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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces GeoMedia 2013

Intergraph announces the upcoming release of GeoMedia 2013 as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013. A powerful GIS management package that enables users to realize the maximum value of their geospatial resources, GeoMedia 2013 will provide further simultaneous access to geospatial data in almost any form, uniting them in a single map view for efficient processing, analysis, presentation

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Optech Announces Release of New Pegasus HA500 ALTM for High Density, High Altitude Mapping

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the release of the Optech Pegasus HA500 ALTM, a purpose-built wide-area mapping sensor that is expressly focused on maximizing collection efficiency.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

EPA Appoints 11 New Members to the National Environmental Education Advisory Council

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has appointed 11 environmental education professionals to serve on the agency’s National Environmental Education Advisory Council (NEEAC). The National Environmental Education Advisory Council is comprised of representatives from organizations outside the federal government who provide EPA with advice and recommendations on environmental education. The council provides EPA

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Esri Supports USAID-Funded Center for Managing Foreign Assistance Data

Esri will provide software, data, online services, training, and professional services support to theAidData Center for Development Policy. The center, which will be headquartered at the College of William & Mary (W&M) in Williamsburg, Virginia, will seek to dramatically increase global aid transparency. It was created with a five-year, $25 million award from the United

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

GeoEye Shareholders Approve Combination with DigitalGlobe

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced today that its shareholders have approved the proposal to combine GeoEye with DigitalGlobe (the “Merger Proposal”). At a special meeting of GeoEye shareholders held earlier today, 98.3% of the shares voting at the special meeting voted in favor of the Merger Proposal.  

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

Retired GIOVE-A Satellite Helps SSTL Demonstrate First High Altitude GPS Navigation Fix

An experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300km altitude – the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite. The SGR-GEO receiver is collecting data that could help SSTL to develop a receiver to navigate spacecraft in Geostationary orbit (GEO)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

INTERGEO International Growth Continues

The 18th INTERGEO in Hanover saw increased numbers of international visitors and exhibitors and the successful inclusion of the first National INSPIRE Conference, the CLGE (Council of European Geodetic Surveyors) conference and the second Navigation Conference. Some 16,000 visitors from over 80 countries used the three-day event to find out about the latest products and

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces GeoMedia WebMap 2013

Intergraph announces the upcoming release of GeoMedia WebMap 2013 as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013.  As a fully-scalable server solution for building and deploying high-performance web services and websites, GeoMedia WebMap 2013 enables secure sharing and analysis via real-time enterprise access.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

TerraGo Releases New TerraGo Mobile for Android

TerraGo Technologies has released its new TerraGo Mobile for Android solution, as well as updated versions of its widely deployed TerraGo Publisher for ArcGIS, TerraGo Composer for Adobe Acrobat and TerraGo Toolbar offerings to facilitate advanced geospatial collaboration with anyone, anywhere in online or disconnected environments.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Blue Marble to Feature Global Mapper at ELMF 2012 in Salzburg, Austria

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the European Lidar Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria the week of December 3rd . Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology companies, as well as governmental and university