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Friday, December 21st, 2012

Bentley eB Insight Records Management System Complies with DOD Standard

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the immediate availability of eB Insight V8i (SELECTseries 3). This newest version of eB Insight, the foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise system of servers and services, provides records management enhancements that comply with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) 5015.02 Records Management standard. As a result, eB Insight is now listed

Friday, December 21st, 2012

EPA Finalizes Clean Air Standards for Industrial Boilers, Incinerators and Cement Kilns

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized changes to Clean Air Act standards for boilers and certain incinerators that will achieve extensive public health protections by slashing toxic air pollution, including mercury and particle pollution, while at the same addressing feedback provided by industry and labor groups, increasing the rule’s flexibility and dramatically reducing

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Mission Accomplished for Landsat 5

Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history.  By any measure, the Landsat 5 mission has been an extraordinary success, providing unprecedented contributions to the global record of land change. The USGS has brought the

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

RADARSAT-2 Images Support Disaster Relief Efforts of Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines

MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that its space-based imagery is being used to assess the impact of Typhoon Bopha that struck the Mindanao region of the Philippines on December 4, 2012.http://www.asmmag.com/components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/plugins/article/img/readmore.png); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; word-spacing: 0px; “>MDA provided imagery acquired by the RADARSAT-2 satellite

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

GeoEye Releases 2013 Calendar, Featuring 13 Years of Satellite Images

Today GeoEye released its 2013 online calendar, “Evolution of Insight: 1999-2012”, which is now available for viewing and download at www.geoeye.com/2013calendar. The calendar, designed to be used as desktop wallpaper or to be printed, features GeoEye’s top image picks as well as a few honorable mentions (including the Moon!).

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Intergraph Launches Geospatial Portal 2013

Intergraph announces the release of Geospatial Portal 2013 as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013.   Intergraph’s powerful set of server solutions is now harmonized on the front end by one, integrated web client.  Geospatial Portal is a full-blown application that provides both a web client and framework to find, build, exploit, and deliver geospatial web applications

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Emerging Consensus Shows Climate Change Already Having Major Effects on Ecosystems and Species

Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events – such as flowering, laying eggs or migrating – at faster rates than researchers documented just a few years ago, according to a technical report on biodiversity and ecosystems used as scientific input for the 2013 Third National Climate

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Intergraph Worldwide User Group Conferences Attract Record 6,850 Attendees in 2012

User group conferences presented by Intergraph attracted 6,850 Process, Power & Marine users from the power generation, offshore and onshore oil and gas, shipbuilding, metals and mining and pharmaceutical industries in 2012, far surpassing the previous attendance total set in 2011.

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

RapidEye Relocates Headquarters to Berlin

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced today that it has successfully relocated the headquarters of the company to Berlin, Germany.

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Seven Reasons to Pursue a GIS Master’s Degree

As more dollars are earmarked for geographic information systems (GIS) technology in corporate and government landscapes, the demand is greater than ever for highly educated technologists who can apply geospatial concepts and insights to strategic development and decision making.