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Thursday, August 29th, 2013

Intergraph Mobile Alert App Enables Citizen Crowdsourcing

Intergraph has released Intergraph Mobile Alert, a new mobile application for crowdsourcing incident information. Intergraph Mobile Alert simplifies reporting for citizens. Cities benefit by enlisting the masses to help define and pinpoint issues, such as road or utility line damage.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

NASA ‘Eyes’ Dissect California’s Massive Rim Fire

The Rim Fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park in California continues to grow and move its way up in the record books. As of Aug. 27, CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) reports that the fire, which started Aug. 17, had consumed nearly 180,000 acres, making it the seventh largest

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Announcing the ArcGIS Online Specialty for Esri Partners

ArcGIS users can now easily identify Esri partners with skills and experience in delivering ArcGIS Online apps and services thanks to the new ArcGIS Online Specialty. The ArcGIS Online Specialty designates partners in the Esri Partner Network that have developed a proven set of value-added services and solutions that help users implement and optimize ArcGIS

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Blue Marble Releases 64 Bit Version of the Geographic Calculator

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of a new 64 bit version of the Geographic Calculator with the release of Service Pack 1. With the Geographic Calculator v2013, SP1 users have the option to work with Geographic Calculator on a 64 bit machine allowing for even faster data processing. Blue Marble’s geospatial

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Today in History – August 28, 1963: Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech… and the founding of URISA

Fifty years ago today in Washington, DC, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” Speech. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. On

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Trimble Launches Connected Farm Dashboard

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the Connected Farm dashboard, which provides one centralized location for farmers to view key information impacting their operations. With this information, farmers will be able to make better daily decisions based on the latest data. The Connected Farm dashboard is customizable and accessible via Internet-enabled devices such as desktop and

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Trimble to Enter Irrigation Market with the Acquisition of IQ Irrigation Assets

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of privately-held IQ Irrigation of Christchurch, New Zealand. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of August 2013.

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Trimble Acquires Assets of RainWave and Hydro-Engineering to Extend its Connected Farm Solution

Trimble announced today that it has acquired the assets of privately-held RainWave, LLC and Hydro-Engineering Solutions, LLC of Auburn, Ala. The acquisitions will help to extend the monitoring and reporting capabilities of Trimble’s Connected Farm™ solution and strengthen its water management expertise. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

New Report Details the Coastal Change from Hurricane Sandy

Beaches and dunes on Fire Island, New York, lost more than half of their pre-storm volume during Hurricane Sandy, leaving the area more vulnerable to future storms. While the damage and destruction on Fire Island was immediately evident after the storm, a new U.S. Geological Survey study released today is the first to quantify the

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The DigitalGlobe Image Archive Reaches 4 Billion KM2 of Imagery

DigitalGlobe recently reached a major milestone – the company’s archive surpassed 4 billion square kilometers of high-resolution satellite imagery. As the leader in commercial satellite imagery content, DigitalGlobe now has an archive containing enough imagery to cover the globe’s landmass 27 times over.