Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Landsat 5 Earth imaging operations have been suspended for an additional 90 days while the U.S. Geological Survey Flight Operations Team (FOT) continues to investigate options for the resumption of imaging. Landsat 5 imaging was halted in November 2011 when an electronic component vital to transmission of the satellite’s Thematic Mapper (TM) data began showing
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software development company and Gas Technology Institute (GTI), a research, development and training organization for the natural gas industry and energy markets, have partnered to develop an HCA application for the gas transmission pipeline industry.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting this week at the 2012 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C. in booth #401. This year the company celebrates its 20th anniversary, a milestone that is both exciting and reassuring.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Intergraph announces that the Russian State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (SRCAMB) in Obolensk has implemented both ERDAS IMAGINE and ERDAS APOLLO to help support its spatial-temporal approach for processing data related to infectious diseases and conduct risk analysis of biologically hazardous objects. NeoGeography R&D Group and Navgeocom, authorized Intergraph Geospatial resellers in
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL) has implemented ProjectWise, Bentley’s collaboration and work-sharing platform, to facilitate the design, construction, and ongoing capacity expansion of its recently commissioned 6 million metric ton refinery in Bina, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Australian-owned AEROmetrex and New-Zealand company Hawkeye UAV, pioneer in commercial Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations have signed a distributor agreement for AEROmetrex to market Hawkeye-UAV technology and imagery throughout Australia. The range of activities to be undertaken by AEROmetrex includes sales of the RQ-84Z AreoHawk UAV system as well as technical support, assistance with training
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Socium is pleased to announce that it has been successfully selected for the Software as a Service lot of the Government Procurement Service’s G-Cloud ITT. The opportunity to tender was published on the 18th October 2011 and following a successful bid, Socium’s Online Validation Service has been selected as an approved service on the G-Cloud
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Northern Ireland is setting up a £9m contract for an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS). It is aimed at correcting shortcomings in the existing GIS and its Land Parcel Information System function, which have been in place since December 2004. The department said the system is also intended
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new service of access to spatial data “Express. Kosmosnimki” started to operate in test mode. The service was created by ScanEx specialists to streamline and expedite spatial data delivery to the end-user’s operations environment. Desktop GIS application can be such an environment (Mapinfo, ArcMap, Gismeteo, GlobalMapper, etc.) or Web-GIS applications, such as ArcGIS API,
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Trimble introduced a new cloud-based solution that provides on-road supply chain visibility to enhance efficiency for the transport and logistics industry in India—Trimble® trako Visual Cargo. With standard, easy-to-use application process interfaces (API), shippers can seamlessly integrate Visual Cargo with its ERP/TMS system and vehicle location data from the Trimble trako Fleet Management solution to
