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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

PCI Geomatics Welcomes the German GeoConsultants Group (3G) as a Reseller

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, is happy to announce the appointment of The German GeoConsultants Group (3G) as a local reseller for PCI’s Geomatica® and GeoConference® family of products for the Libya and Tunisia regions. 3G joins over forty other PCI Reseller Partners responsible for the distribution of PCI

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

New Leica XPro 5.0 – Digital Surface Models (DSM) And Stereo-viewable Frame Images from Airborne Line Sensor Imagery

Leica Geosystems, a leading manufacturer of airborne sensors, announces a DSM extraction module for its leading line sensor workflow Leica XPro, which provides advanced ground processing from data download to image generation.  In addition, users of Leica XPro V5.0 can now generate stereo-viewable frame images from line sensor data acquired with the Leica ADS Airborne

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

SuperWebGIS 3 Supports Load Balancing Mechanism

SuperWebGIS 3 is a set of map server software assisting enterprises in publishing dynamic maps and spatial data to the Internet. However, when the demand of spatial data volume increase and users on client side have more and more service demands, a single server will become overloaded. Therefore, load balancing become an essential role in

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

FARO Introduces the Focus3D – the Smallest and Lightest 3D Laser Scanner Ever Built

FARO Technologies, Inc.er of portable me introduces the new FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. Focus3D is a revolutionary, high-performance 3D laser scanner for detailed measurement and documentation with intuitive touch screen control that makes it as easy to operate as a digital camera. It is four times lighter and five times smaller than its predecessor and is

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Ashtech Introduces Web Mission Planning

Ashtech® today announced at Intergeo the immediate availability of Web Mission Planning, the first self-contained, completely automatic web-accessible GNSS survey planning tool. Anyone, anywhere can log in at www.ashtech.com and use the survey-planning tool free of charge to determine satellite visibilities. The new tool developed by Ashtech uses Google Earth mapping and is inter-active and completely

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

NASA Ames Scientists Train the Next Generation of Earth Explorers

For the last eight years, NASA Ames Earth Science Division has been participating in a student internship program called DEVELOP. Funding comes through the Applied Sciences Program in the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Head Quarters. It is a training and development program that provides an opportunity for talented science

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Ushahidi and Esri Team to Improve Crisis Mapping Services

Esri today announced a partnership with Ushahidi that will improve the collection and use of crowd-sourced information during large-scale emergencies. Ushahidi is a nonprofit organization that allows local observers to submit reports to the Ushahidi Web platform using their mobile phones or the Internet during a crisis. Esri is providing software, services, and training to

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Ms. Baojuan Zheng is the Grand Prize Winner of the ASPRS Membership Nomination Campaign

Ms. Bauojuan Zheng is the Grand Prize Winner of the ASPRS Membership Nomination Campaign in a drawing held October 1.   Zheng a student at Virginia Tech, was selected at random from all ASPRS members who recently nominated colleagues for a six-month complimentary membership in ASPRS.  The prize is a complimentary conference registration, free roundtrip (domestic)

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

TerraGo Technologies® and Procalculo Prosis S.A. Partner to Distribute TerraGo Software in Colombia

TerraGo Technologies®, a leading provider of geospatial collaboration software solutions, and Procalculo Prosis, Colombia’s leading company for GIS and related technologies, have signed a distribution agreement to sell and service TerraGo’s full suite of software solutions in Colombia. The agreement reinforces TerraGo’s plans for expanding the global distribution of its software, which uniquely generates highly

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

NASA, USAID Expand Environmental Monitoring System to Another Continent

NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development have expanded their successful collaboration with international partners to launch an innovative, web-based environmental management system for the Himalaya region. The partners inaugurated this state-of-the-art regional monitoring system, known as SERVIR-Himalaya, at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal on Oct. 5.  NASA Administrator