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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

NASA Satellite Measurements Imply Texas Wind Farm Impact On Surface Temperature

A Texas region containing four of the world’s largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the turbines. The land surface temperature around the west-central Texas wind farms warmed at a rate of .72 degrees Celsius per decade during the study

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Intergraph Announces ERDAS IMAGINE 11.0.5 Now Available

Intergraph is proud to announce a new minor release of ERDAS IMAGINE, now available to all customers with ERDAS 2011 software. Users can download ERDAS IMAGINE 11.0.5 from the product webpage. This release includes changes from all previous service packs released for ERDAS IMAGINE 2011.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Safe Software and Blue Marble Geographics’ Partnership Introduces New Possibilities in Data Transformation

Safe Software and Blue Marble Geographics announced today that they have teamed up to bring the best of both of their products together in one authoring environment to increase the possibilities of what can be achieved in the use and distribution of spatial data. With the release of the GeoCalc Extension for FME, in addition

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

London 3D Tree Map Helps Assess Green Infrastructure

A digital map of trees created by aerial mapping company Bluesky is helping to support a range of environmental projects in London. Using Bluesky’s tree map The Ecology Consultancy (TEC) and the Green Roof Consultancy (GRC) have undertaken a Green Infrastructure (GI) Audit on behalf of Hammersmith London Business Improvement District (BID) to assess the

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Lockheed Martin Completes Key Integration Milestone on GeoEye’s New Imaging Satellite, GeoEye-2

Lockheed Martin announced today that it has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye’s  next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed-price contract with GeoEye.  Once operational, GeoEye-2 will be the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite, providing highly accurate imagery to

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

1Spatial Wins Top Safe Software Sales Awards

1Spatial is delighted to report that the company received two top sales awards at the recent Safe Software Value Added Reseller (VAR) Event in Vancouver, Canada. 1Spatial Australia was named as a Top Sales VAR at the annual event in Safe’s hometown of Vancouver. The award for Top Sales recognises the highest overall sales performance

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Nokia to Present Keynote “Big Data Computing for Traffic Information by GPS Sensing” at COM.Geo 2012

Dr. Olli-Pekka Tossavainen from Nokia Research Center  will deliver a keynote “Big Data Computing for Traffic Information by GPS Sensing” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

LizardTech to Exhibit at Several Conferences in May

LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is set to have a busy month of May, exhibiting at five different conferences. Showcasing the company’s entire line of geospatial products, LizardTech representatives will be available for product demonstrations and to answer questions.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

SuperGeo Becomes Strategic Partner of Motorola to Provide Android GIS Solutions

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced the local collaboration with Motorola Solutions. SuperGeo will be marketing Motorola ET1, the industrial grade and Android-powered tablet in Taiwan. In this business partnership, Tatung System Technologies Inc., the primarily authorized agent of Enterprise Mobility Solutions in Taiwan, will cooperate with SuperGeo

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Leica Geosystems HDS Innovation Award 2012 Call for Entries

The UK and Ireland is truly leading the field in the application of High Definition SurveyingTM (HDS). With a growing market need and highly talented user community, the industry has seen some innovative and creative approaches to 3D laser scanning.  To celebrate Innovation in HDS we are looking for entries to the prestigious HDS Innovation