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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Combine Multiple Matrox Extio Units to Drive Up to 16 Remote Displays from a Single PC

Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced a new software release for the Matrox Extio F2208 dual-monitor and Matrox Extio F2408 quad-monitor KVM extenders. The comprehensive package enables a variety of new multi-display configuration opportunities that includes support for two PCIe interface cards, main units and Extio F2408E Expander boxes to drive up to 16 displays—plus keyboard,

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Cadcorp Opens the GeoDATA 2011 Road Show at the Emirates Stadium, London

Almost two hundred GIS specialists were present to hear how the UK based developer and supplier of GIS and web mapping software, has been working with customers to help them make cost savings by sharing their GIS resources. Cadcorp Marketing Manager, Richard Spooner, made a plea for the industry to stop hugging spatial data and spatial

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

1Spatial “Mapping on Demand” for German State Mapping Agency

1Spatial, provider of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, is delighted to announce that the Federal State Mapping organisation in Baden-Württemberg, Germany have purchased 1Spatial’s flagship Radius Studio solution. Baden-Württemberg will be using Radius Studio in their TFIS (Special Tourist Map) production workflow. The rules-based technology, at the heart of Radius Studio, will enable previously

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Ramani Signs Distribution Agreement With RapidEye

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Ramani Geosystems located in Kenya. The contract allows Ramani to distribute RapidEye products throughout the entire continent of Africa except Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara. Learn More

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

SPOT 4/5 and FORMOSAT-2 Imagery Tasking Initiated

Expecting the new 2011 imagery season ScanEx RDC starts to collect orders to create the imagery tasking plan with respect to SPOT 4/5 and FORMOSAT-2 satellites. This year additional fees for target imaging were cancelled for the first time. 

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Fugro-BKS Purchases UltraCamXp from Vexcel Imaging

Fugro-BKS Fugro NV, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamXp digital aerial camera system. “We are delighted to add the UltraCamXp to our range of airborne sensors,” stated Alan Campbell, Fugro-BKS Managing Director. “The camera’s wide footprint is ideal for uninterrupted collection of larger areas on aerial survey missions throughout Europe,

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

GeoERP

GeoERP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities for land, contracts, roads and infrastructure management. The system integrates extensive GIS capabilities into the authority’s existing workflow and logics to deliver perceptible process improvements and real value gained from the GIS. The system provides the authority with management capabilities to increase

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

New App Tracks Farm Fertilizer

Some P.E.I. farmers are turning to a new kind of software to keep nitrate levels in check and make their job easier — using an iPhone. “They’ve got apps for everything and now we’re developing an app, the is developing an app for producers like ourselves,” said Kevin MacIsaac, a potato farmer in Bear

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

HP Opens New Research Facility to Advance Sustainable Data Center Technologies

HP today announced the opening of a state-of-the-art research facility in Fort Collins, Colo., in which the company will advance sustainable data center technologies. The new facility will expand on HP’s Converged Infrastructure architecture by developing technologies to eliminate IT sprawl, increase energy efficiency and reduce power consumption to help clients minimize their carbon footprint and reinvest

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

FME Delivers Significant Time Savings to the City of Santa Rosa’s CAD to GIS Data Integration Project

Safe Software today announced that FME, the leading technology for spatial data transformation, enabled the City of Santa Rosa to implement an integrated water and sewer asset management system by eliminating complex and time-consuming CAD and GIS data integration processes. Conversion tasks that typically took hours are now completed in minutes, while also helping the