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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

Exprodat Builds on Petroleum ArcGIS Training Success in Houston

Exprodat, the UK-based provider of petroleum GIS services, software and training, is running another series of their popular ArcGIS-based petroleum training courses in Houston, Texas.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

Win a Year’s Support for a Geolocation Start-up with the Ordnance Survey Developer Challenge 2014

Ordnance Survey is challenging developers and entrepreneurs to submit their business ideas, which use location information, to be in with a chance of winning a complete new business start-up package, including desk space at one of the country’s innovative TechHub centres and a full mentorship programme for twelve months.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

TerraGo Launches Partner Program, TerraGo Advantage

TerraGo, is pleased to announce the launch of TerraGo Advantage, the TerraGo partner program. TerraGo Advantage provides distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators and other technology leaders the opportunity to increase their value proposition, competitive advantage and revenue opportunities by including TerraGo products in their solution offerings.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

1Spatial Awarded £2.08m Contract Extension by Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

1Spatial plc, the spatial big data company which manages the world’s largest spatial data, is pleased to announce a £2.08m contract extension with Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OSGB). 1Spatial’s technology enables Ordnance Survey to enhance its end to end capability to deliver digital products to its customers and partners, making it a more efficient

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Portugal Preps for Copernicus

With the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme’s first satellite nearing launch, Portugal explores how best to exploit this initiative’s critical information. In order to stimulate the use of satellite-derived data within public administration, Portugal has created the Working Group for Earth Observation (GTOT). The group’s main focus is on information from Copernicus, including data from the

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Intermap Technologies Announces US$5.0 Million Convertible Debt Financing

Intermap Technologies, a leading provider of geospatial solutions on-demand created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced it has entered into an agreement to issue a non-brokered US5.0 million convertible debt financing (the “Debt Financing”).

Friday, January 24th, 2014

2014 URISA Vanguard Cabinet Members Announced

URISA is pleased to announce the 2014 members of its Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative (which debuted in 2011) to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community.  The VC is an advisory board who

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Bluesky Purchases UltraCam Eagle with UltraNav

  Bluesky International Ltd. has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Eagle digital aerial photogrammetric camera system with a 100mm lens, an UltraNav GNSS-Inertial Direct Georeferencing + Flight Management System and a gyro-stabilized UltraMount. The UltraCam Eagle has an ultra-large footprint that results in enhanced data collection capabilities.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

NASA Premieres Unique Film on Water on Spherical Screen

NASA has created a unique spherical film showing water’s journey and extensive impact as it cycles through Earth. “Water Falls,” created in partnership with the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, will premiere this month on spherical movie screens at special events hosted by The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, N.Y., and The Space Foundation in Colorado

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

TerraGo Unveils New Version of Geospatial Collaboration Software

TerraGo, a leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce the v.6.0.4 release of its geospatial collaboration software, including TerraGo Publisher, TerraGo Composer and TerraGo Toolbar, with a webinar on January 30th to demonstrate key capabilities.