Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Osimo City Hall in Italy selected SuperGIS Desktop 3 to build up its professional GIS platform, which assists the staff of the departments in effectively editing, analyzing, querying, and managing spatial data, and eventually facilitating the data usability and integration. Located in the province of Ancona, Italy, Osimo is a town of
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
SuperSurv 3.0, released by SuperGeo Technologies, support bilingual user interface, traditional Chinese and English, and global coordinate system. SuperSurv is the mobile survey system operated on Android mobile device. SuperSurv 3.0 focuses on the convenience of data collection in field survey and supports to display base map in SGT format and Web map services. Users can
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Kari J. Craun and Herbert W. Stoughton have been named the 2012 ASPRS Fellow Award winners. The ASPRS designation of Fellow is conferred on active Society members who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences (photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying, geographic information systems, and related disciplines). The designation of
Monday, February 6th, 2012
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that IIC Technologies has purchased multiple licenses of its Correlator3D™ product. The transaction was brokered by Groupe SCE India, SimActive’s partner in India. “The high throughput and quality expected from Correlator3D™ puts us in a better position to undertake more challenging projects”, said
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Glynn Rhinehart has been named president of Fugro Chance Inc., which has 400 employees in Lafayette and Houston. Rhinehart has been with Fugro for 17 years, most recently as president of John Chance Land Surveys, Inc. which provides land surveying and aerial LiDAR mapping services to the oil and gas, railroad, and electric transmission industries throughout
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad plans to invest $3.9 billion in upgrades to its network this year. The railroad said Wednesday that its capital spending plan is $400 million bigger than its 2011 budget of $3.5 billion. Overall, the nation’s major freight railroads, which include BNSF, plan to spend about $13 billion this year, up
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Carntogher Community Association is working in collaboration with the Friends of Ballynahone Bog to deliver the ‘ENVISION’ project. The objective of the project is to collate and present the heritage assets of a rural community for the benefit of the local community and for the advancement of a successful rural economy in south Derry. These
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
In total, 3 contracts were signed: the contract signed with OHB System AG (DE) comprising 8 satellites for an amount in the order of €250 million. A second contract was signed with Arianespace (FR) for a booking option of up to 3 launches using Ariane 5 (booking fee of €30 million). A third contract was
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
GeoDigital, the world leader in LiDAR and imaging technology, demonstrated its combined Grid^Intel Online (GIO) and WorkStudio solution last week during DistribuTECH at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The GIO to WorkStudio process represents the industry’s first complete, end-to-end solution to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) vegetation and engineering
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani today announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency.
