Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Exprodat has released version 202 of Team-GIS Segment Analyst and for the first time geoscientists are able to rely on a single toolkit to create common risk segment (CRS) maps while mapping play fairways. The release contains major new functionality including support for raster and contour datasets as inputs, the ability to apply weightings to
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
DiMAC sprl, a leading manufacturer of high-performance digital airborne mapping cameras, is proud to announce that MapSoft Ltd. has purchased a new camera, mount and Flight Management System (FMS) combination. This is the first integration of a unique combination consisting of a DiMAC ULTRALiGHT+ camera featuring a 70-mm lens, an AeroStab-3 gyro-stabilized mount and the
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Spot Image Corporation, part of Astrium Services’ GEO-Information division, has been chosen to provide satellite imagery for the first Alaska statewide mapping program in more than 25 years. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded the $3.45 million Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI) contract to Aero-Metric, Inc. of Anchorage, who will use SPOT
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Episode 1 of the Penn State Public Broadcasting’s (PSPB) four-part online video series, “The Geospatial Revolution Project,” is now available in its entirety or in shorter chapters at Penn State Public Broadcasting’s website, http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu. The 13-minute episode, which is divided into four chapters, begins with an overview and moves into how GPS works. Following a
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in 2011, NOAA has assembled a special historical collection of maps, charts, and documents prepared by the U.S. Coast Survey during the war years. The collection, “Charting a More Perfect Union,” contains over 400 documents, available free from NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey website. Read
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
The Russian Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Mapping (Rosreestr) summed up eight contests for the creation of digital navigation maps of Russia, reports Vedomosti. Half of all contracts, worth more than RUB 1.19 billion, will be provided by the company RTI Systems (to create maps of the Central, Volga, Urals and Northern Districts
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
In engineering and land surveying enough accuracy of the U.S. NAVSTAR GPS and Russian GLONASS system of 10 meters is not the best. A higher precision is ensured using SAPOS services of the Association of Surveying Authorities of the participating countries. The identification of coordinate differences to SAPOS reference points, the system calculates correction values. Read More
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Contour, a market leader in hands-free video cameras, has selected u-blox’ GPS technology to usher in a new era of location-based video. The addition of u-blox GPS to the ContourGPS video camera adds a new layer of excitement to adventure videos enabling consumers to show their friends where they went, track their journey, and discover new
Monday, October 11th, 2010
IKONOS, the world’s first commercial, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and currently operated by GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq:GEOY), has achieved 11 years of successful on-orbit operations. A first-of-its-kind satellite, IKONOS was launched on Sept. 24, 1999 to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth for worldwide commercial and government customers. The spacecraft
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Preparations for GIS-IDEAS are going on and the details schedule will be released at the end of October 2010. The deadline for submission of full paper is Oct 15th 2010. Please see submission guidelines at http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas10/submit.php and if you have difficulty in uploading full-paper as PDF, please contact [email protected] The selected abstract are listed at http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas10/papers.php?first_letter=all The authors and participants are expected to complete advance register for the
