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Friday, April 29th, 2011

EPA Launches New Strategy to Promote Use of Green Infrastructure

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation’s streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Green infrastructure decreases pollution to local waterways by treating rain where it falls and keeping polluted stormwater from

Friday, April 29th, 2011

UN-Spider – Crowdsource Mapping Expert Meeting and Technical Advisory Missions

The “United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response – UN-SPIDER” was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 with the following mission statement: “Ensure that all countries and international and regional organizations have access to and develop the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Hexagon Companies Appearing Together at ASPRS 2011 and Joint User Group Meeting

ERDAS announces its participation in the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) annual conference May 1-5 at the Frontier Airlines Center of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. In keeping with this year’s conference theme, “Ride on the Geospatial Revolution,” the companies of Hexagon – ERDAS, Intergraph, Leica Geosystems and Z/I Imaging – will reveal their

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Dubai’s GIS Enhances Operations to Support Continued Growth

Dubai Municipality signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri’s United Arab Emirates distributor GISTEC, making ArcGIS software available throughout the organization to help meet the planning and operational demands of Dubai’s rapid growth. With broader access to the latest ArcGIS software, the municipality intends to leverage GIS technology and share geospatial data between departments. Learn

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Rewarding the Best Innovative Ideas for EGNOS

Satellite navigation is already changing our lives. The search is on for new ideas that could use the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to improve life further. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is offering a prize for the best proposal that uses EGNOS – the European satellite-based augmentation system for GPS. Read More

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Sûreté du Québec’s Search and Rescue Application Wins ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the Sûreté du Québec with an Award of Excellence for enhancing search and rescue operations using ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.  The organization’s Emergency Management team provides emergency services for the entire Québéc region. They direct and coordinate search and rescue operations of the Safety units and municipal police forces in

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Poland Implements Esri-Based INSPIRE Solution

The Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in Poland (GUGiK) is implementing an Esri-based solution to support compliance with the European Union’s Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) Directive. The directive sets out a framework and timetable for implementing a pan-European spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to address multinational and multi-agency issues. GUGiK is the

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

OGC Announces XML Encoding Standard for Observations and Measurements

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to approve the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) – XML Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard. This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0, which is also published as ISO/DIS 19156), including

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

OHL Industrial Selects Intergraph Solutions to Develop Oil and Gas and Power Generation Plants

OHL Industrial, the engineering division of one of the largest Spanish construction companies, has chosen SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions, including SmartPlant 3D, for the development of oil and gas and power generation plants. The product suite integrating SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Review and SmartPlant Materials will enable OHL Industrial to optimize the engineering

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Okino Computer Graphics Ships its 15 th Yearly Release of PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max

Okino Computer Graphics, a leading provider and pioneer of data translation solutions to the DCC/Animation and professional production markets, announced today that its long standing 3D DCC/Animation/Skinning and CAD/MCAD/Architectural conversion software PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max (for 3ds Max 2012 & 3ds Max Design 2012), and PolyTrans-for-Maya (for Maya 2012), are now fully qualified and shipping to customers. This