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Monday, October 18th, 2010

Matt Walker Joins Astun Technology

Matt Walker has joined Astun Technology as Geospatial Technologist. He will be responsible for enterprise deployment of Astun’s range of web based GIS, data integration and publishing solutions to local authorities. Walker has spent most of his career to date working with spatial data specialists Dotted Eyes, where he became Technical Director. During his time there

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

USGIF Announces 2010 Scholarship Program Recipients

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today announced the recipients of its 2010 Scholarship Program, for what was the Foundation’s most competitive year yet. This year, the Foundation awarded $86,000 to 19 recipients. Four Ph.D. candidates, six master’s students, six undergraduates and three graduating high school seniors received scholarships from this year’s program. High

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Rand McNally Highlights New Software and Hardware Enhancements to TruckPC

Two weeks after announcing its investment in DriverTech, Rand McNally unveiled future enhancements for the TruckPC mobile fleet management solution at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition in Phoenix. Rand McNally Truck PC, powered by DriverTech, utilizes Rand McNally’s leading IntelliRoute® TND™ truck navigation on DriverTech’s secure, industry-tested, on-board computing platform.  The recently announced deal between the

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

New Soil-Water Reflectometers Offer Additional Measurements

The CS650, CS655, and CWS655, our newest soil-water reflectometers, feature many improvements over their predecessors. These improvements include the ability to measure bulk electrical conductivity (EC) and soil temperature in addition to soil-water content. Innovative techniques allow the new sensors to make accurate water-content measurements for a wider EC range (up to 3.7 dS/m) without

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

2010 Valuation Survey of Architecture, Engineering, Planning & Environment al Consulting Firms, Second Edition

The information in this report is based on over 225 actual valuations of A/E/P and environmental consulting firms! Each year, ZweigWhite conducts a nationwide survey to identify design and environmental firms that use an internal formula for valuation, that have been merged or acquired, or that have been appraised by an independent valuation consultant. These

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

New IBM Global R&D Lab to Open In Australia

IBM and the Australian and Victorian Governments today announced an agreement to establish a new research and development laboratory in Australia.vThe new IBM Global R&D Lab will be IBM’s first lab that combines research and development in a single organization focused on accelerating progress towards a smarter planet.  The new global research and development lab

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

TerraSAR-X and X-TanDEM in Close Formation Flight

Measuring the World in 3D – this goal is now the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and closer to the space company Astrium, a crucial step: The radar satellite tandem-X on 14.10.2010 with its “twin” TerraSAR-X the close formation flight passed. The two Earth observation satellites tracked at last at a distance of 20 kilometers. This

Friday, October 15th, 2010

New Zealand Modernizes its Infrastructure Network with Trimble GNSS Technology

Trimble announced today that the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS) and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) have jointly purchased 40 Trimble NetR9™ GNSS reference station receivers as part of a project to upgrade the LINZ PositioNZ GPS network to multi-constellation GNSS and real-time data distribution capability. LINZ is the government department responsible

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Google Adds Styled Maps for the Maps API for Flash

One of the first questions we were asked following the Google I/O session at which we launched Styled Maps in the JavaScript Maps API earlier this year was whether the feature would also be offered in the Maps API for Flash. I’m happy to announce that today we are doing just that. To use Styled

Friday, October 15th, 2010

New Solar Sensors from Kipp and Zonen

Several new Kipp and Zonen sensors are now available for solar-energy research applications. A complete solar monitoring station for research or solar prospecting typically measures global horizontal radiation (GH), direct normal irradiance (DNI), and diffuse radiation. For monitoring GH, Campbell Scientific offers the CMP6, CMP11, and CMP21 pyranometers. These pyranometers measure solar radiation with a high-quality