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Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Australia’s Geoimage Appoints 5 New Staff Members

Geoimage has great pleasure in announcing the appointment of five new staff members to our ever growing company. As Geoimage is expanding in terms of our products offered, the geographies that we now reach and the market sectors that we are active in, our new staff bring their skills to support and grow our Sales, Image

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Astrium Signs Exclusive Pléiades Satellite Data Contract for China with Eastdawn

Astrium Services and Chinese provider of satellite data and value-added services, Beijing Eastdawn Information Technology (Eastdawn), have signed a partnership agreement to give Eastdawn access to Pléiades solutions and technologies. This three year contract (with the possibility to extend for an extra two years) will enable Eastdawn to distribute 50-cm resolution products from the Pléiades

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

NAVTEQ Transport Expands in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced today that its flagship fleet, logistics and transportation product, NAVTEQ Transport, is now available to support the trucking industry in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. With coverage connecting Brazil and Chile through Buenos Aires

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

NAVTEQ Provides Map Coverage for Over 98% of Central and South America Population

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced today at the ESRI Latin America User Group Conference that development of navigation and location-based solutions in the region recognized a boost with the release of two new NAVTEQ® maps and four new

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

AVEVA Buys Laser Scanning Business

Cambridge engineering design and information management solutions company AVEVA has acquired the software division of laser scanning firm Z+F UK. The move follows a long and successful partnership between the two companies – and allows AVEVA to expand its offering in the 3D data capture market. “There is no let-up in the need to extend the life

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Ubisense Acquires Geospatial Firm for £2.4m

Location solutions company Ubisense has bought a geospatial consultancy firm – based in the same building in Cambridge – for £2.4 million. It has acquired Realworld OO Systems – the UK subsidiary of Realworld Holding – which shares its St Andrew’s House premises in St Andrew’s Road. The cash consideration consists of £1.25 million on completion and

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

KISTERS Using New OGC Standards

KISTERS presented its final results of the Surface Water Interoperability Experiments #1 and #3 to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Boulder, CO this past week. The end result of this work was KiWIS (KISTERS Web Interoperability Solution), the first commercially available and robust service module on the market. Used in combination with WISKI or

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

SuperGeo Officially Launch SuperPad 3.0a

SuperGeo Technologies today announced that its latest fully functional mobile GIS software, SuperPad 3.0a, is officially launched to global market. SuperPad 3 consists of comprehensive and complete GIS functions, which integrates mapping, GIS, and GPS functions with hand-held devices and assists field surveyors in collecting, editing, and measuring spatial data in an easy and effective way.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Bentley’s WaterGEMS, Integrated With GIS and SCADA Technology

 Bentley Systems, Incorporated  today announced that Westernport Water, a utility in the state of Victoria, Australia, is using Bentley’s WaterGEMS water distribution modeling software, integrated with Open Spatial’s geographic information system (GIS) and Control Microsystems’ supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA), to cost-effectively operate and manage more than $43 million in water assets. The SCADA system

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Google Earth Celebrates One Billion Downloads

Google Earth has been downloaded more than one billion times since it was first introduced in 2005. That’s more than one billion downloads of the Google Earth desktop client, mobile apps and the Google Earth plug-in—all enabling you to to explore the world in seconds, from Earth to Mars to the ocean floor. Read More