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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

TechAdvantage 2013: 3-GIS goes Live in New Orleans

While New Orleans may be winding down from Mardi Gras, the city is just about to get started with the TechAdvantage Conference & Expo 2013. 3-GIS, a global leading GIS software solutions company headquartered in Decatur, Alabama will be exhibiting at the event and previewing 3-GIS Live, its new cloud delivery model, February 18-21 at

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Intergraph Announces Launch of Geospatial SDI 2013

Intergraph announces the release of Geospatial SDI 2013 as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013.  An interoperable and scalable spatial data infrastructure for cataloging and delivering enterprise geospatial data over the web, Geospatial SDI 2013 is designed for data providers that need to manage and serve secure or licensed information using standards-based web services.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Bentley Pointools’ Powerful Visualization Technology Uncovers Prehistoric Artwork on Stonehenge

Bentley Systems announced that its innovative Bentley Pointools technology was used to visualize and analyze the most detailed laser scan survey ever conducted of historic Stonehenge – one of the world’s oldest built environments. The laser scan with point spacing of 0.5 millimeters resulted in an enormous data resource of 850 gigabytes. The task of further

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

TechAdvantage Forecast Calls for Cloud GIS

Esri experts and users will be at TechAdvantage Conference and Expo February 18–20 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to show utilities how easy it is to get started with cloud GIS. TechAdvantage will bring together more than 650 electric cooperative engineering, operations, energy services, and IT professionals.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Cryosat Reveals Major Loss of Arcti Sea Ice

An international team of scientists using new measurements from ESA’s ice mission has discovered that the volume of Arctic sea ice has declined by 36% during autumn and 9% during winter between 2003 and 2012.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Optech Delivers Two LiDAR Systems to Cobb Engineering Company

Optech is pleased to announce the sale of an Optech Lynx M1 Mobile Mapper and an Optech ILRIS Terrestrial Laser Scanner to Cobb Engineering Company (CEC) in Oklahoma, USA.

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Optech Aerial Cameras to be Delivered to Kenyan Survey Department

Optech announced that its local agent, Citimax Technologies Ltd, has won a Kenyan government public tender to supply a state-of-the-art digital aerial camera system and compatible photogrammetric ground system. The fully equipped aerial survey platform will be delivered to Kenya’s Department of Resource Survey and Remote Sensing (DRSRS), within the Ministry of Environment and Mineral

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Leica Geosystems Call for Papers for “HxGN LIVE 2013” International Conference

Leica Geosystems is seeking presentations for its sessions at HxGN LIVE 2013, formerly known as “Hexagon Conference”, to be held 3-6 June 2013, at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Following the spectacular success of last year’s Hexagon 2012 conference, HxGN LIVE 2013 will again feature a global gathering of users and experts from all

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Blue Marble to Showcase Powerful Global Mapper 14.1 LiDAR Processing Capability at ILMF

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) from February 11-13 in Denver, CO.  Blue Marble will showcase new and improved LiDAR features and functions including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from tens of millions of points