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Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Geneq Introduces Ultra-Small SXBlue GPS L1/L2 RTK Receiver

Geneq Inc. announces an ultra-small SXBlue GPS L1/L2 dual frequency GPS RTK receiver for high accuracy positioning. One of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing only 268g (~1/2 lb) and having dimensions of 11.26cm x 8.54cm x 3.53cm (4.43” x 3.36” x 1.39”), the SXBlue L1/L2 GPS is designed to be mounted on vehicles

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

LiveData Receives 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award

LiveData, Inc. announced that the company’s SmartGrid Manager has received a 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners (ICP). LiveData SmartGrid Manager is a data integration and visualization system that verifies the health of systems that run the electric power grid.LiveData solutions are the trusted real-time middleware of

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Intermap Technologies Completes the First 3D Dataset of All Roads in Western Europe

Intermap Technologies announced the completion of their 3D Roads – the only dataset to provide highly accurate 3D models for every road, from the largest highway to the smallest urban and rural roads, throughout Western Europe. Derived from a radar-generated 2D road network combined with height information from the Company’s NEXTMap digital terrain model, 3D

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Optech Announces Keynote Speakers for ILSC 2011

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for its Innovative Lidar Solutions Conference,ILSC 2011. At the conference, to be held May 31– June 3 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Toronto, the keynote speakers willbring their unique perspectives to illuminate critical issues

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Colortrac Launches 10 Language Version of SmartWorks Pro

Colortrac, an important innovator in the field of wide format scanner technology, have released a new version of their SmartWorks Pro large format scanner software allowing customers to select from one of 10 new fully nationalised versions to suit their local needs. The fully translated Graphical User Interface (GUI) and embedded Contextual User Guide allow SmartWorks Pro customers to further refine their scanning

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Nominations Process for URISA’s GIS Hall of Fame Opens

Nominations for URISA’s GIS Hall of Fame are being accepted until May 1, 2011.  URISA established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s or an organization’s record of contribution to the advancement

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

3-GIS to Demonstrate at the Emergency Preparedness for Utilities Conference

3-GIS, a GIS software development and services company based in Decatur, Alabama will attending the O’Neil Management Consulting Conference on Emergency Preparedness and Service Restoration for Utilities in Memphis, TN on March 16-18, 2011. 3-GIS will be demonstrating Command Center, an Esri-enabled Operational Picture and Situational Awareness solution. Read More

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Vexcel Imaging receives ISO 9001:2008 Certificate

On 4 February 2011, Vexcel Imaging GmBH, a Microsoft® company, received an ISO 9001:2008 Certificate from  the certification body SystemCERT. This certifies that Vexcel Imaging has implemented and maintains a Quality Management System which fulfills the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2008 and has demonstrated a commitment to continuous improvement of its processes. Learn

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Bremerhaven: Solar Power Now In The Land

From now on, the citizens of the city of Bremerhaven on its own website can view the solar potential of their information on house roofs. Among the 45,000 surveyed buildings can gradations of solar output level directly be detected by using color, how the individual roof photovoltaic system or solar water heating are suitable for

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

LoD1 and LoD2 from Airborne LiDAR for the Frankfurt Survey Department

In just eight weeks, virtualcitySYSTEMS created over 200,000 buildings in LoD1 and LoD2 from airborne LiDAR for the Frankfurt Survey Department. The total area of the project encompassed 250km² including Frankfurt International Airport. Object attributes from the municipal ground cadastre were saved to the building geometry and finally saved in CityGML 0.4.0 and 1.0. A