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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

PCI Introduces Historical Air Photo Processing (HAP) Workflow

PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has introduced the Historical Airphoto Processing Workflow, also known as HAP. The HAP workflow was designed to work with historical airphotos, providing a semi-automated means to align, orthorectify, and mosaic from hundreds to thousands of digitally scanned airphotos.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Safe Software Continues to Add Functionality to FME 2013 with SP1

Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of the FME 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that includes the latest fixes and updates for FME Desktop and FME Server, but also impressive new capabilities. Adding to the story of the latest version of FME, SP1 introduces functionality that

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

First Images Released From Latest Landsat Earth Observation Satellite

NASA and the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched Feb. 11. The natural-color images show the intersection of the United States Great Plains and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Colorado. In the

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

MDA to Provide RADARSAT Information for Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Response Services

MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that its Geospatial business unit will deliver RADARSAT-2 data products and change monitoring services to the Ukraine Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Ministry) to support environmental monitoring and emergency response services in key areas within the Ukraine.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Hand Held 3D Mapping System Used to Explore Aboriginal Caves

ZEB1, the world’s first truly mobile handheld rapid laser mapping system has been used to explore Aboriginal cave markings in South Australia. The strange markings, called finger flutings, were thought to have been left in the Koonalda Cave between about 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Created by hands being dragged along established grooves in the

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

SuperPad 3.1 Supports Comune di Ovodda for Accurate Field Boundary and Prosperity Assessment

Supergeo Technologie announced that SuperPad 3.1 was selected by Comune di Ovodda to complete field data collection for accurate field boundary and prosperity assessment. Today, economic development and governmental policy were the main driving factors of land-using change. In this procurement, Superpad 3.1, the mobile GIS software, is utilized by Comune di Ovodda to frequently

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Android-powered SuperSurv 3.1 Optimizes Feature Editing Function for Accurate Data Collection

Developed by Supergeo, SuperSurv 3.1 is the mobile GIS application for Android devices, which optimizes the feature editing function to assist field surveyors in collecting spatial data accurately.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

The OGC Announces Best Practices Document for Earth Observation Product, Service and Sensor Discovery

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted as an official OGC Best Practice a document titled, “OGC EO Product Collection, Service and Sensor Discovery using the CS-W ebRIM Catalogue.” This OGC Best Practices Document describes the relations that exist between several metadata conceptual models: Earth Observation (EO) Product, EO Product Collections, Sensors and Services. Specification

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

TerraGo Closes $5.5 Million Financing to Support Growth in Location Intelligence Markets

TerraGo, a leading global provider of location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection software solutions, announced today the successful completion of $5.5 million in financing to drive corporate growth and expedite product innovation strategies.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Esri and Motion Provide Geoenriched Mobile Claims Processing

Esri, the world-leading provider of GIS and location analytics software, and Motion Computing, a global provider of mobile computing solutions and rugged tablet technology, have aligned to help insurance agencies improve their claims workflow. By providing access to Esri’s ArcGIS platform on ruggedized tablets, everyone in an insurance agency, from adjusters in the field to