Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new service of access to spatial data “Express. Kosmosnimki” started to operate in test mode. The service was created by ScanEx specialists to streamline and expedite spatial data delivery to the end-user’s operations environment. Desktop GIS application can be such an environment (Mapinfo, ArcMap, Gismeteo, GlobalMapper, etc.) or Web-GIS applications, such as ArcGIS API,
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Trimble introduced a new cloud-based solution that provides on-road supply chain visibility to enhance efficiency for the transport and logistics industry in India—Trimble® trako Visual Cargo. With standard, easy-to-use application process interfaces (API), shippers can seamlessly integrate Visual Cargo with its ERP/TMS system and vehicle location data from the Trimble trako Fleet Management solution to
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Michael Oskin, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, is lead author on a recent Science journal paper that describes how a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential absorption LIDAR(light detection and ranging) to report the most comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone using data from the magnitude 7.2 event
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Europe’s meteorological satellite organization, Eumetsat, has again been unable to secure its member governments’ full support to start work on a next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system and will try anew in July, Eumetsat officials said. The 27-nation Eumetsat said it has nonetheless increased the guaranteed contributions to the program, to 83 percent of the total
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
EuroGeographics provided updated EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroBoundaryMap products, to Eurostat based on contract signed with them, on behalf of the European Commission. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 supplied to Eurostat, now covers 41 countries and territories and includes the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia for the first time. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 will be released to the market place at the end of February 2012. Existing
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
TomTom announced that together they will introduce HD Traffic, a premium real-time traffic solution, to drivers across China. Through the joint-venture TomTom and AutoNavi will enable their customers in automotive, wireless and enterprise markets to deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information.
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Kalypso is an open source application for geospatial modelling and simulation. It is primarily developed to be a user friendly tool for GIS-based modelling and simulation of hydrological and hydraulic numerical models. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
On February 13 the Moscow-based UniScan ground station of ScanEx RDC received the image of the Gulf of Finland, acquired by SPOT 4 satellite. The ice situation in the Gulf of Finland poses no threats to ships navigation. Current situation with ice-breaker escorting in Eastern part of the Gulf of Finland is considered by the
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Z/I Imaging is pleased to announce the release of its Z/I Software version 6.4. Z/I Sensor Software includes a suite of products for the DMC and DMC II camera families for raw image data post processing, distributed processing, digital image enhancement, in-field data copy and real time image quality control. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of those in the surveying and spatial sciences. There are a variety of categories for individual and project based
