Monday, October 31st, 2011
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released the industry’s first Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China. The new model provides a fully probabilistic approach for determining the likelihood of losses to the country’s major crops: corn, cotton, rapeseed, rice, soybeans, and wheat. The model captures the significant effects that weather-related perils have
Monday, October 31st, 2011
A leader in networked communications, sensing and surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic warfare, navigation, air traffic solutions and information systems, Exelis also enjoys growing positions in cyber security, composite aerostructures, and logistics and technical services. Legacy core strengths include tactical radios, night vision and soldier-protection systems that continue to evolve and serve the warfighter. Non-technical users may
Monday, October 31st, 2011
The latest addition to the Esri education community’s GIS Careers Video series features GIS analyst and forester Chris Ferner. The video highlights Ferner’s work as she discusses the benefits of using GIS and related technologies in her position with the Colorado State Forest Service.
Monday, October 31st, 2011
NAVTEQ is supplying the map data and additional content such as 3D Landmarks to power the NDrive navigation application for smartphones which has recently been launched in Russia.
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Fugro OSAE GmbH has been awarded a € 2.3 million hydrographic survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS). The survey is part of the MAREANO project and will encompass an area over 12,000km² in the Barents Sea. The area is located 200km offshore in the northern-most part of Norway, near the Russian border, in water
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Apple has apparently bought its third mapping company, the Sweden-based C3 Technologies. The company’s site has been taken down. C3 provides 3D mapping (a la Bing Maps or Google Earth) for a number of other publishers such as Nokia (Ovi Maps) and UK directory publisher Yell. (In the wake of this transaction Nokia will probably
Monday, October 31st, 2011
In order to satisfy the demanding and specific requirements of the tunnel and cavity surveyor optimally, was the consolidation of the respective strengths of SOKKIA and GEODATA a logical step. This makes it possible to offer this demanding market segment tailored and specific solutions. The result is a flexible, modular, integrated and complete survey solution that building
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. announced that six of its value added resellers (VARs) — based in the Americas and Europe — are the first Autodesk partners to achieve Platinum Tier status, the highest level of achievement within the Autodesk Partner Program. Created in April 2011, the Platinum Tier level recognizes Autodesk partners who deliver the highest levels
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Just announced are the winners of the eighth Galileo Masters European Satellite Navigation Competition and the new GMES Masters European Earth Monitoring Competition, both supported by ESA. Together with the two overall winners, eight Galileo Masters special topic prizes, five GMES Masters challenge prizes and 23 regional prizes were awarded at the ceremony in Munich,
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Real estate cadastral graphical data related to cadastral parcels, buildings and names can be viewed on the Geoportal for the areas where the digital cadastral plans are put into the official use. Data for 1 094 cadastral municipalities and parts of cadastral municipalities are currently published, covering 3 642 073 cadastral parcels and 1 050 073
