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Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Velodyne Introduces HDL-32E LiDAR Sensor

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced the introduction of the HDL-32E to meet the demand for a smaller, lighter, and less expensive product for autonomous vehicle and mobile mapping applications.  The HDL-32E will be on display in booth 2416 at the AUVSI show, held August 24 – 26, 2010 at the Colorado Convention Center. The HDL-32E extends

Friday, August 20th, 2010

NOAA Researcher Wins ‘Equivalent’ of Nobel for Sustainable Development

NOAA Fisheries scientist Kenneth Sherman is one of two 2010 recipients of the Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development, considered the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Sherman, recognized for his work on large marine ecosystems, will share the award with Costa Rican activist Randall Arauz in a ceremony in Göteborg, Sweden on November 17. Read

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

SuperGeo Technologies Launch SuperWebGIS 3 Globally

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially release SuperWebGIS 3, the latest Internet Map Server Software, to assist enterprises in publishing dynamic maps and spatial data efficiently via the Web. Compared with the older version, SuperWebGIS 3 has highly scalable framework, complete GIS objects, and various types of website templates,

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

3-GIS to Increase Presence in Electric Utility Market With Addition of Executive Solutions Consultants

3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company has announced the addition of two new teammembers to the business development department.  Burl Rowland and Dustin Sutton join 3-GIS as Executive Solutions Consultants. Rowland and Sutton will concentrate their efforts in increasing 3-GIS product awareness in the electric cooperative and municipality sectors; furthering the 3-GIS

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

3D Laser Mapping Opens New Headquarters

3D Laser Mapping has opened a new  global headquarters near Nottingham, UK, following continued expansion of its  worldwide laser scanning solutions business. This relocation to larger premises will allow for development of a dedicated research and development facility together with the capacity and capability for equipment testing and calibration.  The new premises will also provide

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Ordnance Survey Launches OS Insider Newsletter

OS Insider is the brand new newsletter highlighting some of the projects currently being worked on at Ordnance Survey. Available on the Ordnance Survey blog, it has been created to keep you informed about everything that is happening inside Great Britain’s national mapping agency. The first edition of OS Insider focuses on some of the innovative uses

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

SSE Telecoms Implements GE’s Smallworld Network Inventory Solution

SSE Telecoms, the telecoms business ofScottish and Southern Energy, has selected GE’s Smallworld NetworkInventory solution as their asset management system, GE announced today.The Smallworld Network Inventory solution will increase the efficiencyand accuracy of network access records to enable a new level of customerservice across SSE Telecoms 8000km UK-wide fiber optic network. “We selected GE’s Smallworld Network

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Santiago & Cintra Consultoria Expands Distribution Territory in South America

RapidEye announced today that Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, its distributor in Brazil, will now have an expanded sales territory in South America which includes the countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of RapidEye commented, “Santiago & Cintra Consutoria has strongly and successfully organized and developed the Brazilian market for RapidEye data since becoming

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Leica Geosystems introduces SpiderWeb v4.0 – Value added Web Services for GNSS Networks

Untitled Document Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce Leica SpiderWeb v4.0 aspart of the new reference station software update that also includes Leica GNSS Spider v4.0 andLeica SpiderQC v4.0. SpiderWeb v4.0 features an all-new Business Center web portal combinedfor SpiderWeb and GNSS Spider Network RTK Services and the unique Coordinate ComputationService has been further enhanced. Leica

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

NASA Awards Grants for Global Climate Change Education

Untitled Document NASA has awarded USD7.7 million in cooperative agreements to seventeen organisations across the United States to enhance learning through the use of NASA’s Earth science resources. The winning proposals in the Global Climate Change Education Awards illustrated innovative approaches to using NASA content in elementary, secondary and undergraduate teaching, and lifelong learning. The