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Thursday, September 6th, 2012

RapidEye Introducing its New RapidEye Mosaics Product at INTERGEO

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of satellites announced today that it will take part in INTERGEO, an event that RapidEye has been involved with for more than five years running. This year, Europe’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management will be held in Hannover from October

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Blue Marble Releases Desktop 2.5

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop v2.5. This release introduces new powerful geodetic tools, new time dependent transformations and file formats. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas , mining,

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

LizardTech to Exhibit at Several Conferences this Fall

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is heading into a busy conference season, exhibiting at six different tradeshows this fall.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed Trevor Taylor to the position of Director, Services for the Americas.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 Now Available

The newest version of desktop GIS mapping software, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 developed by SuperGeo, is available now. Featuring plentiful GIS tools and user-friendly manipulation environment, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a allows GIS experts to display, edit, manage, query, and analyze diverse spatial data effectively.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Emergency Response and Disaster Prevention Project Wins Asia Geospatial Excellence Award

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced to receive the ‘Asian Geospatial Excellence Award – Disaster Management’ by means of ‘Emergency Response and Disaster Prevention System’ which is developed by Environmental Management Consultants Technologies Inc (EMCT). The Web GIS system is utilized by Atomic Energy Council (AEC), Taiwan for

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Esri Canada Fall User Conferences Kick Off on September 18

The Esri Canada User Conferences, which are among the country’s most important annual events for the geospatial community, will start on Tuesday, September 18, in Regina, Saskatchewan. The conferences will be held in eight cities across Canada this fall and will continue through spring 2013. The events will focus on The Power of Where, which

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

British Geological Survey Maps the World with 3D Laser Mapping

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is to use a state of the art laser scanner to map volcanoes, glaciers and other natural phenomena. The RIEGL VZ-1000 purchased from 3D Laser Mapping will be used around the world to collect data that will be used to create photorealistic fly-throughs, 3D height models and highly accurate area

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

3-D Mapping of Isaac Water Levels

A new technology is being deployed by U.S. Geological Survey scientists this weekend to map urban flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac.  Called “terrestrial lidar,” or “T-lidar”, this new capability will enable scientists to collect highly detailed information in select population areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama where the hurricane had the greatest impact.

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

NOAA Selects University of Colorado-Boulder to lead Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

NOAA has selected the University of Colorado-Boulder to continue a federal/academic partnership that extends NOAA’s ability to study climate change, improve weather models, and better predict how solar storms can disrupt communication and navigation technologies.