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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

PDS Protek AS Makes Strategic Investment in AVEVA Plant

AVEVA announced PDS Protek AS, has made a strategic investment  in AVEVA PDMS which will be used as the company’s preferred engineering design tool for work within the oil & gas industry. Based in Haugesund, Norway, PDS Protek offers in-house engineering and consultancy services to the oil & gas industry including Mechanical, Piping and Structural disciplines. AVEVA PDMS has become a de-facto industry

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

GIS Technology Plays Critical Role to Aid Joplin Tornado Survivors

In disasters, geographic information systems (GIS) technology aids survivors and facilitates city reconstruction. According to Gabriel Schmidbauer, GIS professor at American Sentinel University, GIS technology can transform society through better decision-making using a geographic perspective. It has become an essential tool used for natural disaster research to predict damage as well as assessing post-disaster damage.

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Canada Post Recognized for Transforming Postal Services Using ESRI Technology

Businesses today face increased pressure to optimize return from their direct marketing investment and convert consumer interest into actual purchase.  To help marketers effectively reach their target customers, Canada Post has developed a new “Target to Order” tool.  The location intelligence application leverages ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology, which integrates addressing with demographic data to

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Cadcorp Adds Routing Capability to Free-to-use Ordnance Survey Map Data

PSMA Member Conference, Manchester, 18th October 2011 – Users of Cadcorp SIS web mapping and geographic information systems software will be able to get even more value from their free to use Ordnance Survey MeridianTM 2 mapping data for Great Britain1. Thanks to a new plug-in, SIS users will be able not only to view

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Autodesk and Gehry Technologies to Work Together to Improve the Way Buildings are Designed and Constructed

Autodesk, Inc. and Gehry Technologies announced a strategic business relationship today. The new agreement will help architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals to more fully realize the benefits of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process to meet the demands of today’s competitive building industry.

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Thales to Incorporate Esri Geospatial Technology into Its C4I Solutions

The latest geospatial technology from Esri will be embedded into Comm@nder, the Thales integrated C4I suite, Esri announced today. Integrated in Thales’ communications and information framework, Esri software will improve operational services for defense users and provide complete geospatial solutions for integrated command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systems. The advanced battlespace display and analysis

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

3-GIS to Exhibit at the Esri European User Conference

3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Alabama will be exhibiting at the 2011 Esri European User Conference (EUC) in Madrid Spain.  The conference will be held October 26-28 at the North Convention Centre, IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

GeoEye to Offer Premium Satellite Imagery as a Service via Google Earth Builder

GeoEye, Inc. announced it signed a multi-year enterprise agreement with Google Inc. to license access to Google Earth Builder, Google’s cloud-based map publishing platform. GeoEye is making this investment as part of its strategy to increase online access to its high-resolution color imagery. GeoEye will be using Google Earth Builder to deliver a new set

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

First Anniversary of the Gatewing X100

Last month, with our successful exhibit at Intergeo in Germany, we celebrated the first commercial year of the Gatewing X100. We are very excited to have witnessed how the X100 has grown into an accepted and established mapping tool in the world of surveying in just one year.