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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Wood Buffalo Empowers Employees with a Geographic View of Operations

Spanning over 68,000 square kilometers, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest municipality by area.  To keep track of its numerous dispersed assets and understand how they relate to one another, ESRI Canada today announced that the municipality will deploy a Common Operational Picture (COP) application built on ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. 

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

LIDAR: Photon-counting 3D Imaging Lidar Measures Biomass and the Cryosphere

Compared to conventional waveform-digitizing altimeters or laser time-of-flight lidar techniques, photon-counting lidar is a more efficient technique as it requires only one detected photon to make a range measurement rather than hundreds or thousands. Sigma Space Corp. (Lanham, MD) has taken advantage of this ranging sensitivity to develop its single-photon counting lidar system, which can

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Vectorworks 2012 Software is Here!

We are happy to announce the availability of the 2012 version of the award-winning Vectorworks line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Bentley’s 2012 Student Design Competition Call for Nominations Now Open

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that the call for nominations for its 2012 Student Design Competition is now open. University, college, high school, and technical school students are invited to submit projects designed using Bentley software, along with a short essay describing their

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Ordnance Survey to Showcase New Addressing Products at Industry Conference

The new addressing products from GeoPlace LLP, a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group, will be showcased for the first time at the annual conference. Delegates will be able to view demonstrations of the new products and find out about the many new features and benefits.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Nokia Car Mode Drives Fusion of Cars with Smartphone Services

Today at the IAA (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung), Nokia announced Nokia Car Mode, a standalone application optimized for the in-car use of Nokia smartphones. Nokia Car Mode features an optimized user interface simplifying the access and use of Nokia Drive (voice-guided car navigation with Nokia Maps), traffic updates, music and voice calls while driving. Nokia Car

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Tekla BIMsight on MyArchiCAD.com

Tekla and GRAPHISOFT’s long-term cooperation continues, as the Tekla BIMsight software application for building information model-based construction project collaboration becomes available on GRAPHISOFT’s MyArchiCAD.com.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Global Mapper v13.00 Now Available

Global Mapper Software LLC is excited to announce the release of GlobalMapper v13.00. Just  downloadthat file and run it to install v13.00. It will install alongside any existing Global Mapper version, so you don’t have to worry about losing what you’re currently working on. Among the numerous significant changes in this release are the following:

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Autodesk to Help Drive Data Interoperability in AEC Industries

Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company’s Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) exporter for its Revit products is now accessible as open source code, licensed through a LGPL v. 2.1 licensing agreement. Since 2005, Autodesk Revit products have provided IFC file export, making it possible to export replicas of project models to the standard IFC file format.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Undet – Cost Effective Point Cloud Processing Software

Fast to learn and easy to use point cloud tool box for AutoCad Undet will be introduced by JSC InfoEra at Intergeo 2011. Undet is entry-level point cloud processing software for object analysis, 2D drafting and 3D modeling. With just a core feature set Undet will let you manage and use point clouds quickly and easily without extensive