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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

3D Laser Mapping Expands South African Operations

3D Laser Mapping, an international developer of laser scanning solutions, has appointed Adriaan Oeschger to the position of Key Account Manager. Oeschger, whose surveying background dates back more than twenty years, has worked in the mining industry and most recently for a distributor of survey, measurement and geospatial solutions in South Africa. Oeschger will join the  existing team, providing support

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

The Heritage Value of Modern Shipwrecks

English Heritage has undertaken a project with funding from MEDIN to expand its database of historic shipwrecks to include post war losses. The project, which has now been completed, involved carrying out desk based research checking and combining information from various sources and has resulted in the recording of over 500 wrecks. Read More

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

GTG Selected for New Mexico Contracts

Geographic Technologies Group was selected for multiple software contracts and services including: City of Santa Fe, New Mexico – upgraded to Community Connect AVL for GeoBlade Dispatch, purchased GeoBlade Mobile with Community Connect AVL, purchased GeoBlade Route and GeoBlade Notify, and upgraded to GeoBlade Dispatch. City of Dublin, Ohio – purchased two (2) GeoBlade Crimes seats. GTG is currently working

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

TerraEchos Named First North American Reseller of InfoSphere Streams

TerraEchos Inc., a leading provider of covert intelligence and surveillance sensor solutions, has been named an IBM Advanced Partner in Information Management. This agreement positions TerraEchos as a reseller of the IBM InfoSphere Streams technology, an advanced computing platform designed by IBM for ‘big data-in-motion’ analytics. “This agreement further deepens and expands TerraEchos’ relationship with IBM,”

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Bombardier Celebrates the Opening of Operations for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link in Johannesburg

First ever rapid rail system for Africa opens the next phase of the system, featuring proven Bombardier Electrostar trains and Bombardier Cityflo 250 train control to bring high quality public transport to the Gauteng Province. Bombardier Transportation today celebrated the opening of the extended first phase of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

VSR Shape Modeling 1.0 Available

The product provides Simple and rapid modeling of control points with many additional options including Curve and surface connection to function G3 (Flow), Handle in the graphics for easy modification of the geometry result, Integrated analysis for evaluation of results in almost all functions, Fast user-controlled generation of surface meshes and Functionality for sketching of

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Catalog Data Solutions Offers BIM Content Solution for Building Product Manufacturers

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) announced the availability of a new Building Information Modeling (BIM) content solution for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry, a new executive to lead the BIM team and a free downloadable Whitepaper, Becoming BIM-ready, available at www.catalogdatasolutions.com.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

INPE Record of 312.7 km ² Deforestation in the Amazon in June

The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) announced on Tuesday (2) the report of its monitoring system Real Time Deforestation of the Amazon (Stop) for the month of June. Were detected 312.7 km ² of forest cutting in the region during the period – an area equivalent to 195 times the Ibirapuera Park. The number is 28.3%

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

TGS Multi-client 3D Survey in the Faroe-Shetland Basin

The new seismic data is being acquired by the PGS Ramform Viking towing 12 X 6,000 m with 75 m separation and utilizes PGS’ GeoStreamer Technology.  Data acquisition will continue through Q3 2011 and the vessel will return in 2012 to complete the survey.   Data processing will be performed by both TGS and PGS.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

MecSoft Receives Autodesk Inventor Certification

MecSoft Europe GmbH announced today that VisualXPORT is certified for use with Autodesk Inventor 2011 and 2012 mechanical design and engineering software under the Inventor Certified Applications Program. The certification of VisualXPORT gives Autodesk Inventor software users access to a family of CAM products that will help enhance their manufacturing processes. Read More