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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Fires in South Russia

Thermal spots – probable fire blazes – are detected by satellites in different areas of South and North-Caucasus Federal Districts. Thermal spots are detected using MODIS sensors onboard Terra and Aqua satellites and analyzed based on detailed space images of SPOT 4, received at the Moscow UniScan™ station of ScanEx RDC ИТЦ on March 18-20.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Blue Marble to Exhibit at the 2012 ASPRS Conference in Sacramento

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) conference in Sacramento, CA from March 21st through the 23rd 2012. Visit Booth 513 to learn about the latest updates to Blue Mable Software. Blue Marble’s GIS visualization, geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Balfour Beatty Signs Agreement with Autodesk to Expand Building Information Modeling Capabilities

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, and Autodesk, Inc.(NASDQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, have signed a three year, $12M agreement that will help Balfour Beatty expand its adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM).  The agreement, one of the first of its kind and size in the infrastructure industry,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

3-GIS to Attend SIF Operations Conference

3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit at the SIF Operations Conference March 28-30 at the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front in Pensacola Beach, Florida.  3-GIS will be demonstrating their newly released Field Express App, an Android and iOS mobile application, as well as their web based GIS editor, Network

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces SmartPlant FreeView

Intergraph today released SmartPlant FreeView, a free .VUE viewer that allows users to display and navigate Intergraph 3D models and view associated plant properties. SmartPlant FreeView will open any Intergraph SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine® 3D projects published as a .VUE file. A user then may walk through the plant, ship or offshore model and select

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

GIS Unites Nature and Industry On The Australian Abrolhos

Western Australia’s Department of Fisheries has turned to cutting-edge Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to help manage the Abrolhos Islands: a key source of catch and breeding stock for Western Australia’s $400 million rock lobster industry. The 122 islands that make up the Abrolhos are also one of the Indian Ocean’s most important seabird breeding locations,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

New Energy Saving Solution Launched by Landmark Information Group

This week (19th March) sees the launch of ‘Energy Saver’, the new energy management solution from Landmark Information Group. Energy Saver has been specially designed to help organisations reduce their energy costs through more effective management of existing energy supplies.  The simple, full-service solution can, on average, help companies reduce expenditure on energy by 20%.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Armajaro Trading Limited Selects Greenstone to Enhance Its Global Carbon Management Capability

Global soft commodity trading house and supply chain manager, Armajaro Trading Limited (“ATL”), is taking another important step to reduce its environmental impact and strengthen its commitment to being a responsible business leader. ATL, specialising in the sourcing and delivery of cocoa, coffee and sugar, has selected Greenstone Carbon Management to enable it to measure,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

SuperGeo Announces Collaboration with Geoconnect in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies announced its latest reseller in Australia, where Geoconnect is authorized to serve SuperGIS series software to domestic clients. Geoconnect provides a variety of GIS software and hardware such as GPS, GNNS, rugged computers, and related software to precisely carry out ground surveying and complete spatial data collection. The main clientele is from governments, enterprises,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Ordnance Survey Launches New Professional Accreditation Programme

Geographic information (GI) experts across the globe are being given an exciting opportunity to gain professional recognition from Ordnance Survey under a new accreditation scheme. The new professional accreditation programme will create a specialist network of GI experts who will work with the national mapping agency in supporting, and providing technical advice to government, commercial and