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Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Sokkia Announces New Total Station Series for Professionals – the FX

Sokkia announces a new reflectorless total station – the FX – that includes on-board MAGNET™ Field application software, a telematics-based communications module TSshield, and a long-range wireless communications system utilizing Bluetooth® Class 1 technology.

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

ProjectWise V8i and Bentley Navigator V8i Honored

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that ProjectWise V8i and Bentley Navigator V8i have each won a commercial 2012 Constructech Top Products award in the “Trusted Products” category. The award honors technology solutions that have demonstrated the greatest innovations geared toward the construction market. Products and solutions eligible for the Trusted Products category comprise core technology offerings

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Russia Plans to Install GLONASS Ground Support Stations in 34 countires

Russia plans to install ground support stations for its GLONASS global satellite positioning system in 34 countries across the globe, Russian Space Systems General Director and General Designer Yury Urlichich said.  “We are considering 34 countries in which the stations can be installed. There are a lot of such countries. Negotiations with Australia are likely

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Discover How to Achieve Mission Success at the Esri UC

The Esri UC is a special time for us. It’s when our team and the Esri user community come together to build solutions that strengthen operations and decision making. We are busily preparing for the 2012 conference. We’re building an agenda of sessions and face-to-face activities that will help geospatial professionals like you take new solutions

Friday, March 16th, 2012

OpenGeo Presentations at FOSS4G North America

OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, will have a strong showing at the inaugural2012 FOSS4G North America conference. With Gold Sponsor status, and eleven sessions on the program, OpenGeo is sure to make an impact at the conference. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial – North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference

Friday, March 16th, 2012

GIS Technology Offers New Predictive Analysis to Business

It isn’t often that managers can look to law enforcement for clues on how to more effectively do their work. But police are delivering an important lesson on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) by utilizing geospatial predictive analysis to find meth labs before criminals establish them.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Qbo Robot Dons ASUS 3D Sensor Crown for Intelligent Autonomy

Open-source robot project Qbo has gained a new set of sensors, in the shape of a custom ASUS Xtion tiara that allows the ‘bot to 3D map his environment, autonomously navigate and – most importantly – avoid obstacles. While Qbo already has twin HD webcam eyes and four ultrasonic sensors (two up front and two

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Youth and the City Forms Focus of Cities Alliance Call for Proposals to the Catalytic Fund

The Cities Alliance Secretariat has issued a second Call for Proposals to the Catalytic Fund (CATF) focused on the theme, “Youth and the City”. This is in recognition of the urgent need to address what is increasingly one of the most critical development challenges of our times, the ‘youth bulge’ in cities. The thematic focus on

Friday, March 16th, 2012

GeoVation Tackles a Coastal Challenge

As the first ever ‘total’ coastal path nears completion and gets ready for the official opening in May, the GeoVation Challenge has crossed the Severn Bridge to encourage the public, businesses, charities, groups, schools and universities to submit innovative ideas of how Wales can make the most of it.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Mapping Your Solar Potential… Bristol City Council and Blom UK

Bristol City Council have now gone ‘live’ and published an online map highlighting potential untapped revenue across the region. The map, freely available on the council’s website, shows the expected solar power generation if PV panels were fitted to building rooftops throughout Bristol. Produced in part by leading aerial survey specialist Blom, a map on this scale is