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Monday, February 6th, 2012

Blue Marble Releases GeoCore 2012 Featuring Improved LiDAR API

Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com ) announces the release of GeoCore 2012, the all-in-one data conversion developer toolkit for geospatial data. The updated version of GeoCore features GeoCalc 6.5, GeoTransform 6.2, and GeoTranslate 5.2. If desired, the latest versions of these software development kits are also available for individual purchase. When combined into GeoCore users can

Monday, February 6th, 2012

SimActive’s Photogrammetry Software Selected by IIC Technologies

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that IIC Technologies has purchased multiple licenses of its Correlator3D™ product.  The transaction was brokered by Groupe SCE India, SimActive’s partner in India.

 “The high throughput and quality expected from Correlator3D™ puts us in a better position to undertake more challenging projects”, said

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Intergraph a Gold Sponsor at India Geospatial Forum 2012

Intergraph proudly announces its gold sponsorship of the India Geospatial Forum 2012, to be held February 6-7 in Gurgaon, India. In conjunction with India Geospatial Forum, Intergraph will also host its India Users’ Conference on Monday, February 6, 2012. The inaugural session features a presentation by Mr. Anil K. Sinha, Vice Chairman, Bihar State Disaster

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Fugro Chance Announces New Leadership

Glynn Rhinehart has been named president of Fugro Chance Inc., which has 400 employees in Lafayette and Houston. Rhinehart has been with Fugro for 17 years, most recently as president of John Chance Land Surveys, Inc. which provides land surveying and aerial LiDAR mapping services to the oil and gas, railroad, and electric transmission industries throughout

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

BNSF To Spend $3.9 Billion On Rail Network

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad plans to invest $3.9 billion in upgrades to its network this year. The railroad said Wednesday that its capital spending plan is $400 million bigger than its 2011 budget of $3.5 billion. Overall, the nation’s major freight railroads, which include BNSF, plan to spend about $13 billion this year, up

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

‘ENVISION’ a New Community Heritage Project was Officially Launched Today

Carntogher Community Association is working in collaboration with the Friends of Ballynahone Bog to deliver the ‘ENVISION’ project. The objective of the project is to collate and present the heritage assets of a rural community for the benefit of the local community and for the advancement of a successful rural economy in south Derry. These

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

New Satellites and Launchers Ensure Galileo Start in 2014

In total, 3 contracts were signed: the contract signed with OHB System AG (DE) comprising 8 satellites for an amount in the order of €250 million. A second contract was signed with Arianespace (FR) for a booking option of up to 3 launches using Ariane 5 (booking fee of €30 million). A third contract was

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

GeoDigital Introduces a Seamless End-to-End Solution for Vegetation Management and Engineering Compliance

GeoDigital, the world leader in LiDAR and imaging technology, demonstrated its combined Grid^Intel Online (GIO) and WorkStudio solution last week during DistribuTECH at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The GIO to WorkStudio process represents the industry’s first complete, end-to-end solution to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) vegetation and engineering

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Mapping New York City’s Energy Hogs

Columbia University yesterday released results from a mapping project that shows, block by block, how much energy buildings consume. Providing the data in a visual format makes it easier to locate buildings that are good candidates for efficiency improvements or potentially on-site energy production. Read More

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

SSTL-OHB System Consortium to Build a Further Eight Galileo FOC Satellites

European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani today announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency.