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Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Fugro Starts Major Multi-client Survey in the Netherlands

Fugro Multi Client Services has started the NL-DEF-3d multi-client survey in the Netherlands. This major multi-client 3D survey, is designed to provide modern 3D long offset seismic data to boost exploration in the Dutch D, E and F blocks of the North Sea. The survey is covering over 6,000 sq.km extending from the UK until

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

EU INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting Results Published

DEFRA – EU Member States have to report annually a number of indicators for monitoring the implementation and use of their infrastructures for spatial information. The information provided includes a list of spatial data sets and services belonging to those infrastructures. Read More

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Factual, Inc. Delivers Location Data to Social Web Service Providers

Home Junctions’ SpatialMatch is an advanced geo-spatial lifestyle search platform for real estate agents, brokers, and Multiple Listing Service (MLS). As part of the partnership, Factual will provide Home Junction with US POI (points of interest) data and crowdsourcing tools to leverage the knowledge of real estate agents at the hyper-local neighborhood level to keep

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Ag Leader Announces New GPS 2500 GNSS Receiver

Ag Leader Technology, Inc. introduced its latest GPS offering, the GPS 2500 all-in-one antenna and GNSS receiver. The new GPS 2500 features a dual frequency receiver and the capability to receive WAAS/EGNOS, OmniSTAR XP/HP/VBS and GLONASS satellite signals. The receiver also supports e-Dif for areas where other differential signals aren’t available. “Providing the option for OmniSTAR

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

OTrack-32- BD/GPS/GLONASS Multi-GNSS Baseband Chip

The OTrack-32™ is a highly integrated baseband chipset with low power and high-performance GPS/GLONASS/BD solution.  Owing to over than 1 million powerful correlator designs, OTrack32 is capable of receiving multi-band GNSS radios simultaneously up to four groups and processing signals concurrently to make multiple constellation navigation possible within a single chip. Read More

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Seawater Chemistry Changing Rapidly

Manmade ocean acidification will have profound impacts on marine life, even without a further increase of CO₂ emissions. Latest evidence shows that sea water chemistry is already changing and only rapid and huge reductions of fossil fuel use and deforestation can help restore ocean’s health, according to IUCN. A new guide, Ocean Acidification: Questions Answered,

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Leica CEO Jürgen Dold Cautiously Optimistic About Economic Recovery

While the weather didn’t quite comply for attendees hoping to get some sunny warmth during their trip here to the Leica Geosystems user conference, held Oct. 25 through 28, few could say Leica didn’t pack plenty of content into the four-day event. Hosted by Leica Geosystems senior VP of strategic marketing Geoff Jacobs, the conference’s

Friday, November 5th, 2010

France – Mapping the Coastline with Litto3D

IGN and the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of the Navy (SHOM) have developed the program Litto3D which maps continuously the coastal land and marine extension immediately. Read More

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Vue 9 for CG Professionals now shipping

Vue 9 is the most efficient and advanced solution for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments. It offers a high-end 3D scenery solution for SFX studios, animators, illustrators, architects, matte painters and CG professionals. It is strongly focused on power, productivity and inter-operability with existing toolkits. Vue 9 naturally integrates and extends all major 3D applications

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Mentor Graphics Announces FloTHERM Software with Industry’s First Thermal Analysis Bottleneck

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced industry-first capabilities in the next generation of its FloTHERM® 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling applications. The patent-pending technology in the FloTHERM software provides Bottleneck (Bn) and Shortcut (Sc) fields so that, for the first time, engineers can now identify where heat flow congestion occurs in the electronic