Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Spatial Energy and Blue Marble Geographics today announced a new alliance to distribute content and software to the Energy market worldwide. Spatial Energy’s foundation imagery content will now be a freely available within the Global Energy Mapper™ software application. Blue Marble Geographics will speed development plans for Global Energy Mapper to integrate with cloud imagery
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations. The satellite will provide scientists with critical insight into the dynamics of the entire Earth system, including climate, clouds, oceans, and vegetation. It will also gather enhanced data for improving our nation’s weather forecasting system.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
International partners are looking ahead to the newest member in a series of weather satellites that deliver images to European forecasters: MSG-3 is set for launch this summer. The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites are designed to improve weather prediction.The first in the series, MSG-1 – also known as Meteosat-8 – was launched in 2002. MSG-2
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
In the SmartSenior research project, 28 partner companies and organizations from research and industry will be cooperating under the leadership of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs). The project began in 2009: In nine sub-projects, innovations were developed for integrating communication and services, including assistance in case of emergencies, household safety solutions, systems for social networking, and
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Locaid, the largest Location-as-a-Service company, today announced commercial availability of Locaid Global Cell-ID™. This new feature, accessible via Locaid’s Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, allows enterprise mobile developers to acquire carrier-certified, permission-based location on their devices in over 165 countries around the globe.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Dutch surveying company Geomaat is capturing millimetre accurate measurements in record times to support a range of highway design, construction and maintenance projects. Using the mobile laser mapping system StreetMapper, and specially developed point cloud software, Geomaat can calculate highly accurate cutting, milling and asphalt figures, create as built models and undertake change detection.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Will Bombardier Inc. be the favourite to snag a £1-billion ($1.6 billion) Crossrail deal in Britain after being stunned last summer by the loss of the £1.4-billion ($2.2 billion) Thameslink Underground contract to Germany’s Siemens AG? Siemens fears it may, as the contract for 60 fast trains between east and west London and a rail yard
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
For the year ended December 31, 2011, Hemisphere GPS reported revenues of $67.8 million, a 21% increase from revenues of $56 million reported in 2010. Growth reported for the first three quarters of 2011 was followed by flat growth in the fourth quarter as market activity in Europe and South America, primarily from OEM’s, was below other regions.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Blom announces the release of version 3.2 of the BlomDESKTOP Viewer, desktop application for geospatial data, with enhanced features and a collection of new functionalities, tools and datasets. The main features of this new version of BlomDESKTOP Viewer are based on enhancing the user experience with new datasets such as the spherical imagery of BlomSTREET™ and
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
AVEVA (LSE:AVV), announced today that GENPRO Engenharia S.A. has made a significant new investment in AVEVA PDMS software after achieving substantial engineering and business benefits from its existing implementation. A key reason for GENPRO’s selection of PDMS is the software’s ability to easily interface with other engineering disciplines, while delivering the highest possible production output. The result has been
