Thursday, March 24th, 2011
An ESA project has recently demonstrated that new ways of processing satellite data can show how different properties of snow can be observed from space. This new method is expected to lead to a much deeper understanding of the role snow plays in the Earth system. Snow is a fundamental component of Earth’s energy and water
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
DAP Technologies today introduced its rugged M9000 tablet with breakthrough communications options including Wireless USB and integrated ZigBee® wireless technology, which are among the first applications of these technologies on tablet computers. It is also the first computer with the new Intel® E660T industrial processor and includes Qualcomm’s latest Gobi TM 3000 module.
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) and the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), both of which are part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), are continuing to provide as much data as possible from the two German radar satellites, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X, for the assessment of
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The results of the 2011 election have been tallied by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Tellers Committee and they reported that Stephen D. DeGloria, a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, won the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2011. With the installation of officers at the ASPRS
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
DHS has issued a request for qualifications from private firms for “Remote Sensing to Support Incident Management and Homeland Security”. Under the contract to be awarded, approximately four teams of firms will be under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) firm-fixed price contracts for five years. Services to be provided via task orders under the contract will
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. announced the availability of the AutoCAD 2012 software products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 offering. The AutoCAD 2012 products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 series are AutoCAD-based design software that give users the flexibility to use AutoCAD in a variety of industries, and the accessibility to stay connected to their work no matter where
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, today announced that the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, Aon Benfield, has signed a deal for its Spectrum data management solution, incorporating the Enterprise Geocoding module, Location Intelligence module and global data.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010, Hemisphere GPS reported $12.2 million in revenues, compared to$12.1 million recorded in the fourth quarter of
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt, Coastal Geospatial Services Division Chief, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC, has been presented the MAPPS Public Service Award. Mr. Schmidt was recognized for forging public-private partnerships, and inter-agency and inter-governmental arrangements to carry out NOAA projects that promote economic development and environmental balance in
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Driven by the surge of diverse cultural groups such as Hispanics and Asians, corporations are asking themselves how they will capitalize and better-serve the emerging American marketplace. Geoscape unveiled today its latest solution to addressing the modern American family through its “Next-Generation” platform. The Geoscape Intelligence System, or GIS helps corporate operations and marketing departments
