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Monday, July 26th, 2010

2010 Russian CAD Competition

Winners of the annual international competition “CAD in Construction 2010 or Rock at Sziget with ArchiCAD” were announced at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering.  First prize was awarded to Olga Khamatgalieva, a fourth-year student at Southern Federal University (Institute of Architecture and Art) in Rostov-on-Don. Read More

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Ordnance Survey Publishes Annual Report

Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals. National mapping agency publishes Annual Report and Accounts for 2009-10. Read More

Monday, July 26th, 2010

SwRI’s Underwater Cave-Mapping Sensor Wins Technology Award

Sensor technology developed to remotely characterize the path, dimensions and morphology of caves and other underground conduits and cavities has received a 2010 R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine selected Southwest Research Institute’s remote neutrally buoyant sensors as one of the 100 most significant technological achievements of the past year. Read More

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Remote Sensing for Newbies: Using Lidar

This week we learned how to import a .txt file of raw LiDAR point data into ArcMap, convert the data into a raster image in ArcMap and transfer that image back into ERDAS. This wasn’t so hard; the difficult parts for me in the challenge part of the lab were – Read More

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Sustainable City Modeling: Autodesk Announces New Release of LandXplorer

Autodesk has announcedthe release of LandXplorer Studio Professional 2011 and LandXplorer Server 2011.  The focus of the release is the integration of data from geospatial, engineering including BIM, and 3D visualization applications such as Civil 3D, Map 3D, Topobase, Revit,  and 3ds Max to create city-scale infrastructure models. Read More

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Bionatics Introduces LandSIM3D V2 in Scandinavia

Bionatics, the technology leader in 3D territory modelingsoftware, announces the introduction in Scandinavia of the latest release of LandSIM3D, its 3Dsimulation and visualization software dedicated to city and territory planning as well as landscapepreservation. The introduction will be managed by Mr Enrico RAUE, Area Sales Manager, and a nativeSwedish speaking employee at Bionatics. The version

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Esri Map Book Encapsulates 25 Years of GIS Development

Esri has published volume 25 of its popular Map Book series. This commemorative edition includes a “then and now” section that compares similar maps from the 25-year period, making it of particular interest to cartographers, geographic information system (GIS) professionals, and geography students. “This year’s map book marks a milestone,” says Jack Dangermond, Esri president. “For

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

3D Model of the Future TGV Station of Valencia (Spain)

The ADIF, Administrator of the Spanish Railway Infrastructures, makes discover the future TGV station of Valencia (Spain) thanks to a real-time 3D modeling realized with the NOVA for 3ds Max of VERTICE solution, solution of creation and visualization of interactives 3D contents. Read More  

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Astrium expands its Geo-information services in Greece

Astrium has strengthened its presence in Greece by creating thecompany Spot Infoterra Hellas, a provider of geo-information products and services. The Greek company Geomet, a long-standing partner of Spot image and Infoterra in Greece, will be merged into the new entity. Through this move, the two recently merged subsidiaries of Astrium Services continue their expansion in

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Sunshine Village Ski Resort Outfits Their Snowcat Fleet With Hemisphere GPS

Sunshine Village, a progressive ski resort located in Banff, Alberta experienced real value in the productivity and performance benefits of the Hemisphere GPS’ snow grooming guidance systems. As a result, they have started to outfit their entire snowcat fleet with the guidance systems. Hemisphere GPS’ integrated GPS-based guidance terminal and antenna are easily mounted to