Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
The government of Panama signed a memorandum of understanding with Esri to leverage geospatial technology in support of national development. The agreement affirms Panama’s recognition of the value of geographic information systems (GIS) in improving decision making and infrastructure management throughout the country. Esri president Jack Dangermond and Eduardo E. Jaén, general administrator of Panama’s
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Intergraph Corporation announces the availability of Live Link, connecting GeoMedia and ERDAS IMAGINE. For the first time, users can leverage GeoMedia’s rich set of vector handling tools and ERDAS IMAGINE’s raster capabilities to support synchronized data sharing, viewing, editing, updating, and analysis. “Users can now enjoy truly connected image processing and GIS products from a single provider, not
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Detailed satellite images of the Costa Concordia liner wreck site in Tyrrhenian Sea were acquired. Data from EROS A (resolution – 1.9 m) and EROS B (0.7 m) were received at “UniScan” stations in Russia on January 17 and 20. The images were processed by ScanEx RDC specialists and in near real-time mode delivered to
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Trimble introduced today cloud-based data management for its SiteFID® Gas Monitoring solution used in the environmental services market–the Trimble® Connected Community – Environmental. The Connected Community – Environmental provides real-time management and deployment of SiteFID landfill gas surface monitoring data. It allows field monitoring data to be uploaded to the cloud and stored in a
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
3D Laser Mapping has appointed Jon Chicken as Managing Director. Jon will take on responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Nottingham based supplier of laser scanning hardware and software and will manage the company’s continued worldwide expansion. 3D Laser Mapping founder, Dr Graham Hunter, will meanwhile take on the position of Executive Chairman. Dr
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
PCI Geomatics has announced it delivered a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Aerial processing system to Société Topographie Informatique (STI), a leading Aerial Surveying firm based in Evry, France. The GXL Aerial system will allow STI to orthorectify and mosaic thousands of UltraCam images per day through the power of distributed processing that leverages Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Land and Property Services (LPS) recently awarded a contract through open tender to Esri Ireland to deliver the technical component of the Northern Ireland Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).The new system will incorporate a catalogue of Open Standards web services, a web based Geoportal and interactive map viewing facilities.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
e-on software, makers of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, today announced the immediate availability of the French and German versions of its product line for 3D Enthusiasts and 3D Artists: Vue 10 Pioneer & Theme Packs, Vue 3D Superhero, Vue 10 Frontier, Vue 10 Esprit, Vue 10 Studio and Vue 10 Complete. Read More
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) opens all of its topographic datasets on 1 May 2012 to be used freely and free of licence fee by companies and private citizens. A Decree on fees charged by the NLS was issued on 21 December 2011, and this is estimated to substantially increase the use of map data.
