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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

SuperPad 3 Selected by NAVAIDS in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies shared that NAVAIDS, a GPS and survey company based in Perth, Australia, selected SuperPad 3– the fully-functional mobile GIS software, for the professional project services. The procurement is contributed by Cody Corp., SuperGeo’s distributor in Australia.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

New gvSIG Campus Community

We are pleasured to announce the creation of a new community within the gvSIG project called gvSIG Campus. This community is a new group of community created by the gvSIG Project and its main aim is to be a meeting point between students and tutors from tertiary training institutions (Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees, Doctorate and

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

con terra Released New Version of sdi.suite securityManager

The management of access rights to services and data is increasingly becoming a key requirement, both in service-based spatial data infrastructures as well as company-wide enterprise solutions. con terra GmbH has developed sdi.suite securityManager specifically for these tasks. It limits access to authorized users, filters content according to individual access rights and provides extensive functionality

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Alternative Routes for International Climate Policies

Alternative routes for international climate policies, such as have been proposed in recent years by several parties, may benefit societal support for these policies. The Netherlands could make clever use of these proposals for its own international climate strategy. Read More

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

AeroGRID Adds Imagery of Switzerland

AeroGRID has signed a data distribution  agreement with swisstopo, the Swiss national mapping agency. Under the agreement AeroGRID will provide access to aerial imagery of the whole of Switzerland via its WMS server.  AeroGRID now hosts over 1.5 million square kilometres, of continuous aerial survey coverage on its WMS web server and is working actively

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Lord Foster – 2nd Lecture as Humanitas Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Oxford

Professor the Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM (Brasenose), Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment, will speak as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Architecture at 6pm on Monday 28 November in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. The lecture will consider ‘Heritage and Lessons’.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Blom Transforms Aerial Imaging Services with New Dual Capture Tools

Blom is announcing the transformation of its aerial surveying services at this year’s ELMF 2011 exhibition in Salzburg; the introduction of dual capture technology to simultaneously capture digital photography and topographical LiDAR data.  Read More

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

MS 30 cm Color-ortho-photo Integrated Into all PROGIS Technology

Finally on Nov 24th there will take place the official presentation of Microsoft Bing Maps Aerial Imagery Program for West/Central Europe and embedment into PROGIS technologies, together with an evaluation report on the images done by EC-JRC. Where: Tallinn 23-25 November 2011 at the 17th Conference GEOCAP organized by EC-JRC. Read More

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

LAS 1.4 Specification Approved by ASPRS Board

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce LAS 1.4, a new release of the open file format for lidar data storage and delivery. ASPRS has been maintaining and updating this widely used specification since its inception in 2001.

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Introducing BlomSTREET: a High-resolution Street-level Imagery Service

BlomSTREET is a collection of georeferenced, high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic images that are photographed on street-level. The camera equipment used is mounted on the roof of a specially equipped car taking an image every five meters on average in the collection process. The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with