Thursday, July 18th, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France. MDA will provide a RADARSAT-2 ground station and three years of RADARSAT information. The station will be installed in Bali, Indonesia, providing
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Trimble introduced today new functionality and configuration options for the Juno T41 rugged handheld computer. In addition to a handheld computer and smartphone configuration, the series now includes high-speed 1D/2D barcode imaging technology and enhanced, real-time 1-2 meter GPS accuracy.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
Developers using Ordnance Survey’s OS OpenData products have been busy accessing the organisation’s new Linked Data service.The enhanced Linked Data service, which provides more flexibility and ease when using the free geographic datasets, is proving popular with hundreds of developers already accessing datasets and the new features. In the first month the new site received
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the charter for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG). The new SWG will revise the Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, an existing OGC standard for documenting Earth Observation (EO) product metadata. It will also develop a new, related standard to extend the
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
1Spatial Group Limited today announced that 1Spatial Management Suite Version 1.0 and Radius Studio Version 2.3 have achieved Oracle Exadata Ready and Oracle Exalogic Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). 1Spatial is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images of Earth at five-minute intervals. That means that GOES-R will be able to image everything it can see in the same length of time it takes the current GOES (short for Geostationary Operational
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the SASGI Conference being held this year in Johannesburg on July 23-24.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
A new USGS groundwater model provides a tool for evaluating possible solutions to the saltwater encroachment in the “2,000-foot” sand aquifer of the Baton Rouge area, an important source of groundwater for Baton Rouge. The just-released computer model simulates groundwater flow in the two primary sections of Baton Rouge’s aquifer, the “1,500-foot” and “2,000-foot” sands.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
On July 23, Dr. Kevin Montgomery, CEO of Intelesense Technologies will join Patrick Hogan, Project Director for NASA WorldWind in a keynote speech entitled “NASA World Wind Infrastructure for Spatial Data”. During this presentation, Dr. Montgomery will provide an overview of the world’s first geospatial platform for geospatial computing and collaboration, Collaborate.org, while Mr. Hogan
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
On Monday, July 8, the California Supreme Court ruled that Orange County must provide spatial databases to outside parties in their original form as complete electronic databases, such as a geodatabase, rather than simply in a readable version, such as a printed copy or a PDF file. The Court also decided that the data must
