Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) recently hosted their annual lunch at The Bluebird restaurant on London’s fashionable King’s Road. Attendees were treated to three courses of superb food served in the luxurious surroundings of the private Beaufort Room, as well a fascinating presentation from James Bamford and Johannes Kebeck of Bing Maps.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Esri president Jack Dangermond received the Arthur C. Lundahl Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) last week in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dangermond accepted the award at the 2010 GEOINT Symposium, the nation’s premier geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) event. The nonprofit USGIF hosts the symposium as part of its mission to promote
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial geospatial information and services, announced today strong revenue results for its fiscal third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2010. Total revenues were $86.5 million for the third quarter of 2010, an 8.1% increase from $79.9 million for the third quarter of 2009. Learn More
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
With over 60 delegates from 35 different organisations, the latest Gazetteer Best Practice Day from Aligned Assets has been declared a resounding success. Held at the Media Resource Centre in Llandrindod on 2nd November, it saw six presentations focusing on best practice in gazetteers, all against the backdrop of unique complexities faced by the public sector
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri, making ArcGIS software tools available for unlimited use by authorized NASA employees and contractors. The agreement reflects NASA’s extensive and growing use of Esri’s ArcGIS software to bring geospatial intelligence to a wide variety of mission-critical efforts, from streamlining operations
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps and location-based services, is celebrating 25 years at the forefront of industry. Having begun operations in 1985, the company today holds over 400 patents and supplies data to over 1700 customers across the globe. Since the opening of its first Asia-Pacific (APAC) office in Japan in 1996, NAVTEQ has
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Trimble introduced today the new Trimble® Municipal Reporter™ system, a complete hosted solution for managing issues found throughout a municipality, including potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, pest infestation and illegal dumping. The Municipal Reporter system provides an accurate and consistent data archive of all issues managed in the system, allowing city officials to generate reports and
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the third quarter ended September 30, 2010, Hemisphere GPS reported a 46% increase in revenues to $13.2 million compared to $9.1 million in the third quarter of 2009.
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Web GIS: Principles and Applications, the latest offering from Esri Press, is an important resource for geographic information system (GIS) students and professionals who want to learn state-of-the-art concepts, architectures, and techniques for working with Web-based GIS applications.
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises, a geo-spatial and engineering services company, has acquired the US-based Wellsco Inc, a telecom engineering Services Company , with an annual run rate of $12 million. “We have acquired the US firm in an all-cash deal. We expect additional revenues of $10-12 million in the financial year 2010-11 for Infotech. This is a crucial
