Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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, 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
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
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
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
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
The Washington Journal wraps up its week-long series on energy issues, with a conversation about solar power. Tom Rooney, the CEO of SPG Solar, the second largest solar company in the U.S., joins us today. He discusses the benefits of solar power and the incentives the government provides to encourage homeowners and utility companies to
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Esri have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU). The agreement supports the design and development of ways to share and access essential geographic environmental data provided by the agency’s 38 European member countries. EEA, which already uses Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) products, will now work closely with Esri to
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Trimble has acquired the assets of privately-held Accubid Systems based in Canada. Financial terms were not disclosed. Accubid’s family of software products allow electrical and mechanical contractors to analyse their estimates in great detail including CAD-based estimating and takeoff and then export the data into project management, accounting and procurement applications. The acquisition of Accubid
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems is pleased to announce that PT Barrata is now an official distributor of PCI products for customers in Indonesia. Located in Bandung, Indonesia, PT Barrata’s staff is focused on remote sensing and GIS related business. PT Barrata will promote PCI Geomatics technologies including Geomatica®
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Bluesky has added more than 100,000 aerial photographs to its online collection of historically important images following an agreement with Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) to supply the entire Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland photographic archive. The newly available archive includes complete countrywide coverage from 2002 onwards together with a vast array of mainly
