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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

CompassData, Inc and Spatial Information Solutions Form Partnership

CompassData, Inc. is excited to announce that a reseller agreement has been signed with Mississippi based Spatial Information Solutions. Under this new agreement, Spatial Information Solutions and their Accuracy Analyst™ customers will have full access to the CDI archive of over 14,000 Ground Control Points. Accuracy Analyst™ version 2.0 provides software-based map accuracy and content enhancement solutions. CompassData

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Update for Bentley Substation V8i Reduces Cost of Ownership, Leverages Power of ProjectWise

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today released the V8i (SELECTseries 3) version of Bentley Substation, the first intra-operable software for intelligent electrical and physical substation design. Bentley Substation empowers project teams to design substations 30 percent faster than they typically can

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Applied Precision Announces Geomagic’s Version 12

Version 12 includes the familiar ribbon-style interface pioneered by Microsoft in Office 2007.  This improves greatly on the appearance of the software – making it more intuitive to learn and use. Geomagic Studio and Qualify 12 are now released.  They will ship with both 32- and 64- bit editions on the CD and support English,

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Autodesk 3ds Max Turns 20

In the coming months, we will re-live the most memorable product developments and celebrate the hundreds of films, games, television shows, and architectural designs that you and the software have helped bring to life.  We will also look to the future and show how new technological innovations will foster even greater creativity, productivity, and inspiration

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop Reflects New Functionality in ArcGIS 10

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop from Esri Press is a fundamental geographic information system (GIS) workbook that introduces the underlying principles of GIS within the context of a structured ArcGIS lesson plan. Originally published in 2001, this best-selling workbook has now been updated to ensure ArcGIS 10 compatibility. Written by a team of technical and education

Monday, July 26th, 2010

2010 Russian CAD Competition

Winners of the annual international competition “CAD in Construction 2010 or Rock at Sziget with ArchiCAD” were announced at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering.  First prize was awarded to Olga Khamatgalieva, a fourth-year student at Southern Federal University (Institute of Architecture and Art) in Rostov-on-Don. Read More

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Ordnance Survey Publishes Annual Report

Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals. National mapping agency publishes Annual Report and Accounts for 2009-10. Read More

Monday, July 26th, 2010

SwRI’s Underwater Cave-Mapping Sensor Wins Technology Award

Sensor technology developed to remotely characterize the path, dimensions and morphology of caves and other underground conduits and cavities has received a 2010 R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine selected Southwest Research Institute’s remote neutrally buoyant sensors as one of the 100 most significant technological achievements of the past year. Read More

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Remote Sensing for Newbies: Using Lidar

This week we learned how to import a .txt file of raw LiDAR point data into ArcMap, convert the data into a raster image in ArcMap and transfer that image back into ERDAS. This wasn’t so hard; the difficult parts for me in the challenge part of the lab were – Read More

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Sustainable City Modeling: Autodesk Announces New Release of LandXplorer

Autodesk has announcedthe release of LandXplorer Studio Professional 2011 and LandXplorer Server 2011.  The focus of the release is the integration of data from geospatial, engineering including BIM, and 3D visualization applications such as Civil 3D, Map 3D, Topobase, Revit,  and 3ds Max to create city-scale infrastructure models. Read More