Friday, April 15th, 2011
Microsoft will launch “Streetside”, its own version of Google’s mapping service StreetView, on Bing maps in the second week of May in the UK. A Microsoft spokesman said the company has started collecting 360-degree photos of streets in London. Next month the company will start gathering images form other countries in Europe including Germany, France
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc. announced today that Esri has signed a strategic contract to license a large amount of GeoEye’s high-resolution IKONOS archive imagery. Esri, based in Redlands, Calif., will blend this highly accurate imagery with its current imagery data from multiple sensors to produce a global, static cache map layer. This imagery base layer will be
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, congratulates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science, on winning this year’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal award. The individual award, widely regarded as Canada’s top award for science and engineering, recognizes continued excellence and influence in research
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Geospatial Holdings, Inc. (Geospatial) and Reduct NV (Reduct) have formed a strategic alliance to expedite the deployment of Reduct’s DuctRunner/Smart Probe Pipeline Mapping Technologies and Geospatial’s GeoUnderground™ Web-based GIS Portal into the global marketplace. Highlights of the alliance include :
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Today, Esri released its innovative American Community Survey (ACS) ACS Population Summary and ACSHousing Summary reports, containing data from the 2005–2009 ACS five-year period estimates. Esri added value to the ACS data by offering the data for nonstandard geographies and simplifying use of the ACS margin of error (MOE). The reports are available immediately to guest users and subscribers
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Since the launch of the AutoCAD WS mobile app last September, we have received one question more than all others: When are you going to release AutoCAD WS for Android? And so we are delighted to announce that this free app which has already been downloaded more than one million times will be available to download
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Septentrio’s AsteRx3 receivers are successfully tracking the GLONASS CDMA L3 signal transmitted by the first GLONASS-K1 satellite. This satellite was launched on February 26. It carries a payload capable of transmitting a CDMA signal in the L3 band, with a center frequency of 1202.025 MHz, in addition to the standard L1/L2 GLONASS FDMA signals. It is
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
NAVTEQ has announced that Garmin Distribution Africa has chosen NAVTEQ® maps for South Africa and enhanced content for its new nüvi devices. Garmin has access to NAVTEQ map data worldwide (currently available in 84 countries and territories), through a long-term global contract between the two companies, and is further extending its reach with the implementation of
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
An unparalleled collection of high-resolution satellite imagery covering sub-Saharan Africa in a single season is now available in the DMCii image archive, providing an invaluable snapshot of more than 40 countries, including Cameroon, Congo, and Ethiopia for assessing phenomena such as deforestation, urbanisation and desertification. Sub-Saharan Africa is a vast and diverse landscape with climatic
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Solar has been awarded a major contract to install a 44 megawatt solar thermal augmentation project at a 750 megawatt coal-fired power station in Queensland, Australia, representing the largest solar project in the Southern Hemisphere and the world’s largest solar/coal-fired power augmentation project. AREVA Solar’s Australian-pioneered Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology will be installed at CS
