Monday, December 3rd, 2012
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced today that its shareholders have approved the proposal to combine GeoEye with DigitalGlobe (the “Merger Proposal”). At a special meeting of GeoEye shareholders held earlier today, 98.3% of the shares voting at the special meeting voted in favor of the Merger Proposal.
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
An experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300km altitude – the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite. The SGR-GEO receiver is collecting data that could help SSTL to develop a receiver to navigate spacecraft in Geostationary orbit (GEO)
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Intergraph announces the upcoming release of GeoMedia WebMap 2013 as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013. As a fully-scalable server solution for building and deploying high-performance web services and websites, GeoMedia WebMap 2013 enables secure sharing and analysis via real-time enterprise access.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
TerraGo Technologies has released its new TerraGo Mobile for Android solution, as well as updated versions of its widely deployed TerraGo Publisher for ArcGIS, TerraGo Composer for Adobe Acrobat and TerraGo Toolbar offerings to facilitate advanced geospatial collaboration with anyone, anywhere in online or disconnected environments.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the European Lidar Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria the week of December 3rd . 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 companies, as well as governmental and university
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
In 2009, the most recent year for which global data are available from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 311 million hectares in the world was equipped for irrigation but only 84 percent of that area was actually being irrigated, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
The Microsoft UltraCam business unit announces the release of UltraMap v3.0, the first fully integrated end-to-end photogrammetric workflow system for UltraCam images. This new version will be available to Microsoft’s customer base on November 27, 2012.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Transport in Europe is responsible for damaging levels of air pollutants and a quarter of EU greenhouse gas emissions. Many of the resulting environmental problems can be addressed by stepping up efforts to meet new EU targets, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, has partnered with the Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI), a Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary, to provide a major Japanese ministry with access to comprehensive high-resolution satellite imagery of all of Japan through GeoEye’s EyeQ™ platform.
