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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Tropic Forest Dataset Available on ArcGIS Online

Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) is using Esri’s ArcGIS Online to make its new carbon stock datasets available to scientists and environmental experts throughout the world. Decision makers will be able to easily access this data and use GIS to study tropical forest carbon-density and change, which impacts the atmosphere and affects climate change.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Intergraph and DigitalGlobe Announce Geospatial Challenge 2012 Winners

Intergraph and DigitalGlobe proudly announce that Priyanka Mehta and Allison Howard are the official winners of the Geospatial Challenge. This contest received more than 115 proposals from individuals with project plans to leverage the power and flexibility of ERDAS IMAGINE® to exploit DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 imagery.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

The OGC Names Dr. Jinsoo You Director of Asian Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. Jinsoo You has become the first Director of Asian Services for the OGC. In this new role, Dr. You will represent the interests of OGC in the region. He will promote awareness and adoption of OGC standards, help OGC members optimize their engagement in the OGC process,

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

New Version of Esri Aeronautical Solution Improves Data Quality for Airports

The Esri Aeronautical Solution—Airports GIS Package version 2 is now available for download from Esri. This updated offering expands the number and types of preconfigured automated validation checks to include those used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during data submission as well as critical and noncritical attributes.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Bluesky Launches New Thermal Mapping Service

Energy inefficient households in the UK are being pinpointed and directly targeted for improvement with a new end to end thermal mapping service from Bluesky. Using the latest survey equipment and advanced georeferencing techniques Bluesky capture raw thermal survey data and process the information all the way through to the production of bespoke, targeted marketing

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

GeoEye Wins Contract from GE Aviation

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading provider of geospatial information and insight, announced it has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from GE Aviation. Under this contract, GeoEye will produce aviation reference data to serve hundreds of the world’s busiest airports. Over the next decade, GeoEye intends to capture all of the world’s International Air

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Blue Marble Releases 13.1 Update to Global Mapper with Network Licensing and Enhanced Geospatial PDF Support

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 13.1.  This update features new network licensing, enhanced geospatial PDF support and much more.  Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

URISA Offers Two Certified Workshops at URISA Headquarters

URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, is offering two URISA Certified Workshops at its Headquarters in Des Plaines, IL.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

SuperGIS Desktop 3 Supports Bayanat in Military Surveying and Mapping

SuperGeo Technologies announced that Bayanat purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 to support spatial data analysis, cartography and efficient map production; consequently, promoting the services of social development, construction, and national defense in UAE. Founded in 1974, Bayanat was born from UAE Armed Forces Military Survey Department (MSD) and is owned by Mubadala Company. The company primarily aims

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 Launched Globally

SuperGeo announces that the latest desktop GIS software—SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 is officially launched worldwide. SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 apply the whole new SuperGIS Engine 3 as the development core and provides more abundant GIS tools so that users in various fields can effectively display, edit, manage, query, analyze spatial data with SuperGIS Desktop 3.1.