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Monday, July 30th, 2012

Leica GeoMoS 5.3 – Monitoring Process is Now Integrated as a Secure Windows Service

Leica GeoMoS, the market-leading software for monitoring applications, has been updated to version 5.3. In order to enable a permanent monitoring process, the latest version provides the best possible integration into a modern and high secure IT infrastructure as a Windows Service. For large monitoring installations using GNSS sensors and multiple total stations with hundreds

Friday, July 27th, 2012

IGARSS Wraps Up

The largest ever conference on geoscience and remote sensing comes to an end after a week of exchanging ideas, identifying research trends and discussing the latest developments in observation techniques. This year’s International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium – IGARSS 2012 – was held in Munich, Germany. Jointly organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

British Columbia Receives Special Achievement Award for Exceptional Application of Geospatial Technology

Esri Canada congratulates the Province of British Columbia for receiving the Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award yesterday at the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). This award acknowledges the Province’s vision, leadership and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The Province has created and maintains a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

exactView-1 Satellite Operational in Orbit

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite, which was built by the Company under contract to prime contractor COM DEV Canada for exactEarth.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

SAG Awards at Esri UC Honor Outstanding Applications of Geospatial Technology

Esri recognized more than 170 organizations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards ceremony yesterday at the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

USGS Helps Debut New Technology to Improve Access and Use of Earth Science Data

Researchers investigating global issues now have an easy method for finding and using earth science data through a new technology developed by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE. Understanding broad and complex environmental issues, for example climate change, increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive datasets. But the amount of collected

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

PCI Geomatics Releases Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 3

PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geoimaging software and systems, announced today that it has released Geomatica 2012, Service Pack 3 (SP3). This release contains maintenance fixes and includes all updates delivered since Geomatica 2012 Service Pack 2. The update is available for both Windows and Linux-based operating systems.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Esri Joins World Ocean Council

Esri has joined the ocean business alliance World Ocean Council (WOC) and will support its international initiatives for sustainable development and conservation of the ocean. Esri chief scientist Dawn Wright will share her geospatial expertise with WOC’s Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) and Ocean Science working groups. Esri is the world leader in GIS.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Esri and DigitalGlobe Sign Multi-Year Agreement

DigitalGlobe today announced that Esri has licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap imagery layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California. The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri’s existing imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaborative content management system. Later

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Optech Wins JALBTCX 2012 Awards

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Optech has been presented with two awards from the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX): the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award, and the 532 Award. The Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement