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Saturday, August 13th, 2011

GeoSocials Now in India for Android and iPhone

XLabz Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a leading provider of cutting edge mobile applications officially announced the all India release of their successful GPS based virtual treasure hunt and social networking game GeoSocials. With an initial limited release for the iPhone in the United States of America and subsequent staggered launches across Europe and Asia, GeoSocials has since

Friday, August 12th, 2011

PCI Supports Environmental Initiatives by Growing and Donating Trees

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, donated trees to the City of Gatineau, helping to enhance the local ecosystem and the environment. Technology developed by PCI Geomatics is used around the world to study the effects of climate change, through the analysis of imagery collected by Earth Observation sensors. On

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Intermap Begins Airborne Data Collection Stage on NSDI Mapping Contract

Intermap Technologies today announced that its airborne data collection activities have commenced on a previously announced contract (December 29, 2010) to provide 3D digital elevation models and orthorectified radar images as part of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) program. This $12.4 million contract is intended to update the customer’s current 1:50,000-scale base map and will

Friday, August 12th, 2011

SPOT Satellite Coverage of Siberian and Far Eastern Areas in Open Access

Basic satellite coverage of “Kosmosnimki.Ru” geoportal now includes SPOT mosaic of the territory of over 5 million square kilometers, covering 14 federal constituents in Siberia and Far East of Russia, as well as South-Western areas of Krasnoyarsk Territory. In early August satellite coverage of SPOT with resolution of 10 m was posted in the Kosmosnimki.Ru web resource.

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Agrisoft and OpenGeo Partner to Support Indonesian Geospatial Software Users

Agrisoft Citra Buana, PT and OpenGeo producer of the OpenGeo Suite, announced a new collaboration to establish an official OpenGeo Suite reseller in Indonesia. Agrisoft is the latest company to join the rapidly growing OpenGeo global partner network. This new partnership reflects the growing need for local language support for the many Indonesian users of

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Hot-Spot Analysis Identifies Potential WIC Recipients

California Department of Public Health’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) programs are working together to use GIS technology from Esri to identify geographic locations with people who are eligible for but not receiving WIC services.

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Launch Date Set for NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X Satellites

SSTL has today announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia 17th August 2011. Both NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X will be launched into the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, where they will assist with disaster relief and

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

AVEVA Introduces New Products at Offshore Europe

AVEVA announced today its participation at Offshore Europe 2011 where it will introduce two new products to the UK market – AVEVA Engineering and AVEVA Electrical. AVEVA Electrical creates and maintains electrical equipment and cabling data allowing considerable cost savings through a wide range of flexible automated process optimisations. AVEVA Engineering enables multi-discipline engineering teams to

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Siemens Technologies Contribute to Skanska Headquarters

Automated buildings utilising modern technologies that help lower operating expenses and environmental impacts are gradually becoming the standard. One of them is the Opatov Park I administrative centre, which has become the new headquarters of construction and development company Skanska. Siemens participated in the construction of the complex, whose technologies enable the central operation of

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Space and Monitoring of Fires in Aerospace School, Yakutia

The Physico-Mathematical Lyceum “Lensky Krai” became the venue of the V (anniversary) aerospace school “The road to space”. Over 150 children and students from 20 different settlements (regions) of the republic studied physics, mathematics, history of cosmonauts and basics of Earth remote sensing from space. The lessons in the aerospace school were supported by ScanEx