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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Intergraph® Announces OEM Agreement with MapText, Inc.

Intergraph announces it has signed an OEM agreement with MapText, Inc., the leading label-placement solutions provider for local, state and national government mapping agencies worldwide. Through the agreement, MapText’s GeoLabel Pro product will be fully embedded into the Intergraph GeoMedia Desktop product line, enhancing the overall labeling capabilities within the product suite. As such, users

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Intergraph Highlights Advanced Point Cloud Capabilities at Hexagon 2012

At the Hexagon 2012 conference, Intergraph is demonstrating a new technology that enables you to fully leverage the wealth of information in point cloud data. The centerpiece of the new functionality is the augmented viewing capability embedded in ERDAS IMAGINE, which allows users to simultaneously view LiDAR spatially linked in 2D, 3D and as a

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Geostellar Raises Funds to Help Turn Energy Consumers into Producers

Geostellar, providers of advanced geomatic technology to accurately determine the value of solar energy generation for property owners, today announced an investment from strategic, financial and economic development sources including NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), the State of Maryland and Flash Forward Ventures. The funding will accelerate the delivery of Geostellar’s

Monday, June 4th, 2012

Russia Significantly Expands Use of DigitalGlobe Imagery to Help Protect Country’s Vast Forests

DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced it will significantly expand delivery of high-resolution imagery to Roslesinforg, a division of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia.

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

INTERGEO Conference Set to Welcome Distinguished National and International Speakers

This year’s conference will once again feature distinguished national and international speakers. Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Steven W. Berglund, President and CEO of Trimble, and CheeHai Teo, President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), will all hold keynote speeches. From 9 to 11 October 2012, INTERGEO

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Intergraph Showcases GIS for Everyone at Hexagon 2012

Intergraph’s GeoMedia Smart Client takes a starring role at Hexagon 2012, with a number of new hands-on training classes being introduced, as well as break-out sessions and a variety of new vertical market workflow demonstrations. GeoMedia Smart Client enables organizations to geospatially accelerate their business workflows, and eliminates the growing disparity between antiquated GIS products

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Intergraph Appoints T-Kartor as Channel Partner in Sweden

Intergraph announces the appointment of T-Kartor as a channel partner in Sweden. As a long-term distributor of ERDAS products, T-Kartor’s role is being expanded in the region to provide sales and customer support for the full Intergraph Geospatial portfolio. “Since Intergraph became a part of Hexagon, we have been focusing on integrating ERDAS products into the

Friday, June 1st, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard. This document specifies an extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

New Partners and Prizes in the GMES Masters 2012

The GMES Masters competition was inaugurated in 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and T-Systems with the support of the European Commission. For this year’s iteration, two additional industry leaders – European Space Imaging GmbH and Astrium Services – have joined the competition

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Esri Canada Recognizes Manitoba Hydro for Seamless, Province-Wide Property Parcel Fabric

Utilities need an accurate and consistent basemap of property data to support numerous processes including network planning, design, construction, operation and facility retirement. While federal, provincial and municipal governments provide parcel information, these datasets have varying schemas, degrees of accuracy and data lineage. To address this challenge, Manitoba Hydro, the province’s major energy utility, created