Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. announced that GeoEye Imagery Collection Systems Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GeoEye, Inc., has signed a procurement contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, an operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, to complete the development and construction of the GeoEye-2 satellite and the associated command and control system. Prior to entering this procurement
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
A German-Italian joint venture that includes Finmeccanica SpA won a 194 million-euro ($271 million) contract to support the European Union’s flagship satellite project, moving the EU closer to creating a rival to the U.S. GPS system. SpaceOpal GmbH, established by the German Aerospace Center and Finmeccanica’s Telespazio SpA unit, received the contract for the operations of the space
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Károly Róbert College tasked Envirosense, Hungary, to acquire the first hyperspectral and Lidar imagery of the disaster area. First ever “red mud” hyperspectralimages in remote sensing history enable to access the area of contamination with toxic spill in Hungary.SPECIM´s AisaEAGLE hyperspectral system from the College has been chosen to providethe complete coverage of the territory
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Murcott to the role of Geospatial Standards Leader within the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO). Richard joined Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and assumed his new role on 18 October. Representing a new position within the NZGO, the Geospatial Standards Leader administers the standards stream of
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
At the 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards, AAM was the recipient of both theJ.K Barrie Award: Overall Winner of all submissions in 2010 and the Infrastructure andConstruction Award. The J.K Barrie Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the spatialindustry and is the highest award the national panel of judges can confer. Given JK
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Alibre Inc. www.alibre.com, the award-winning developer of the world’s most affordable professional 3D design solutions, today announced a huge leap in 3D CAD design performance with the release of its latest version, Alibre Design 2011. Alibre Design 2011 now makes 3D designing easier and more robust with major enhancements, including a complete top to bottom
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
AfriSpatial, an expert GIS systems and services provider, and OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, today announced a reseller agreement that will bring the first Enterprise FOSS stack offering to the southern African market. AfriSpatial will assume first line support for the OpenGeo Suite for end users in countries throughout southern Africa, while gaining privileged
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Isfahan, Iran’s second city and a global Islamic cultural hub, has set its sights on becoming the Republic’s leading ‘e-municipality’ and a regional e-government leader. The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world’s largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT masterplan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
EDINA, a JISC-funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online Go-Geo! resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data repository. Workshop participants will also be introduced to a range of accessible web sources for spatial data. The workshop is part an effort
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
LEDAS Ltd today announced the release of version 4.0 of LGS 3D, its powerful geometric constraint solver. This is the core technology for parametric design software, allowing users to express their design intent in 3D parts and assemblies through geometric and dimensional constraints. Version 4.0 introduces important new functions that customers will find useful for assembly
