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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

RapidEye USA Awarded NGA Contract

RapidEye USA announced today that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). RapidEye is a leader in wide area, repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of satellites and advanced remote sensing-based services. “We’re pleased to be providing our imagery to NGA,” commented Clint Graumann,

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Position Partners Joins Pointools Sales Partner Program in Australia

Position Partners Pty Ltd.  has joined the Pointools Partner Program in Australia. Pointools software streamlines scan-to-model workflows by enabling project teams to reference and reuse the largest point cloud models – the billions of measurement points taken by 3D laser scanners – inside the broadest range of applications. “Pointools provides an ideal solution for processing point

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Intergraph 2011 Asia-Pacific Conferences Achieve Record Numbers

Intergraph has successfully concluded its series of Intergraph 2011 user conferences in Asia-Pacific with eight events held in six countries.  Approximately 2,000 delegates attended, marking the highest-ever attendance for these annual user conferences in the region. The Intergraph 2011 Asia-Pacific user conferences were held in July and August this year in eight cities: Pattaya, Thailand; Jakarta,

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

United Nations Chooses DigitalGlobe FirstLook to Speed Humanitarian Relief

DigitalGlobe today announced that the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has subscribed to the company’s FirstLook global event monitoring service for its Operational Satellite Applications Program (UNOSAT). When crises occur, FirstLook will deliver updated high-resolution satellite imagery and associated insight of the region to UNOSAT personnel within hours after the crisis begins.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Bluesky 3D Computer Models Speed Railway Station Redesigns

Award winning architect Pozzoni LLP is using computer-generated 3D models from Bluesky to help redesign a number of railway stations in the south east of England. Working for Solum Regeneration, a partnership between Network Rail and Kier Property, Pozzoni has already completed the design of a mixed use scheme at Haywards Heath including supermarket, hotel

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Exprodat’s Acreage Analyst Makes Ranking Oil Leases Simple on ArcGIS 10

Exprodat’s Team-GIS Acreage Analyst, a toolkit for evaluating, ranking and screening petroleum leases, opportunities and risks was released today for ArcGIS 10. The new version of Team-GIS Acreage Analyst delivers geospatial analytic tools, traditionally the preserve of the GIS specialist, into the hands of the geoscientist. For further information see http://www.exprodat.com/software/TGAA.

Monday, September 5th, 2011

SCANEX ADPS – a System of Automatic RS Data Processing

The system of automatic data processing (SCANEX Automatic Data Processing System, further on – ADPS) enables to carry out satellite data processing from source “raw” data stream up to standard Level 1 and Level 2 products in fully automatic mode. The system ensures processing of data delivered from meteorological polar-orbiting satellites of NOAA, NOAA, MetOp-A, FengYun-1D

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Utility Sector Win for Landmark Promap Solutions

PromapSolutions, has secured a win in the utility sector to provide Cambridge Water with Ordnance Survey MasterMap (OSMM) Topography Layer Mapping for the next three years. The contract was awarded to Landmark PromapSolutions following a review of Cambridge Water’s current mapping provider. Cambridge Water will use the detailed landscaping of the OSMM Topography Layer as part

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Ghana Sees First Biomass Supply Chain Project

Africa Renewables Ltd., headquartered in London, is actively recruiting for more than 70 new forestry and biomass production jobs in Ghana to support the country’s first wood chip supply chain venture. The project will harvest redundant rubber trees from the Ghana Rubber Estates Ltd. plantation for chipping and sale to European utilities and energy traders, according

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Small Target Detection Based on Radar

Researching in small target detection based on radar makes it necessary to search for targets with a signal to noise (clutter) ratio of less than 1. In order to detect targets in such environments VisSim has developed an extensive library of pattern recognition and parameters analysis algorithms for studying of sea clutter. For this research VisSim