Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The OpenTopography Facility, a collaboration between the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and Arizona State University, will participate in a five-year, $4.4 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to form a collaborative software framework for analysis of geographic data that will benefit many fields of research, from archaeology to urban
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Esri is working with NetHope to make technology more accessible and applicable to its members. Esri supports NetHope by providing geographic information system (GIS) software and support via the Esri Nonprofit Organization Program, collaborating with technology leaders such as Intel and developing GIS solutions for humanitarian relief. Learn More
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
The National Geographic Institute of Argentina has purchased an UltraCamXp large-format camera system as part of a transaction with Vexcel Imaging reseller GeoToolBox Ibérica S.L. (GTBi) based in Madrid, Spain, brokered by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The UltraCamXp will be utilized to finish collecting topographic data of Argentina for the national map and
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
LizardTech is offering weekly informative webinars titled “Overview of LizardTech Express Suite & LiDAR Compressor.” The upcoming webinars will focus in particular on recently launched GeoExpress 8, which introduces the MrSID® Generation 4 (MG4™) format for compression of raster data, adding support for multispectral data, alpha channels and improved mosaicking. The free webinars are aimed at
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by his decree approved the development strategy of the Russian Federation in the Antarctic until 2020. and a more distant prospect. Reported by the press service of the Russian government. Under the decree, the objectives of the strategy are the realization of national interests of Russia in the Antarctic, in accordance with the norms
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Motion F5v Rugged Tablet for field use now bundled with CRESTdata capture software Special CREST bundle* Crest is a powerful software solution for interactiveasset mapping, data capture & condition surveys. Designed to interface to a variety of asset management and corporate systems to take your office to the field.Crest is the ideal software solution for
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
At the Beginning of November, Leica Geosystems AB, Sweden, and Swepos signed an agreement for the data exchange of GNSS raw data. Swepos is the national GNSS network provider in Sweden, which is operated and owned by the Swedish government organisation LANTMÄTERIET (National Land Survey). The Swepos network covers the whole country, offering GNSS-correction data from
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Digital Map Products (DMP), a leading provider of cloud-based spatial technology solutions, today announced RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI) selected DMP’s development platform, SpatialStream™, to power the mapping in its cutting edge real estate analytics offerings. RBI, a data analytics company and wholly owned subsidiary of Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc (MRIS), is using SpatialStream™ to
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Gabriel Roldan, Geospatial Solutions Consultant at OpenGeo, will speak Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at the seventh annual Latinoware conference in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Mr. Roldan’s talk, entitled “Building Enterprise SDI with GeoNode” will discuss the development of collaborative spatial data infrastructures using GeoNode, OpenGeo’s new open source SDI platform. The presentation is aimed at
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. announced today strong revenue results for its fiscal third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2010. “For the third quarter, we delivered strong revenue growth, operating margins and adjusted EBITDA results,” said Matt O’Connell, chief executive officer and president. “The recent award of a ten-year EnhancedView contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), worth up to
