Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies shared that NAVAIDS, a GPS and survey company based in Perth, Australia, selected SuperPad 3– the fully-functional mobile GIS software, for the professional project services. The procurement is contributed by Cody Corp., SuperGeo’s distributor in Australia.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The management of access rights to services and data is increasingly becoming a key requirement, both in service-based spatial data infrastructures as well as company-wide enterprise solutions. con terra GmbH has developed sdi.suite securityManager specifically for these tasks. It limits access to authorized users, filters content according to individual access rights and provides extensive functionality
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
AeroGRID has signed a data distribution agreement with swisstopo, the Swiss national mapping agency. Under the agreement AeroGRID will provide access to aerial imagery of the whole of Switzerland via its WMS server. AeroGRID now hosts over 1.5 million square kilometres, of continuous aerial survey coverage on its WMS web server and is working actively
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce LAS 1.4, a new release of the open file format for lidar data storage and delivery. ASPRS has been maintaining and updating this widely used specification since its inception in 2001.
Monday, November 21st, 2011
BlomSTREET is a collection of georeferenced, high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic images that are photographed on street-level. The camera equipment used is mounted on the roof of a specially equipped car taking an image every five meters on average in the collection process. The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with
Monday, November 21st, 2011
An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project’, designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula’s historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Intergraph has unveiled a best-of-breed spatial data infrastructure (SDI) utilising ERDAS’ data management technologies. This includes uniting its proven GeoMedia® SDI suite with the superior data management capabilities of ERDAS APOLLO. Addressing the demand for geospatial information and services among GIS and non-GIS users, the combined package delivers a geospatial management platform that enables direct
Monday, November 21st, 2011
The government is set to invest millions in the construction industry to encourage the take-up of Building Information Modelling.BIM systems see all parties working on a project enter data into a central system streamlining communication and potentially making large financial savings and more effective buildings. It forms a core part of the government’s construction strategy
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has stopped acquiring images from the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite due to a rapidly degrading electronic component.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Vietnam is planning to spend over $600 million for its planned space centre in 2018. Under the plan, the Vietnam Space Centre, covering an area of nine hectares at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Hanoi, will specialise in researching and producing small satellites to be used in domestic weather forecast, geodesy, exploration, radio- television broadcast and
