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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces SmartPlant FreeView

Intergraph today released SmartPlant FreeView, a free .VUE viewer that allows users to display and navigate Intergraph 3D models and view associated plant properties. SmartPlant FreeView will open any Intergraph SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine® 3D projects published as a .VUE file. A user then may walk through the plant, ship or offshore model and select

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

GIS Unites Nature and Industry On The Australian Abrolhos

Western Australia’s Department of Fisheries has turned to cutting-edge Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to help manage the Abrolhos Islands: a key source of catch and breeding stock for Western Australia’s $400 million rock lobster industry. The 122 islands that make up the Abrolhos are also one of the Indian Ocean’s most important seabird breeding locations,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

New Energy Saving Solution Launched by Landmark Information Group

This week (19th March) sees the launch of ‘Energy Saver’, the new energy management solution from Landmark Information Group. Energy Saver has been specially designed to help organisations reduce their energy costs through more effective management of existing energy supplies.  The simple, full-service solution can, on average, help companies reduce expenditure on energy by 20%.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Armajaro Trading Limited Selects Greenstone to Enhance Its Global Carbon Management Capability

Global soft commodity trading house and supply chain manager, Armajaro Trading Limited (“ATL”), is taking another important step to reduce its environmental impact and strengthen its commitment to being a responsible business leader. ATL, specialising in the sourcing and delivery of cocoa, coffee and sugar, has selected Greenstone Carbon Management to enable it to measure,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

SuperGeo Announces Collaboration with Geoconnect in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies announced its latest reseller in Australia, where Geoconnect is authorized to serve SuperGIS series software to domestic clients. Geoconnect provides a variety of GIS software and hardware such as GPS, GNNS, rugged computers, and related software to precisely carry out ground surveying and complete spatial data collection. The main clientele is from governments, enterprises,

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Ordnance Survey Launches New Professional Accreditation Programme

Geographic information (GI) experts across the globe are being given an exciting opportunity to gain professional recognition from Ordnance Survey under a new accreditation scheme. The new professional accreditation programme will create a specialist network of GI experts who will work with the national mapping agency in supporting, and providing technical advice to government, commercial and

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Getmapping Hosts Maps for Aberystwyth University

Getmapping is providing a high performance WMS map data feed to the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES) at Aberystwyth University. The data includes OS Mapping, Getmapping high resolution aerial photography, colour infrared imagery, and elevation data. This comprehensive suite of data delivered via the Internet from Getmapping’s Data Centre is being used by

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Leica Geosystems Announces New Mission Planning Software Leica MissionPro

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Solutions Division is pleased to announce today the release of its new mission planning software, Leica MissionPro. The software provides mission planning capability for all airborne sensors including LiDAR, line and frame sensors and is fully integrated into existing Z/I Imaging and Leica Geosystems workflows.

Monday, March 19th, 2012

LizardTech Exhibits at 2012 ASPRS Annual Conference

LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting this week at the 2012 ASPRS Annual Conference in Sacramento, Calif. in booth #227.

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Confidence in Climate Data: Using 3 Million-Year-Old Records

How do we understand what’s happening today by looking back millions of years? Scientists are looking at what climate conditions were like 3.3 to 3 million years ago, during a geologic period known as the Pliocene, and they are confident in the accuracy of their data. The Pliocene is the most recent period of sustained