Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Isilon today announced that Aerial Services, Inc.(ASI) has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its aerial mapping and geospatial services workflow. Using the Isilon X-Series, ASI has unified its image processing and analysis onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to accelerate project delivery, while reducing operating costs. With Isilon, ASI has been
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has acquired PixelActive. The acquisition is an extension of NAVTEQ’s strategy to accelerate expansion from a 2D to 3D map, as well as providing further opportunity to leverage 3D technologies for all NAVTEQ products.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announced a sales achievement. SuperGeo Malaysia successfully promoted SuperGIS Desktop to Capai Cerah, a consultancy company in Malaysia. Established in Kuala Lumpur, Capai Cerah targets at project services for several government sectors in Malaysia. Capai Cerah provides environmental impact assessment consultancy services for
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Statkraft has decided to construct the Kargi hydropower plant in Turkey. The hydropower plant, which is planned to be completed at the end of 2013, will be Statkraft’s second plant in Turkey. With an installed capacity of 102 MW, Kargi will have an average annual generation of 467 GWh, enough to cover the electricity needs of
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Matrox Graphics Inc. unveils the ultimate building block for video wall controllers with the new Matrox Mura™ controller board, capable of capturing four full 1080p HD inputs and simultaneously driving four monitors at up to 2048×1080, while maintaining full RGB 888 image quality.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
How to Increase Production Throughput Using GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial – GXL-A: a high volume image production solution that extends UltraMap for high speed Ortho and Mosaic creation. In October 2010, PCI Geomatics and Vexcel Imaging GmbH introduced the GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A), a new high speed production solution that extends the UltraMap photogrammetric workflow software to provide
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a new URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community. The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who represent the young membership of the organization. The Cabinet’s
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Geneq Inc., the pioneer in high-performance single frequency GPS mapping systems, announced one of the world’s smallest dual frequency (GPS L1/L2) GPS RTK receivers for high-accuracy GIS data collection. Named the SXBlue III GPS, it is one of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing slightly more than one pound (517g)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, and community boards (CB). A key reason for the inclusion of
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, Version 2.0. The OGC WCS 2.0 standard defines a standard interface and operations that enable interoperable access to geospatial coverages. “Coverages”( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary/c ) are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, digital
