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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Geoimage Features as a Company to Watch in The Rust Report

Geoimage is a rapidly expanding geospatial imagery and services company, specialising in the supply of satellite imagery and GIS services to most industry sectors requiring ICT expertise. Geoimage works closely with industries such as mining and exploration, environment and agriculture, oil and gas as well as with all levels of government. Geoimage was first established

Monday, September 20th, 2010

OGC Calls for Participation in FAA SAA Information Dissemination Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot, sponsored by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA SAA Dissemination Pilot will extend the SAA SWIM  Services to enable the dissemination of SAA information

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Bentley Appoints Norbert Young, Jim Porter, and Patrick McCrory to New Bentley Infrastructure Ambassadors Council

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the launch of the Bentley Infrastructure Ambassadors Council. The newly appointed ambassadors will engage the global communities of practitioners, constituents, and organizations interested in the key challenges of and opportunities resulting from sustaining infrastructure. The ambassadors appointed by Bentley include Norbert Young, former leader of McGraw-Hill Construction; Jim Porter, former

Monday, September 20th, 2010

OpenGeo Announces Online Training for PostGIS, GeoServer & OpenLayers

OpenGeo, the leader in open source geospatial web services, announces a new training program to expand remote training support for users of the OpenGeo Suite around the globe.  Kicking off this week, the online training program will allow more people to tap into the open source ecosystem with these detailed courses developed by core software

Monday, September 20th, 2010

RapidEye Successfully Passes Operational Readiness Review for ESA

RapidEye announced today that it has successfully passed theOperational Readiness Review (ORR) for the European Space Agency (ESA).Integration software will now allow ESA and its user community efficient access toRapidEye’s five meter pixel sized, multi-spectual data through an interface allowing semi-automated product and metadata exchange between RapidEye’s ground segment andESA’s Coordinated Data Access System (CDS). ESA

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Exprodat Consulting Aims for 600 by the end of 2010

Alongside software and consulting services, Exprodat Consulting offers some of the most popular GIS-based training courses to the Oil & Gas industry. To prove their point,the company has just completed a course that included their 500th attendee. Such is thepopularity and value of their courses, the company expects to pass the 600 mark before theend

Monday, September 20th, 2010

HP Unveils World’s Most Collaborative Large-format Printer

HP today unveiled new products and solutions, including the world’s most collaborative printer,(1) that enable technical design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files online anytime, anywhere. The new suite of products helps design professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction industries collaborate across multiple locations, streamline processes and reduce costs. It includes:

Monday, September 20th, 2010

How to Save Time and Money in Street Naming and Numbering

The new, subscription version of the Street Naming and Numbering module from gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets, has been released. Known as Symphony SNN, it has been completely remodelled to make it a standalone product, which means Street Naming and Numbering Officers from Shetland to Cornwall can all enjoy the efficiency savings that it offers. The main power

Monday, September 20th, 2010

ALERT Flood Warning System Data Communications Gets First Upgrade in 30 Years by the National Hydrologic Warning Council

The National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) has released ALERT2™, a new standard for transmitting data designed to significantly improve accuracy and performance in systems and software used for early detection of floods and other water hazards around the world. ALERT, which stands for Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time, uses remote sensors to transmit environmental data via

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

New Spatial Land Use Planning System Launched

The Deputy Director of the Town and Country Planning, Mr. Lawrence Dakurah, explained that it has come as a responsibility of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) under the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST) charged with the mandate of planning and managing the growth and development of cities, town and villages in Ghana. The