), is taking another important step to reduce its environmental impact and strengthen its commitment to being a responsible business leader. ATL, specialising in the sourcing and delivery of cocoa, coffee and sugar, has selected Greenstone Carbon Management to enable it to measure,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

SuperGeo Announces Collaboration with Geoconnect in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies announced its latest reseller in Australia, where Geoconnect is authorized to serve SuperGIS series software to domestic clients. Geoconnect provides a variety of GIS software and hardware such as GPS, GNNS, rugged computers, and related software to precisely carry out ground surveying and complete spatial data collection. The main clientele is from governments, enterprises,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Ordnance Survey Launches New Professional Accreditation Programme

Geographic information (GI) experts across the globe are being given an exciting opportunity to gain professional recognition from Ordnance Survey under a new accreditation scheme. The new professional accreditation programme will create a specialist network of GI experts who will work with the national mapping agency in supporting, and providing technical advice to government, commercial and

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Getmapping Hosts Maps for Aberystwyth University

Getmapping is providing a high performance WMS map data feed to the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES) at Aberystwyth University. The data includes OS Mapping, Getmapping high resolution aerial photography, colour infrared imagery, and elevation data. This comprehensive suite of data delivered via the Internet from Getmapping’s Data Centre is being used by

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Confidence in Climate Data: Using 3 Million-Year-Old Records

How do we understand what’s happening today by looking back millions of years? Scientists are looking at what climate conditions were like 3.3 to 3 million years ago, during a geologic period known as the Pliocene, and they are confident in the accuracy of their data. The Pliocene is the most recent period of sustained

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Esri Donation Supports Collaboration with OpenStreetMap Community

Esri president Jack Dangermond affirmed his commitment to making map content accessible to everyone with a monetary donation to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OpenStreetMap Foundation’s initiative, OpenStreetMap (OSM), strives to create and provide free geographic data, particularly street maps, for use worldwide. The mission of this nonprofit organization parallels Esri’s efforts to empower people to