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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Blue Marble Presents Paper at ELMF 2012 on LiDAR Post Processing in Global Mapper

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to have been selected to present a paper on post processing LiDAR data with Global Mapper at the European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Frost & Sullivan Names TerraGo Technologies Notable U.S. Defense Market Participant

Frost & Sullivan has named TerraGo Technologies a notable market participant in its recently released “Analysis of the U.S. Defense Geospatial Market” report.

Friday, December 7th, 2012

1Spatial Wins Ordnance Survey Of Great Britain (OSGB) Contract

1Spatial, which manages the world’s largest spatial data, has been awarded the, single source contract by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OSGB), under which its will supply software support and consultancy services to the Ordnance Survey’s Geospatial Data Management System (GDMS).

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Third Galileo Satellite Begins Transmitting Navigation Signal

Europe’s third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth. The two Galileo satellites launched last October have reached their final orbital position and are in the midst of testing.http://www.asmmag.com/components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/plugins/article/img/readmore.png); “>The third Galileo Flight Model, known as FM3, transmitted its first test navigation signal in the E1 band on 1 December,

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Bluesky Takes Ordnance Survey Mapping to New Heights

Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has taken UK mapping to the next level by adding height information to Ordnance Survey’s digital maps. Using detailed 3D models Bluesky has added a range of height attributes to more than 50 million buildings. The height values attributed by Bluesky to the map layers would, if added together, reach almost to

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

3-GIS to Exhibit and Present at the Esri Middle East and Africa User Conference

3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit in Booth #119 at the 2012 Esri Middle East and Africa User Conference and Expo.  The expo will be held December 10-12, 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company in Abu Dhabi, UAE.  3-GIS President, Tom Counts and 3-GIS Program Direction, Lee

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

2012 Pecora Awards Presented for Achievements in Earth Remote Sensing

The U.S. Geological Survey (a bureau of the Department of the Interior) and NASA presented the 2012 William T. Pecora awards for achievement in earth remote sensing to Gilberto Camara of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and Leung Tsang of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

OGC and CRCSI Working Together to Make Data Widely Available

The Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has joined forces with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) through the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The relationship with OGC will be especially strong with the CRCSI’s Spatial Infrastructures research program.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Optech Announces Release of New Pegasus HA500 ALTM for High Density, High Altitude Mapping

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the release of the Optech Pegasus HA500 ALTM, a purpose-built wide-area mapping sensor that is expressly focused on maximizing collection efficiency.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

EPA Appoints 11 New Members to the National Environmental Education Advisory Council

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has appointed 11 environmental education professionals to serve on the agency’s National Environmental Education Advisory Council (NEEAC). The National Environmental Education Advisory Council is comprised of representatives from organizations outside the federal government who provide EPA with advice and recommendations on environmental education. The council provides EPA