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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Esri Chief Scientist Receives Honors

Esri chief scientist Dawn J. Wright, PhD, has received the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Presidential Achievement Award. Presented at the AAG annual meeting on February 28, 2012, the award recognizes Wright’s outstanding work as a scientist, researcher, author, and advocate for marine conservation and for her contributions to geographic science.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Blue Marble Announces First Global Mapper Training to be Held in Dallas the Week of April 8th

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce its first Global Mapper public training classes during the week of April 8th at the Hilton Dallas/Park Cities in Dallas, TX.  Space is limited for these two-day training courses so interested parties are encouraged to act quickly.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Stewart Walker Elected as ASPRS Vice President

The results of the 2012 election have been tallied by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Tellers Committee and they reported that Stewart Walker, Director – Product Initiatives for the Geospatial eXploitation Products business area of BAE Systems in San Diego, California, won the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2012. 

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Intergraph Launches GeoMedia Smart Client for Integrating GIS Into All Business Processes

Intergraph proudly announces the launch of GeoMedia Smart Client, providing a means for organizations to geospatially accelerate their business workflows with the power of GIS. As an enterprisewide solution, GeoMedia Smart Client obliterates the growing disparity between antiquated GIS products and the needs of today’s geospatial contributors.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

El Paso Water Utilities Implements Trimble Fieldport Mobile Software to Streamline Customer Field Service

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that the El Paso Water Utilities in Texas has successfully implemented Trimble® Fieldport® software to enhance its utility field operations. The Trimble Fieldport software is an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) map-based mobile work management solution for utility field workers.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Bluesky Aerial Photography Flooring Stands Out for London Developer

Aerial photographs from Bluesky are being used to market a stunning range of new apartments in London. The high resolution, full colour images of London have been used with dramatic effect to create an Eastenders’ style floor in the marketing suite of Bellway Homes’ Equinox development in Poplar. Produced by Printed Space on behalf of

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics

During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

New Leica Digicat 600i and 650i for Safe and Fast Location of Underground Services

Leica Geosystems is delighted to announce the latest editions to their cable locator family, the Leica Digicat 600i and 650i series, accompanied with Logicat software, set to revolutionize underground cable location.  Building on the success of previous models, the new Leica Digicat 600i and 650i with their unique data capture and onboard memory function supports

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

SuperGeo Supports to Establish GIS Education Center in Kaohsiung

With the increasing demands and application use of Geographic Information System in the south of Taiwan, SuperGeo Technologies has co-founded the GIS Education Center with the Geography Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU), one of the most reputed and finest Universities in Taiwan. The foundation of GIS Education Center at NKNU aims to collaborate the research work with industry

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Breakthrough in Automatic Analysis of Aerial Images with Computer Stereo Vision

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH presents revolutionary new technology for automatic 3D object reconstruction without help of any 2D map data at CeBIT 2012 At this years CeBIT in Hannover dated 06th to 10th March GTA for the first time presents a prototype of a new tridicon® software version, that enables the detection of 3D objects like