Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced that its Brazilian distributor, Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, has provided RapidEye images to the State of Minas Gerais. As part of the agreement, RapidEye became the sole provider of satellite imagery for three different coverage periods
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
NAVTEQ today launched a new product that promises to materially change the way navigation systems and applications interact with end users. NAVTEQ Natural Guidance™ breaks new ground by enabling guidance the way humans provide directions to each other—through the use of descriptive reference cues. NAVTEQ Natural Guidance leapfrogs today’s linear navigation instructions—e.g. ‘turn right in
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today signed the collaboration agreement with Taiwan GIS Center (TGIC) for a long-term partnership in promoting the development of geospatial technologies and applications. TGIC is a significant staff sector under the Council for Economic Planning and Development, the Executive Yuan. In charge of
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets are pleased to announce that both their upcoming BS7666 training courses and November’s Gazetteer Best Practice Day, ‘One Wales – One Voice’ have been accredited by the AGI (Association for Geographic Information). Attendance at either event will see the awarding of four AGI CPD points, which help those aiming to become
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that Athie | Wohnrath has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the use of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) process on more than 200 projects to date, including interior design, building design, retrofit and new construction. The award further recognizes the firm’s commitment to BIM through its employee training, implementation strategy and the
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Sparx Systems today announced that it will provide support to the Joint Research Centre(JRC) by making licenses of Enterprise Architect, the award winning UML modeling tool, available to the Spatial Data Infrastructure(SDI) unit. The mission of the JRC is to provide scientific and technical support for the development, and monitoring of EU policies. The SDI Unit
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) calls for participation in the OGC Web Services (OWS) Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (IE) to advance best practice for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services. Shibboleth is an open source software package released by the Internet2 Consortium based on the SAML standard from OASIS. The
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Kingdom of Jordan has successfully deployed Intergraph® public safety and security incident management software as part of a comprehensive, nationwide homeland security initiative to prevent and respond to local and regional terrorism threats and related security challenges. Intergraph’s public safety and security incident management software supports police, fire, and emergency response agency operations throughout
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The use of salt to deice pavement can leave urban streams toxic to aquatic life, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study on the influence of winter runoff in northern U.S. cities, with a special focus on eastern Wisconsin and Milwaukee. More than half of the Milwaukee streams included in this study had samples
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Beijing Power Information Technology Research Center, based in Beijing, China, has selected Intergraph® G/Technology and GeoMedia® WebMap to improve its smart grid operations. The technology will be used to support power grid design, centrally manage the lifecycle of power grid assets and enhance decision making through real-time monitoring and alarming. With these functions, the utility
