Friday, May 20th, 2011
Bentley Institute Press, publisher of cutting-edge university textbooks and professional reference works for the architectural, engineering, construction (AEC), geospatial, owner-operator, and educational communities, announced the release of its newest title, Water Loss Reduction. Written by a prestigious group of water loss experts from around the world, the book addresses the needs of water utility managers,
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Route Planner includes about 15,000 km cycling in an online tour planner. The Google-like map navigation is now available to cyclists the full potential of modern web mapping technology available. “Our development team has done it in a few weeks, a map application to develop, mainly in terms of usability sets new standards. “Ole Seidel, CEO of Geoinformatics alta4
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The Siemens Velaro high-speed train is in revenue service worldwide: It runs through Spanish deserts, travels under the hot sun in China and withstands the Russian winter. The latest generation of the supertrain, the Velaro D, will enter revenue service as the new Class 407 ICE 3 for Deutsche Bahn from the end of 2011.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
PCI Geomatics announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Satellite processing system to China’s Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA). The GXL system includes support for three commercial high resolution optical satellite sensors, and the ability to generate orthorectified tiled mosaic products at high speed using PCI’s multi-threaded and GPU
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
To coincide with ”European Maritime Day” on the 20th May 2011, SeaZone is launching a range of new services. Many of our customers request not only data, but advice on how the data can be best used to support their operations and business processes. SeaZone has acquired considerable experience and expertise in this area and consequently, we
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced new membership options for organizations based in emerging economies. To support the current trend toward more global participation in the OGC’s open standards process, the OGC has responded to requests for a fee structure that gives certain categories of organizations discounts based on their country of registration. These categories
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the release of Leica Active Assist for Leica Viva GNSS and Leica Viva Total Stations. With Leica Active Assist support engineers can now directly connect to a customer’s field system and see exactly what the customer sees. For difficult support cases, the support engineer guides the customer quickly back
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
With today’s contract signature, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA); Martin Zeil, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs; and Thorsten Rudolph, CEO of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) officially kicked off the GMES Masters innovation competition. The goal of this competition is to promote more widespread use of Earth observation data from the
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
With new capabilities and more than 100 customer-requested enhancements, Abaqus 6.11 delivers on SIMULIA’s strategic commitment to provide scalable, high-quality realistic simulation solutions. SIMULIA customers in a wide range of industries—including aerospace, automotive, consumer packaged goods, energy, and life sciences—are using Abaqus to explore the real-world physical behavior of products and materials, in order to
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Zeppelin University (ZU) and Tognum AG, the propulsion and power generation specialist, will join forces in the future: both have entered a cooperation agreement to establish a European Center for Sustainability Research (EZNaF). The ZU research center is destined to gain national and international recognition. “We regard sustainability as overall responsibility extending beyond the reaches
