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Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Blue Marble Releases Global Energy Mapper v15.1 Featuring New Site Pad Tool Functionality

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Energy Mapper version 15.1. This minor release features a new option to the “Create Flattened Site Pad Plan” dialog box and improved processing of IHS Well (297/298) files. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization, and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Optech Says Farewell to Dr. Doug Houston

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, announces the retirement of Dr. J. Douglas Houston, Vice President Corporate Services. As one of the first employees of the company, Dr. Houston had a personal hand in many of Optechís early advances in lidar technology,

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet Introduces Mentoring Program

URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet, a team of young professional members of URISA, has launched a new mentoring program for GIS professionals. Anyone in the GIS industry who feels they would benefit from a mentor, or would like to volunteer their time to a mentee, is asked to fill out a brief survey to facilitate the matching

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Aussie First Webmap Opens Up SA Community to All

The Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) has launched a public information search tool called MapIQ. MapIQ focuses on connecting the citizen to community based services in their neighbourhood and to the wider community. Alberton resident Tony Yates has been introduced to a local neighbourhood he never knew existed, thanks to this new interactive

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

PCI Geomatics Delivers GXL Satellite Image Processing System to Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC)

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that, through its Colombian reseller, GeoSpatial Engineering, it has delivered a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Satellite and Aerial processing system to the Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC).

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

NASA Set for a Big Year in Earth Science

For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth science missions will be launched into space in the same year, opening new and improved remote eyes to monitor our changing planet.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

ScanEx RDC Starts to Spread COSMO-SkyMed Radar Images in Russia

ScanEx Research & Development Center and the Italian e-GEOS company – the world’s largest Operator of four COSMO-SkyMed radar satellites, signed a reseller agreement, under which ScanEx RDC began to distribute COSMO-SkyMed radar images in Russia. For now on ScanEx RDC is capable of providing data received from all operating commercial ERS radar satellites!

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Lockheed Martin Powers on Second GPS III Satellite in Production

The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) recently turned on power to the bus and network communications equipment payload of the program’s second satellite designated GPS III Space Vehicle 2 (SV-02).

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.