Friday, June 11th, 2010
Hunt Oil Co.’s $3.8 billion Peru LNG plant may spur natural-gas exploration and attract investment to the Andean country, company Chairman Ray L. Hunt said today. Peru is one of 18 countries worldwide to build a liquefied natural gas facility and has the largest such plant in South America, Hunt said. He spoke in Pampa
Friday, June 11th, 2010
A new ESRI-powered mapping application allows anyone to freely create and share dynamicoil spill economic impact maps. The application allows individuals to visualize and understand the spill’s economic effects related to fishing, boating, tourism, and employment in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico. They can quickly create a precise economic impact map of the
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The project to “map the Earth in 3D” is now entering its final preparation stage as the German Earth observation satellite TanDEM-X is readied for launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On 21 June, at approximately 04:14:02 CEST, the satellite is due to be launched in to orbit at an altitude of 514 kilometres
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises GmbH has announced that the next version of License Statistics from X-Formation, v3.5, is now available. The new version of License Statistics includes more than 500 changes. License Statistics can help companies optimize their license usage and realize enormous cost savings in license costs. Read More
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The Spectrum Technology Platform uniquely aggregates core data assets across the enterprise. For example, a major insurance carrier uses Spectrum Technology Platform’s data quality and location intelligence functionality to blend demographic data, customer profiles and other proprietary information to create compelling customer messages, which are incorporated in customer correspondence and statements. The Pitney Bowes Spectrum
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Open GIS Web Map Service (WMS) is the standard of internet map service defined by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The standard provides a simple HTTP interface for users to acquire the map images, such as JPG, GIF, PNG from the published spatial database and display the images on the browser. Read More
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has delivered the first commercial high-resolution airport database of Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad’s Technical Services Division (MAHB). This product meets the new International Civil Aviation Organization’s Area-2 and Area-3 reporting
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
RapidEye announced today that the Dniprocosmos State Company, belonging to the Ukrainian Space Agency, has signed a contractual agreement with RapidEye to be its distributor for RapidEye data in the Ukraine. RapidEye and Dniprocosmos officially signed their contract today at the ILA Berlin Airshow 2010. The distribution agreement builds on an existing relationship between the
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
NASA’s first dedicated oceanographic field campaign goes to sea June 15 to take an up-close look at how changing conditions in the Arctic are affecting the ocean’s chemistry and ecosystems that play a critical role in global climate change. The “Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment” mission, or ICESCAPE,
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Spatial Energy and Intermap Technologies announced at the 2010 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary the integration of NEXTMap high-resolution countrywide elevation data into Spatial on Demand – the world’s largest energy-specific online database. Spatial on Demand is an enterprise geospatial data hosting application used to store, access, query, and retrieve a company’s corporate geospatial data,
