Monday, December 20th, 2010
We’ve lined up a few last-minute surprises. Over the next five days, we’ve got five presents lined up for you. So, each morning, check your email at this time! Read More
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Optech Incorporated announced today that it has acquired the operations and assets of Geospatial Systems, Inc. (GSI), a United States camera and imaging company. “Photogrammetric imagery and lidar data collection technologies continue to merge into a single mainstream technology,” said Don Carswell, Optech’s President. “We are very impressed by GSI’s capabilities in the design, engineering and
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
3D Systems announced that it added EmberSurge, a recognized, successful Silicon Valley Reseller and service provider, to its growing network of 3D printers and solutions providers. With a qualified team of experienced engineers and service professionals, EmberSurge delivers comprehensive sales and support for 3D printers along with part printing services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The newly published third edition of the ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings is an updated version of this easy-to-use reference that covers the need-to-know information on what to do, where to turn, what to suggest and how to interact with other members of the design team in a productive way. The book
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
China launched a new orbiter from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province on Saturday. The newly launched satellite joins six other satellites already in orbit to form a network. The Navigation System is called BeiDou after the Big Dipper constellation. Beidou is designed to provide navigation, time and short message services in the Asia
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real time as well as address the common issues involved with system interoperability and bandwidth.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US government has developed specialist software that will help keep GPS surveying equipment up-to-date with the shifting of tectonic plates in continental North America. The agency’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has developed horizontal time-dependent positioning (HTDP) software, which allows for the estimation of horizontal velocities on
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
Passengers can now select between informative and relaxing ESA channels on Lufthansa flights. ESA’s new relaxation channel features Our Colorful Planet, a collage of spectacular Earth images set to meditative music. Beginning this month, ESA’s expanded onboard entertainment is a flowing presentation of Earth images from its Envisat satellite. The film, which had its debut
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of the 8.0 version of the MrSID Decode SDK (DSDK) to complement the recent release of LizardTech GeoExpress 8. This SDK gives developers tools to support viewing files in the MrSID Generation 4
Friday, December 17th, 2010
At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists from NASA and other agencies presented the latest research on the magnitude 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, that region’s largest in nearly 120 years. Scientists have studied the earthquake’s effects in unprecedented detail using data from GPS, advanced simulation tools and new remote
