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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

SuperGeo Partners with Taiwan GIS Center

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

Aligned Assets’ Events and Training Receive AGI Accreditation

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

Athie | Wohnrath Earns Autodesk BIM Experience Award

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 Supports European Joint Research Centre Standards Development

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

OGC Calls for Participation in the OWS Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment

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

Intergraph Software Aids Kingdom of Jordan in Incident Management, Homeland Security Initiatives

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

Many Urban Streams Harmful to Aquatic Life Following Winter Pavement Deicing

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 Selects Intergraph Geospatial Technology

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

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Landis+Gyr Announces Software Reseller Agreement with Grid Net

Landis+Gyr today announced the signing of a software reseller agreement with Grid Net™, a leading global real-time, all-IP Smart Grid and Smart Home software platforms provider. Under this agreement, Landis+Gyr will offer Grid Net’s PolicyNet SmartGrid NMS™ and SmartNOS™ software platforms, and PolicyNet SmartAgents™ as key software components of its open standards based, highly secure, Smart

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Clark Labs receives funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Support the Development of REDD Tools

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a grant of $451,000 to Clark Labs in support of their current work with Google.org in the development of on-line tools for REDD projects. REDD, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, is a climate change mitigation strategy that offers developing countries and others incentives to reduce