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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Amey Rolls Out Confirm OnDemand from Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Support Birmingham Highways Service

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, has successfully deployed and mobilised Confirm OnDemand – PBBI’s on-demand asset maintenance and management system – for the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service, a £2.7bn project run by Amey in partnership with Birmingham City Council (BCC).

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

New Pythagoras Partner in Qatar- Al Shabeeb Precision Instruments

Pythagoras is a standalone CAD program that focuses on markets concerning surveying, constructing, engineering,… Powerful and user friendly drawing and calculation functions give the user the possibility to treat measurements accurately and to finish drawings swiftly. Thanks to the modular system, the user can compose a software package according his or her needs. Digital terrain models, road design, importing

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

City of Brantford Wins ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the City of Brantford with an Award of Excellence for enhancing enterprise asset management using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology.  Since the 1990s, the City has recorded and managed information on the location and attributes of their municipal infrastructure.  To efficiently manage the large amount of data they have accumulated, the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Elektro Celje – First Slovenian Electrical Utility to Introduce the ArcFM UT System

Elektro Celje is one of the leading electricity distribution companies in Slovenia, covering roughly 22% of the territory of Slovenia, comprising the regions of the Savinjska, the Koroška and lower Posavska with a total of around 50 municipalities. The distribution network consists from more than 3500 km high and average voltage power lines, 3500 transformer stations,

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Swiss Meteorological Network Upgrades with Precision GNSS Positioning

As part of a major upgrade and renewal of the Swiss Metrological Network of weather stations, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, is employing an Ashtech® ProMark™ 500, smart GNSS receiver, to measure to centimetre-level accuracy the position of each of its more than 1,100 sensors located at 135 stations throughout the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Applanix Launches POS MV V5 for Hydrographic Surveys

Applanix announced today the release of POS MV™ V5  (Position and Orientation System for Marine Vessels), the next generation of its industry leading georeferencing and motion compensation system for hydrographic surveying. The announcement was made at Ocean Business 2011, a leading international hands-on ocean technology and training forum.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Fugro Awarded NOAA Coastal Geospatial Services Contract

Fugro announced today that it has signed a 5-year contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coastal Services Center (CSC) for geospatial services to support coastal resources management in all US continental, Caribbean and Pacific territories.  

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

1Spatial Delivers Real-time Counter-piracy Alert System

1Spatial, provider of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, has delivered to Pole Star Space Applications Limited (UK) a real-time alert service extension to Pole Star’s counter-piracy ‘Ship Security and Reporting System’ (www.ssrs.org), originally developed by 1Spatial for Pole Star in 2009 and operational since the beginning of 2010. The current form of the ‘Ship

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

KeyCreator 2011 V10.0 Released

Infotech Enterprises GmbH today announced the official release of the latest version of 3D direct CAD software from Kubotek: KeyCreator 2011 Version 10.0, the most robust direct modeling system available. KeyCreator 2011 V10.0 now supports 64-bit architecture, new and improved dynamic editing and a fully re-engineered IGES translator that imports files quicker and more accurately than previous

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Trimble Expands GIS Data Collection Portfolio to Include Rangefinder for Remote Measurement Applications

Trimble introduced today the new Trimble LaserAce 1000 rangefinder, an easy-to-use handheld measurement tool combining a laser distance meter, digital inclinometer, sighting scope and Bluetooth wireless technology. The new rangefinder expands Trimble’s portfolio by seamlessly integrating with its Geographic Information System (GIS) data collection solutions.