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Sunday, December 19th, 2010

ITT Completes Acquisition of EchoStorm Worldwide’s Business Operations

EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real time as well as address the common issues involved with system interoperability and bandwidth.

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

New Software Synchronises GPS Data with Tectonic Movements

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US government has developed specialist software that will help keep GPS surveying equipment up-to-date with the shifting of tectonic plates in continental North America. The agency’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has developed horizontal time-dependent positioning (HTDP) software, which allows for the estimation of horizontal velocities on

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

ESA Offers Channels On Lufthansa Flights

Passengers can now select between informative and relaxing ESA channels on Lufthansa flights. ESA’s new relaxation channel features Our Colorful Planet, a collage of spectacular Earth images set to meditative music. Beginning this month, ESA’s expanded onboard entertainment is a flowing presentation of Earth images from its Envisat satellite. The film, which had its debut

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

LizardTech Releases MrSID Decode SDK 8.0

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of the 8.0 version of the MrSID Decode SDK (DSDK) to complement the recent release of LizardTech GeoExpress 8. This SDK gives developers tools to support viewing files in the MrSID Generation 4

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California

At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists from NASA and other agencies presented the latest research on the magnitude 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, that region’s largest in nearly 120 years. Scientists have studied the earthquake’s effects in unprecedented detail using data from GPS, advanced simulation tools and new remote

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Linked Open Data and Spatial Data Infrastructures

For the first time, in countries that are opening up governmental data resources, geography experts have a common ground when talking standards with experts in statistics, health, transport and have something in common – i.e. linked data. Read More

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

MIS Active Partners with Cadcorp to Meet the Mapping Needs of the Social Housing Sector

GIS and web mapping software developer Cadcorp has been selected by MIS Active Management Systems to provide mapping and geographic information processing capabilities for its modular housing management solution – ActiveH. The partnership which was announced last month at the IT in Housing Exhibition, Olympia, London, brings together two British software suppliers with a common

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

France’s National Mapping Agency Licenses NEXTMap France Map Data from Intermap Technologies

Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, today announced a USD $804,518 contract with the national mapping agency of France, the Institut Géographique National (IGN). The Company will supply IGN with digital terrain models (DTMs), generated as part of its completed NEXTMap Europe countrywide mapping program, for portions of southeastern France

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

DigitalGlobe Announces Winners of Inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge

DigitalGlobe today announced the winners of the inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The five winning papers demonstrated scientific excellence in terms of sound reasoning, problem definition, methodology and presentation. In addition to the five winners, the judges identified 10 additional high-quality papers that presented compelling research into how 8-Band Imagery adds substantial value in a wide

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Getmapping ‘WMS’ Service Underpins Zubed Crime Mapping for Milton Keynes

A new community safety map for Milton Keynes, delivered by location intelligence specialists Zubed, is underpinned by a WMS (Web Mapping Service) feed of Ordnance Survey maps from Getmapping.