Saturday, October 19th, 2013
Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Spicer Group Inc., based in Saginaw, Mich., is the first professional engineering, land surveying and planning services firm in North America to purchase the Pegasus:One mobile mapping solution. One of the largest surveying firms in Michigan, Spicer Group handles contracts for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) as well
Friday, October 18th, 2013
CPE Technology, a Brazilian geotechnology company, has purchased the regions first ZEB1 mobile mapping system. The world’s first truly mobile, hand held rapid laser mapping system the ZEB1 system will be presented to potential users active in the fields of underground mining, construction and government agencies with responsibility for national heritage.
Friday, October 18th, 2013
SmartNet North America, the high-precision, high-availability network RTK correction service, has launched a new integrated cellular data service package called SmartConnect. Designed to simplify Internet connectivity with GNSS equipment, SmartConnect is a bundled service that allows SmartNet customers to access the SmartNet RTK correction services as well as other related online services requiring the
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Statement from MAPPS Executive Director John Palatiello on the Gesopatial and Engineering International Conference: I regret to inform you that due to the extended government shutdown, we have postponed the Geospatial & Engineering International Conference until 2014. Even with the government opening this week, the shutdown has had an adverse affect on our ability to
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is taking its products on the road. LizardTech will present at a “MrSID User Group Meeting” on Tuesday, October 22 at the Commons Learning Center in Austin, TX to show the geospatial community how compressing, manipulating and distributing aerial and satellite imagery with
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Astrium, world’s second-ranking space company, has released the first WorldDEM™ sample data sets for evaluation purposes, enabling potential customers to begin testing data for varied applications including line-of-sight analysis, 3D visualisation or orthorectfication of satellite imagery.
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced that it has finalized a lease for a new headquarters location in Westminster, Colo.
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Google Media Tools combines a number of data visualization capabilities, including Google Maps, with advanced search and social media outreach of Google+ to help journalists enhance their newsgathering and storytelling.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of a fully managed .NET version of the GeoCalc 6.6 software development kit (SDK). Now .NET developers can get all of the accuracy and power of the GeoCalc toolkit in a fully managed .NET control. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Around 90 % of city dwellers in the European Union (EU) are exposed to one of the most damaging air pollutants at levels deemed harmful to health by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This result comes from the latest assessment of air quality in Europe, published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
