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Monday, April 4th, 2011

Italy’s Project SEE GeoForm Pursues WebGIS

“The project SEE-GeoForms” Site Effects Evaluation – Geological Form “was created with the objective of creating a simple, yet extremely powerful and comprehensive management of geological, geomorphological, geotechnical and geophysical surveys on the entire Italian territory.” The website can be accessed at a webGIS fact that, to date, presents data on the seismic hazard of Italy. WebGIS

Monday, April 4th, 2011

World’s First GLONASS-enabled Smartphone Ships in Russia

The planet’s first GLONASS phone is now available, but it surely looks like you’ll want to soar over to Russia so that it will use it. For sure, in the event you’ve followed the GLONASS story in any respect you wouldn’t find that shocking in the slightest degree, and in case you favor to pick

Friday, April 1st, 2011

GeoPlace Announces Plans for the National Address Gazetteer Database

Following approval from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the legal process to form GeoPlace has now been finalised, and production of the ‘national address gazetteer database’ to provide one definitive source of accurate spatial address data for England and Wales is now on track for delivery in the Autumn 2011. GeoPlace is a public sector

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Optech Announces Teledyne Minority Stake

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Teledyne DALSA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has acquired a minority interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace

Friday, April 1st, 2011

GE Leads Builders to LEED-certified Buildings

The green market for new construction is growing with builders to suppliers jumping to meet the demand. The green market was 2 percent of non-residential construction starts in 2005; 10 to 12 percent in 2008; and will grow to 20 to 25 percent by 2013. Not only is the demand growing, the evidence is mounting for

Friday, April 1st, 2011

3-GIS Enhances Inspection Management Express Solution

A greatly enhanced version of 3-GIS’s Express Solution Inspection Management Module has been released. The Inspection Management Module extends the functionality of 3-GIS’s Network Express and Field Express applications, leveraging these Esri-enabled web and field applications to effectively enable a utility’s inspection and maintenance activities. 3-GIS has enhanced the Inspection Management module to better assist

Friday, April 1st, 2011

OGC and OSCRE Work Together to Advance Real Estate Standards across the Globe

OSCRE (the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate) today announced that they have updated their Memorandum of Understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to reflect OSCRE’s new global focus following last year’s merger between PISCES and OSCRE Americas. OSCRE and the OGC organizations are now putting a new level of emphasis on collaborative standards

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Ambarella A7 IP Camera SoC Brings 1080p60 Performance into the Video Surveillance Mainstream

Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, HD video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the A7 IP Camera SoC, bringing high-quality 1080p60 H.264 performance to the video surveillance market. The A7 integrates a high performance image sensor pipeline with up to 500 MHz pixel capture rate with a multi-streaming 1080p60 H.264 encoder and power

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Response to Japan’s Disaster Relief Efforts

When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by providing its satellite imagery of the devastation in northern Japan to relief agencies, governments and the media. 

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Starting today, the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011

Starting today, the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 will once again welcome companies, start-ups, research institutions, universities, and even individuals all over the world to submit their innovative ideas in the field of satellite navigation. The overall winner – the Galileo Master – will be chosen from the winners of more than 20 regions in