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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Bluesky Appoints Aerial Mapping Specialist Ian Dee

Aerial surveying company Bluesky has appointed Ian Dee to the position of Sales Executive. With more than ten years experience in the aerial mapping industry, Ian joins the Leicestershire based company from Bluesky’s joint venture partner Astrium, formerly Infoterra. Reporting to the Sales Director, Ian will be responsible for developing sales of Bluesky’s innovative environmental

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

City of Melbourne Improves Community Services with ERDAS APOLLO

The City of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia is using ERDAS APOLLO Essentials – Image Web Server as a foundation for CoMPASS, an intranet mapping application designed to improve city services for citizens. Using ERDAS APOLLO Essentials – Image Web Server, CoMPASS unites disparate geospatial datasets and rapidly serves them to city employees and contractors within

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

3D Laser Mapping Crash Investigations Help Reduce Traffic Congestion

The use of laser scanners to collect vital data for crash investigations is set to drive down the £1bn annual cost of congestion caused by collisions on UK motorways. An announcement by the UK Roads Minister Mike Penning of a £3 million fund for police forces to purchase laser scanning technology ensures Nottingham based 3D

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

ASPRS Feedback Key to Continued USGS Camera Calibration

As a result of considerable discussion at the recent American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has reversed its original decision to discontinue film camera calibration. On April 27, 2011, the USGS Land Remote Sensing Program (LRSP) and the Earth Resources Observation and

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

New atlasFX From Alta4

atlasFX is an innovative map publishing solution for ArcGIS Server. Creating tangible flex based online maps hast just become easier. Just drag & drop your map service using atlasFX as the central configuration tool. Within minutes you can create different online maps for different needs and different audiences. No programming required. Read More

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

New Ice Thickness Map of the Arctic Unveiled

The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed today at the Paris Air and Space Show. This new information is set to change our understanding of the complex relationship between ice and climate. From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º, CryoSat has spent the

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

SuperGeo Officially Releases SuperGIS Mobile Tour 3.0 Android Version

SuperGeo Technologies announces that SuperGIS Mobile Tour 3.0 for Android, its first Android application, is now available.  Designed for outdoor mobile tour navigation, SuperGIS Mobile Tour is a mobile GIS application equipped with SuperGIS Mobile Tour Manager, which provides users with abundant tour guidance to navigate and settle their journeys via Android operation system.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

SSTL Expands Into State-of-the-Art Technical Facility

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has moved its technical operations into The Kepler Building, a new £10 million state-of-the-art technical facility, providing assembly, testing and integration of satellites platforms and payloads for SSTL’s global customers in a single location.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

viaEuropa Express Rapid Response Service for Insurance Map Users

Geodata solutions provider Europa Technologies has launched a hosted mapping service to help the insurance industry react quickly to emergency situations. viaEuropa Express, to be unveiled at the ABI Biennial Conference in London, is a new online DaaS (Data as a Service) offering that brings the most detailed cartography of Great Britain direct to the

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Bentley – NCS Workspace for Civil with US CAD Standard in InRoads and GEOPAK

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the release of its NCS Workspace for Civil. The new workspace enables designers to incorporate the United States National CAD Standard (NCS) in Bentley’s industry-leading InRoads and GEOPAK 3D civil engineering design software.