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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

IDV Solutions Announces Partnership with Canadian GIS firm Tamarack Geographic Technologies

IDV Solutions, developer of Visual Fusion data visualization software, today announced a partnership with Tamarack Geographic Technologies, a company based in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that focuses on enterprise geographic information systems (GIS) services and solutions. Visual Fusion is innovative software that unites data from virtually any source in interactive, web-based visualizations. Applications created with

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Manual on GNSS Simulation and Testing Best Practices now available

In an increasingly complex GNSS environment, simulation and testing activities are playing a pivotal role, helping developers to reduce the time to market and ensuring that their GNSS product meets the performance requirements reliably. However, choosing the right GNSS testing tool depends on many aspects and is not an easy task. This is particularly the

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Raven Industries Announces Distributor Relationship With NavtechGPS

Raven Industries Electronic Systems Division announces a new distributor relationship regarding their Raven StarLink Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) products through NavtechGPS. NavtechGPS is a technology driven small business with more than two decades of experience in global positioning systems, geolocation technology and GPS/GNSS technical training. Beginning December 15, 2011 NavtechGPS will receive and process

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Bluesky Captures Old Aerial Photographs with Space Mission Camera

Aerial survey company Bluesky is accelerating the digitisation of its archive of historically important aerial photographs of the UK following the acquisition of a new camera from the same range used by NASA on the Apollo space missions. The high end DSLR Hasselblad camera is being used to photograph original survey films dating back to

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Gatewing Stretchout – UAV Desktop Processing

Gatewing, manufacturer of the revolutionary X100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) for mapping and surveying, introduces Gatewing Stretchout, a breakthrough image processing solution which automatically converts your X100 image data to accurate orthophotos and DSMs. “With Gatewing Stretchout we’ve challenged the accepted way of traditional photogrammetry by introducing highly advanced vision technology that changes the way you process your

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Mentor Graphics and Mecel Announce the First Complete AUTOSAR 4.x Solution

The Mentor Graphics offering of AUTOSAR design tools (available since 2009) is accompanied by the AUTOSAR BSW. The Mecel offerings include Mecel Picea BSW, RTE and configuration tools, also available since 2009. In their collaboration, Mentor Graphics and Mecel implemented different portions of the configuration tool and software stack with jointly ensured interoperability, enabling both parties

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

IIED Conference at Rio+20 Summit

IIED will host a major international event immediately before the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is held in late June 2012. ‘Solutions for a sustainable planet’ will present a set of recommendations for action drawn from 40 years of work on sustainable development. It will showcase the expertise and perspectives of practitioners and researchers

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Cities, Technologies and Planning – CTP 12

‘Share’ term has turned into a key issue of many successful initiatives in recent times. Following the advent of Web 2.0, such positive experiences based on mass collaboration generated “Wikinomics” have become “Socialnomics”, where “Citizens are voluntary sensors”.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Siemens Controls Section of Pan-European Rail Traffic Corridor in Romania

Siemens is to install the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 on the rail link between Chitila and Crivina in Romania. Romanian Railways (CFR: Căile Ferate Române) has placed the order with a consortium made up of Siemens, Thales and Nokia Siemens Networks. The deal is worth around 35 million Euros. Commissioning of the

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

SuperGeo Announces SuperGIS Online Website

SuperGeo announces that SuperGIS Online Website is officially launched, making the GIS data and services accessible through the Internet. SuperGIS Online, the SuperGIS spatial data on-demand web services, utilizes SuperGIS Server to develop a GIS environment. Combining the frequently-used maps and GIS functionality, SuperGIS Online provides spatial data in an innovative way. Users can easily