Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Onset today announced its new Wind Direction Smart Sensor, a research-grade plug-and-play sensor for measuring and logging wind direction data. The easy-to-use sensor, which works with the company’s award-winning HOBO Weather Stations, offers years of reliable performance in harsh outdoor environments. Customers will use the wind sensor in a broad range of applications, including agricultural research,
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
The new generation of weather and environmental satellites, GOES-15, officially became operational as GOES-West on Dec. 13, 2011. As a result, communities across the Western United States and Pacific region will begin to benefit from improved weather forecasts and environmental intelligence. ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems, an operating division of ITT Exelis, designed and built the
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
BENTEK Energy, a leading energy markets information and analytics company, today announced its continued commitment to providing the industry with powerful GIS resources. More than 1.6 million miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil and electric infrastructure, contained in more than 60 GIS layers, are now deliverable from BENTEK in Google Earth
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
December marks the end of a geographic pilot project, managed by Cybera, that improves researcher access to international environmental data drawn from more than 60,000 sensors and 2,800 web map servers. The Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing (GeoCENS) project was created in 2009 as a 3D platform that enables researchers and citizens to gain access
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Spirent Communications has been named by Frost & Sullivan as the market leader in the 1/10/40/100G Ethernet and cloud infrastructure test equipment markets, with 28.9 percent and 45.6 percent market shares respectively. According to Frost & Sullivan’s recent market reports, Spirent’s innovative approach to testing, focus on product enhancements, and capacity to utilize core competencies
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
IDV Solutions, developer of Visual Fusion data visualization software, today announced a partnership with Tamarack Geographic Technologies, a company based in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that focuses on enterprise geographic information systems (GIS) services and solutions. Visual Fusion is innovative software that unites data from virtually any source in interactive, web-based visualizations. Applications created with
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
In an increasingly complex GNSS environment, simulation and testing activities are playing a pivotal role, helping developers to reduce the time to market and ensuring that their GNSS product meets the performance requirements reliably. However, choosing the right GNSS testing tool depends on many aspects and is not an easy task. This is particularly the
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Raven Industries Electronic Systems Division announces a new distributor relationship regarding their Raven StarLink Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) products through NavtechGPS. NavtechGPS is a technology driven small business with more than two decades of experience in global positioning systems, geolocation technology and GPS/GNSS technical training. Beginning December 15, 2011 NavtechGPS will receive and process
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Aerial survey company Bluesky is accelerating the digitisation of its archive of historically important aerial photographs of the UK following the acquisition of a new camera from the same range used by NASA on the Apollo space missions. The high end DSLR Hasselblad camera is being used to photograph original survey films dating back to
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Gatewing, manufacturer of the revolutionary X100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) for mapping and surveying, introduces Gatewing Stretchout, a breakthrough image processing solution which automatically converts your X100 image data to accurate orthophotos and DSMs. “With Gatewing Stretchout we’ve challenged the accepted way of traditional photogrammetry by introducing highly advanced vision technology that changes the way you process your
