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Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Southeast Asia Strategic Infrastructure Forum

We want to hear from you!  Our Top 100 List includes projects from individual Southeast Asian countries as well as the strategic projects that will link ASEAN! But the list is preliminary and needs your input.  What projects do you agree with?  What is missing?  Make sure you don’t miss out on a forum that introduces

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Trimble Releases New Version of its Field Inspector Solution for Utility Asset Maintenance

Trimble announced today the release of its Trimble Field Inspector version 2.1. The new version is compatible with a variety of Trimble handheld computers and is designed for automating utility infrastructure and smart grid asset maintenance and inspection. Comprised of the Trimble Field Inspector software for handhelds and Trimble Field Inspector Desktop software, the solution

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Collaborative Building Information Modeling with Asite cBIM

As part of our continued promise to support the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector in utilizing cloud technology so businesses can share and coordinate information with their partners, customers, and suppliers in a secure environment in the cloud, we are pleased to announce the upcoming beta release of the next generation of Asite cBIM. cBIM

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

PowerACOUSTICS: The First Validated Interior Noise Prediction Solution for Wind Noise

With increasing air, rail and highway traffic, the amount of noise propagated into the community neighborhoods also has escalated. In order to remain customer competitive and compliant with government regulations, today’s manufacturers need to be able to assess their designs’ acoustic impact early in the development process.  Read More

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

LizardTech Announces Fall Webinar Schedule

LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced its fall webinar schedule designed to cover the company’s entire line of geospatial products. Each webinar is free and is aimed at geospatial professionals and decision makers exploring the powerful features in LizardTech’s line of geospatial image products – GeoExpress® software for

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

URISA 2011 Election Results Announced

URISA is pleased to announce the results of its 2011 Board of Directors Election. J. Allison (Al) Butler will become President-Elect of the association and Tripp Corbin, Cindy Post and Teresa Townsend will begin their terms as members of the Board of Directors at the close of GIS-Pro 2011: URISA’s 49th Annual Conference in Indianapolis,

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Wood Buffalo Empowers Employees with a Geographic View of Operations

Spanning over 68,000 square kilometers, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest municipality by area.  To keep track of its numerous dispersed assets and understand how they relate to one another, ESRI Canada today announced that the municipality will deploy a Common Operational Picture (COP) application built on ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. 

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

U.S. Must Commit to Sustainability to Overcome Mounting Economic and Ecological Strains

Entire sets of assumptions, beliefs, and practices will need to be overturned if the United States is to build a sustainable economy in the decades ahead, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need for Innovation and Leadership. The report assesses the country’s environmental record

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

LIDAR: Photon-counting 3D Imaging Lidar Measures Biomass and the Cryosphere

Compared to conventional waveform-digitizing altimeters or laser time-of-flight lidar techniques, photon-counting lidar is a more efficient technique as it requires only one detected photon to make a range measurement rather than hundreds or thousands. Sigma Space Corp. (Lanham, MD) has taken advantage of this ranging sensitivity to develop its single-photon counting lidar system, which can

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Vectorworks 2012 Software is Here!

We are happy to announce the availability of the 2012 version of the award-winning Vectorworks line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.