Monday, January 16th, 2012
Bricsnet FM America, Inc. and MABEC Group, Inc. today formalized a strategic alliance to create a bi-directional data exchange between cloud-based BIM databases and Bricsnet, the corporate real estate/facilities management tool. “Data exchange between Building Information Models and Geospatial Information Systems will greatly increase the ability of Integrated Workplace Management Systems to improve productivity for corporate
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $238 million contract for production of the third and fourth satellites in the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation, known as GPS III. The acquisition of the next two GPS III satellites at one time will allow the Lockheed Martin-led team to maximize efficiencies
Friday, January 13th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Zayed University has purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD for effective GIS learning and research. Founded in 1988 and located in Dubai, UAE, Zayed University is established with the mission of providing the quality educational services and researches. The university comprises the collages of Arts, Sciences, Business, Communication
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Possibility to carry out space imagery of the Extreme North areas in the conditions of insufficient illumination has been confirmed. In late December 2011 ScanEx Research & Development Center conducted satellite imagery of the Oriental Angel injured ship, thrown onto the coast of the Chukot Peninsula (62.5 degrees of north latitude). Elevation indicating level of illumination constituted
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Capping a record year which saw renewed confidence in Alberta’s oil patch, for the first time in provincial history, Alberta has exceeded $3 billion in land sales for a calendar year. Revenues for the final calendar year sale of provincial petroleum and natural gas mineral leases and licenses, also known as land sales, were $145,621,531.32.
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Depiction Inc was recently awarded a contract to provide a version of depiction to be used with RealWorld – a 3D simulation tool that was developed for the military by DARPA to provide a rapid mission rehearsal capability. Depiction will be used to assist the user in collecting information in a 2D environment and then
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Geoimage is pleased to announce that it will be distributing NEXTMap products in Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the Pacific countries after signing an agreement with Intermap Technologies. Intermap collects elevation data aerially, using aircraft equipped with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technology and supplements this with satellite acquired data to generate uniform, high-resolution
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
HOK is the U.S. Green Building Council’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a facility targeting LEED Platinum certification that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and children’s center devastated by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti and killed 316,000 people two years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010. The project seeks to provide a safe, healthy home for
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Clark Labs is pleased to announce the upcoming release of its 17th version of the IDRISI geospatial software for monitoring and modeling the Earth system. The Selva software incorporates major revisions to IDRISI’s Land Change Modeler and Earth Trends Modeler applications. It also includes a variety of new analytical techniques, optimizations to current modules and
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Over the next five years, the Bavarian Agency for Surveying and Geographic Information (Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation Bayern (LVG)) will equip all of their Cadastral Offices with the latest total station technology from Leica Geosystems. The LVG has 51 state survey offices with 22 satellite offices in Bavaria, which between them manage and continuously
