Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
At the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Barcelona this past week, OpenGeo announced the availability of its training materials online, licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike With Attribution license. Introductory workshops on the PostGIS spatial database, OpenLayers web mapping library, and the GeoServer map and feature server are all available
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) is a highly proactive organisation that represents the interests of commercial organisations involved in remote sensing. Formed in 1985, BARSC has an impressive track record of serving the interests of major companies, small and medium enterprises and independent consultants. The Executive Committee of BARSC works tirelessly to
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Orange and Nokia today announced a new integrated Ovi service that widens the developer ecosystem and gives Orange customers using Nokia handsets easier access to more content. Orange is integrating Ovi content with the best of its apps from the Orange Application Shop to give customers simpler, more secure access to a wider range of
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, announced today the release of their new 3D imaging product line, featuring the FARO 3D Imager AMP. The FARO 3D Imager AMP is a high performance non-contact 3D imaging system, capable of collecting millions of points in just seconds. Using
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Astrium Services has signed a ten-year partnership with the Russian research and development centre ScanEx for the reception and distribution rights on the upcoming SPOT 6 and 7 satellites. This partnership, which also provides ScanEx the exclusive reception and distribution rights on the SPOT 5 satellite, is part of a long term cooperation programme between
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Trimble introduced today the new Trimble® Juno™ SD handheld, an addition to the pocket-sized Juno series of durable, lightweight field computing devices with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. All Juno series models include integrated GPS, wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth® connectivity, a 3 Megapixel camera, a 533 MHz processor, 128 MB of onboard memory, a
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
REUTERS – Boston-based carbon and renewable energy company GTE Sustainable Energy Inc. has appointed Grattan MacGiffin as the head of its new London-based environmental commodity trading division, it said on Monday. “GTE Global Trading Limited was created in response to growing demand for access to credits from new carbon and environmental markets,” the company said. Read More
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Avineon Inc., a provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, has unveiled its Readiness Index tool. The Readiness Index provides businesses with the opportunity to measure their emergency preparedness and will be introduced through a series of Webinar demonstrations. The Readiness Index is a secure online system with the functionality to measure and monitor
Monday, September 13th, 2010
The latest release of Esri StreetMap Premium with NAVTEQ map data includes both an expansion of coverage to include Mexico and an advanced version with new data and functionality. The advanced version provides users with a greater level of precision for geocoding for the United States and additional routing capabilities for the United States, Canada,
Monday, September 13th, 2010
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting at this week’s 23rd annual GIS in the Rockies Conference in Loveland, Colo., in booth number 12 and the 2010 NW GIS User Conference in Spokane, Wash., in booth number 4. Learn More
