Friday, January 13th, 2012
Capping a record year which saw renewed confidence in Alberta’s oil patch, for the first time in provincial history, Alberta has exceeded $3 billion in land sales for a calendar year. Revenues for the final calendar year sale of provincial petroleum and natural gas mineral leases and licenses, also known as land sales, were $145,621,531.32.
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Depiction Inc was recently awarded a contract to provide a version of depiction to be used with RealWorld – a 3D simulation tool that was developed for the military by DARPA to provide a rapid mission rehearsal capability. Depiction will be used to assist the user in collecting information in a 2D environment and then
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Geoimage is pleased to announce that it will be distributing NEXTMap products in Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the Pacific countries after signing an agreement with Intermap Technologies. Intermap collects elevation data aerially, using aircraft equipped with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) technology and supplements this with satellite acquired data to generate uniform, high-resolution
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
HOK is the U.S. Green Building Council’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a facility targeting LEED Platinum certification that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and children’s center devastated by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti and killed 316,000 people two years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010. The project seeks to provide a safe, healthy home for
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Clark Labs is pleased to announce the upcoming release of its 17th version of the IDRISI geospatial software for monitoring and modeling the Earth system. The Selva software incorporates major revisions to IDRISI’s Land Change Modeler and Earth Trends Modeler applications. It also includes a variety of new analytical techniques, optimizations to current modules and
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Over the next five years, the Bavarian Agency for Surveying and Geographic Information (Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation Bayern (LVG)) will equip all of their Cadastral Offices with the latest total station technology from Leica Geosystems. The LVG has 51 state survey offices with 22 satellite offices in Bavaria, which between them manage and continuously
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Over the next five years, the Bavarian Agency for Surveying and Geographic Information (Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation Bayern (LVG)) will equip all of their Cadastral Offices with the latest total station technology from Leica Geosystems. The LVG has 51 state survey offices with 22 satellite offices in Bavaria, which between them manage and continuously
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Intermap Technologies today announced that the Company was awarded a USD $2.0 million task order from Dewberry & Davis to perform airborne radar mapping in Alaska. The work will be performed during the summer months of 2012 and is the second phase of a multi-year mapping program in Alaska. Intermap will use its proprietary Interferometric
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The ink is drying on the agreement ‘twixt Samsung and TomTom for the latter’s maps and location content will appear on the Wave 3 Bada smartphone. Owners of the device will get access to TomTom’s global maps, point of interest information, 3D city maps as well as live traffic updates and speed camera notifications. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
CSR pl announced that Mio Technology Corporation (Mio), a leading maker of mobile GPS devices, has extended its strategic collaboration with CSR, deploying CSR’s SiRFatlasV SoC and TriG RF-based platform to provide the multimedia and navigation capability for its new-generation line of personal navigation devices (PNDs). The new line is the latest member of Mio’s popular line