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Friday, March 25th, 2011

First Broad-scale Maps of Life on the Sea-shelf

Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia’s continental shelf.They examined the shelf seascape during a three-year program of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Marine BiodiversityHub.  They examined the shelf seascape during a three-year program of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Marine Biodiversity

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Link Analysis Software Enhances Data Import, Declutter and Visualization

FMS, Inc. an In-Q-Tel portfolio company, has released Version 4.6 of its Sentinel Visualizer data visualization and link analysis software. Originally released in 2005, Sentinel Visualizer offers link charts, social network analysis, geospatial mapping, and the examination of timelines based on a user-customizable knowledgebase. The Professional and Premium Editions of Sentinel 4.6 now provide enhanced

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Australia’s City West Water Expands Investment in MWH Soft Solutions For Enterprise-Wide Geospatial Water Modeling

The program, chosen following a competitive review to replace its existing modeling solution, will support CWWL’s commitment to improving its operational efficiency while taking its customer service to new levels. CWWL provides drinking water, sewerage, trade waste and recycled water services to over 855,900 people in Melbourne’s central business district, inner and western suburbs. Its boundaries

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

SuperGeo Partners with Helix S.r.l. Exclusively in Italy

SuperGeo Technologies officially announced its exclusive partner in Italy, where Helix S.r.l. is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Helix S.r.l. is located in Macerata at the northeast of Italy. With its founders merging their expertise in Geographic Information System (GIS), territory management and geology, Helix S.r.l. has been offering services including geographic information and workflow

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

ESA Project Reveals New Insight Into Complexities of Snow

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 Unveils New Rugged Mobile Tablet

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

TerraSAR-X Satellite Data Reveals Destruction Caused by Tsunami in Japan

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

Stephen D. DeGloria Elected as ASPRS Vice President

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

MAPPS Praises DHS Emergency Response Contract

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

AutoCAD 2012 Products Deliver Flexibility and Accessibility

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