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Friday, March 16th, 2012

3-GIS to exhibit at the Esri Partner Conference

3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit Esri Partner Conference March 24–27, 2012, in Palm Springs, California at the Palm Springs Convention Center this year.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

OGC to Present Keynote “Connecting Islands in the Internet of Things” at COM.Geo 2012

George Percivall , Chief Architect & Executive Director – Interoperability Program, OGC,  will deliver a keynote “Connecting Islands in the Internet of Things” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

INTERGEO – National and International Networking Set to Continue

Whether at local, national or international level, INTERGEO covers all the latest industry trends.  And this year’s fair – the 18th leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management – is set to provide even more impetus thanks to a number of parallel events. “INTERGEO provides an ideal platform for other important meetings

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Blaze Terra Now Supports Multi-band Imagery

Eternix Ltd. today announced that its newly released version of Blaze Terra, the company’s flagship product, supports visualization and processing of multi-band imagery. This new capability allows real-time presentation and manipulation of up to thousands of color bands, in high dynamic range (both 8 and 16 bit of colors per channel). Color bands can further be blended and tuned by

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Dams and Climate Change Threaten the Niger River Wetlands

The combined impacts of new infrastructure schemes and a warmer climate will cause extremely low water levels in the West Sahelian Niger River, impacting the millions downstream and the wider economy. Extremely low water levels in the Niger River are expected to become a regular phenomenon. Wetlands International will present the latest figures based on

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Taiwan Integrated Information of Highway Bus Routes

In recent years, people need traffic information more urgently because of having closer social contact with each other. To meet people’s right to know and enable them to query bus information such as routes, stop information and so forth, “Highway Bus Information System” was announced to public in 2009. However, it could neither manage information

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

SimActive Unveils New Dense DSM Technology

SimActive Inc. is pleased to announce release 4.0 of its Correlator3D product capable of producing dense digital surface models (DSM). Building on the success of its previous DSM module, this new release leaps ahead to enable production of DSMs approaching the resolution of the input imagery with constant sampling across all areas. Read More 

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Airbus, Air France and Several Companies Against the Carbon Tax

Airbus, Air France and British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa, Iberia and Air Berlin have written to several European heads of government. Airbus and six European airlines have joined forces to denounce the carbon tax introduced by the European Union in letters to heads of government French, German, British and Spanish, told AFP a source familiar with the matter.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Blue Marble Releases Desktop 2.4 with Powerful New Seismic Survey Conversion Tool

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop v2.4. This release introduces the Seismic Survey Conversion Tool, a major enhancement to the Point Database Job designed to support native seismic data formats. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Derby City Council Standardises on Spatial Information System Technology from Cadcorp

Derby City Council has embarked on an ambitious plan to make ‘location’ central to all that the council does. The Council’s infrastructure partner, Serco, procured the UK based software developer Cadcorp, to provide its Spatial Information System technology as a new approach to the existing GIS and mapping technologies currently in use.