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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Trimble Partners with Plexus for Enivironmental Industry Solutions

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Plexus Controls Corporation of Ottawa, Canada announced today that they have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of solutions that leverage positioning technology, wireless supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) solutions and mobile field management tools to enhance productivity for consultants and professionals in the environmental industry. Under the

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Property Loss Research Bureau Releases New Esri Mapping Service

Esri announces that the Catastrophe Services Department of the Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB) has released a mobile version of PLRB Map, a mapping service that provides real-time severe occurrence data and information to members of PLRB, an association of 900 property and casualty insurance companies. Esri Gold Tier partner GeoDecisions created this new service

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

TerraGo, Wiser Announce Strategic Partnership to Further Development of Enhanced Location Intelligence Solutions

Wiser Company(Wiser) and TerraGo announced a strategic partnership that will allow for the coupling of TerraGo’s location intelligence and geospatial collaboration solutions and Wiser’s analysis and visualization platform in order to advance location intelligence and foster situational awareness across a broad range of industries, including defense and intelligence, oil and gas, public safety, and state

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

PCI Geomatics Releases GXL 2013

PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today the release of its GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) 2013 – the latest version of the company’s proven, high-performance, and scalable image processing solution.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

American Sentinel University Details New Innovative Education Strategy at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

Educators and students have realized the benefits of online education, but now American Sentinel University’s new innovative educational strategy offers a way for students to explore given geospatial topics in greater depth that go beyond a typical classroom environment.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

MAPPS Applauds Introduction of FLAIR Act, a Bill to Create an Inventory of Federal Land Assets

A bi-partisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to create a current, accurate Federal inventory or “cadastre” of all Federal real property has earned praise from MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms. The Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (“FLAIR)” Act, H.R. 916, was introduced on February 28 by Representatives

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Avenza Releases MAPublisher 9.2 for Adobe Illustrator

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.2 for Adobe Illustrator. This exciting release includes a number of new and exciting product enhancements. Export has been improved and streamlined to

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Optech Announces New CS-6500 Aerial Digital Camera

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the release of its new CS-6500 aerial camera system.  A direct advance from the Optech CS-4800 camera, the CS-6500 inherits the CS-4800’s robust and proven design while providing enhancements and new features. As a

Monday, March 25th, 2013

OGC announces creation of Middle East and North Africa Forum

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the establishment of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Forum during the 84th Technical and Planning Committee meetings held in March 2013 in Abu Dhabi last week, hosted by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of the Interior.

Monday, March 25th, 2013

GIS Tools for Hadoop: Big Spatial Data Analytics for the Hadoop Framework

Looking at data without location, most of the time seems like looking at just part of a story. Including location and geography in analysis reveals patterns and associations that otherwise are missed. As Big Data emerges as a new frontier for analysis, including location in Big Data is becoming significantly important.