Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has teamed up with Liverpool, a leading, high-end department store in Mexico, to introduce GPS Zones in nine retail stores located in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. GPS Zones are interactive kiosks that help educate
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Geospatial software industry leader Intergraph will participate in several sessions and workshops at the INSPIRE 2010 Conference on June 22-25, in Krakow, Poland. The presentations draw on its consultant’s experience and insight gained on INSPIRE drafting teams and implantations of national SDI infrastructures and leading EU projects including NATURE-SDIplus, GIS4EU, CAFÉ. Learn More
Monday, June 21st, 2010
The German radar satellite TanDEM-X was successfully launched from Baikonur, Kazachstan, at 04.14 hrs CET on Monday, June 21, 2010. A first contact with a ground station in Troll was established at 04.45 hrs. TanDEM-X joins its “twin” TerraSAR-X, which has been in operation since mid 2007, in its 514 km orbit. Together, the two
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Autodesk, a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced the availability of Autodesk Topobase 2011 products and Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2011 software, new tools that help customers manage infrastructure assets more effectively and plan for the future. With these products, infrastructure professionals can get a broader understanding of the
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
A global alliance between Microsoft’s Vexcel Imaging GmbH and PCI Geomatics leverages the strengths of the two organizations to produce an end-to-end image processing system developed specifically for customers of Vexcel Imaging’s UltraCam series of high-resolution digital aerial cameras and UltraMap photogrammetric software. Read More
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Colortrac, the leading developer of affordable, professional wide format scanning and imaging solutions, will showcase a comprehensive range of advanced high definition SmartLF large format map and technical document scanners at the ESRI World-Wide User Conference in San Diego, California, the world’s biggest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, (14-16 July 2010, Booth, # 616 /
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Intermap will deliver NEXTMap data to the customer from its multi-client data library (MCDL). The customer will immediately receive a majority of the digital surface models (DSMs) that include cultural features (such as vegetation, buildings, and roads), digital terrain models (DTMs) that display the bare earth (with all cultural features digitally removed) and orthorectified radar
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Photogrammetric mosaics and other imagery processed by USGS have also been provided to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for incorporation into Department of Defense image libraries and are being used for economic analysis projects by theUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID)for construction and development projects and to the government of Afghanistan for a myriad of uses
Friday, June 18th, 2010
The boundaries between disciplines need to be stretched for the sake of environmental protection – environmental information a currency for environmental protection – leading world trade fair INTERGEO the driving force for a “connected community” Read MoreDr. Jens Riecken, Vice President of the DVW, was not slow to emphasize the key role played by Cologne.
Friday, June 18th, 2010
The high salinity of the Colorado River, which causes more than $300 million in damages per year according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was the focus of Tanya Petach’s winning entry into the 2010 Thacher Environmental Research Contest. The contest, an activity of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), awards cash prizes to
