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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Farmers Managing Risks – a Key Issue for Farmers at Agritechnica

Farm specialists will shortly be gathering at Agritechnica 2011 once again to network, view new technology and business ideas, and exchange knowledge. A big part of this knowledge exchange encompasses the management of risks and volatility in the market. Strengthening the cashflow of farmers is an important aspect for the entire agricultural inputs sector, such

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Esri UK Launches LocalView Fusion in the Cloud

Esri UK has launched the UK’s first GIS solution for local authorities, LocalView Fusion, in the cloud. Local authorities can now benefit from engaging citizens with interactive maps and location-driven information, at both reduced cost and complexity.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Kubotek KeyView New Interface at the EuroMold

The CAD viewer Kubotek KeyView presents itself with a completely new user interface at the EuroMold in Frankfurt in hall 8.0, stand K40. Exactly one year ago at the EuroMold 2010, Kubotek KeyView was introduced for the first time. Since then, the CAD viewer has seen a rapid development and is hardly recognizable anymore with its

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Point Cloud and Open Source Debate

A major step forwards or will it damage the industry; should we be supporting Open Source as a way forward for LIDAR technologies?  It could open doors to many – or will it result in the closure of a number of industry players and be too high a price to pay?  Or consider Point Cloud

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Virtalis ships GeoVisionary Version 1.1

VIRTALIS has just shipped Version 1.1 of GeoVisionary. Sales of the pioneering 3D geosciences visualiser have sky rocketed over the last year, with leading geological institutions, mining companies and nuclear scientists world-wide all deploying GeoVisionary to view their data.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

SuperGIS Desktop 3 Selected by Aurecon in South Africa

SuperGeo announced that the branch company of Aurecon Company in South Africa has purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 for their GIS/Data Management Department, which is planning to cooperate with SuperGeo’s South Africa distributor, Spatial Perspective for the purpose of marketing SuperGIS Software jointly in the future.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Herefordshire Takes Getmapping Data

Herefordshire Council has purchased a package of geo-spatial data from Getmapping. The package includes the latest 12.5cm resolution imagery of the whole county (2,400 sq km) plus 10cm resolution and oblique imagery for Hereford itself. This is complemented by Getmapping’s Digital Surface (DSM) and Digital Terrain Models (DTM) of the county, derived from the same

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Satellite Imagery Technology to Build Up National Defense Capacity

Modern technologies, problems and perspectives of using space imagery for national defense and security will be discussed during the 5th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”. On the second conference day – November 30 – a thematic section “Application of satellite data for building up national defense capacity”. The section sponsor

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

INTERGEO 2011: Emerging Technologies the Driving Force Behind New Approaches and Applications

After the three-day INTERGEO event in Nuremberg, one thing was clear: “INTERGEO is a platform for dialogue between technology users from a variety of sectors – dialogue that gives rise to new approaches and applications. The resultant scope of possible new uses is considerable,” stated Olaf Freier, Managing Director of HINTE GmbH and INTERGEO organiser.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Have Floods Changed with Increasing CO2 Levels?

Only one of four large regions of the United States showed a significant relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and the size of floods over the last 100 years. This was in the southwestern region, where floods have become smaller as CO2 has increased.