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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Bentley Systems Receives 2011 Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it has received the 2011 Oracle® Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership. The award recognizes Bentley’s long-term, broad support of Oracle Spatial in its extensive portfolio of geospatial desktop and server products, including Bentley Map, Bentley Electric, Bentley

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

CrossCountry App for iPhone

Have you driven 5 hours to an event, only to be eliminated for missing a jump? Have your dreams of winning evaporated with costly time penalties? Effortless and intuitive to use, fast and attractive, CrossCountry leaves you free to concentrate on your preparation. Creates a cross country course map with GPS Automatically calculates your minute markers Add

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Elster to Call for Smart Grid ‘Security by Design’ for Europe

Addressing delegates at Metering and Billing CRM Europe in the Netherlands next week, Frank Hyldmar, Executive Vice President, Elster Electricity International, will explore the crucial challenge of security in the Smart Grid. Ahead of the conference, Hyldmar, who is chairing the ‘Ensuring security and privacy’ session stated: “We encourage all utilities and industry players to put security at

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

On-Ramp Wireless Partners With Ecologic Analytics

On-Ramp Wireless today announced its partnership with leading meter data management system (MDMS) solution provider Ecologic Analytics. With its simple star topology infrastructure, On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) wireless infrastructure system works with Ecologic’s MDMS solution to provide a pre-validated, pre-integrated communications solution for multi-service utilities. Yesterday, On-Ramp announced its meter communication modules for the Smart Meter

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

BVC Survey_ Your OGC Needs You!

In the coming weeks we will be announcing the business value survey from the OGC. It would be extremely helpful if your organization (OGC member or not) could help us promote and drive responses to the survey. This means any and all marketing, communications or outreach staff highlighting the availability of the OGC survey internally and

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Zenith 10 & Zenith 20: The complete GNSS RTK Solution from GeoMax

A new member of GeoMax’s complete and fully integrated GNSS RTK positioning system is the Zenith10 & Zenith 20 series with integrated GPRS/GSM and UHF radio. The system gives the user full flexibility and offers Compass & Galileo readiness. The Zenith10 & Zenith 20 series comprises of only two components: a GNSS antenna and a handheld computer. They can be

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Towards a Global Soil Partnership

Global soil resources are limited. Soils are the basis for food security. Soils are being degraded and are less productive ‐ urgent need protection and sustainable management. E.g. Worldwide 24 billion tons of fertile soil disappears each year (UNCCD, 2011). Just in Somalia, an average of 100 tons/ha of topsoil per year is lost (SWALIM, 2009). Read More

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Critical Design Review for WorldView-3

DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. jointly announced today they successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for DigitalGlobe’s next generation remote-sensing satellite, WorldView-3. The successful CDR was completed in late August and keeps WorldView-3 on schedule for a planned launch in the middle of

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Paris Selects ArcGIS as Its Geospatial Technology Platform

The City of Paris signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri France, making ArcGIS software available throughout the city. The agreement enables the city to build an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS) to increase efficiency and improve services.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

SSTL Redefines the Cost of Radar Imaging With NovaSAR-S

Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has today announced completion of the development phase of its new low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system.  Called NovaSAR-S, the system offers customers coverage of any spot on Earth in all conditions – seeing through cloud cover across both day and night.