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Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Intermap Announces $1.8 Million NEXTMap Data Sale

Intermap, a leading provider of location-based information (LBI) solutions created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced that it has received a $1.8 million contract to provide digital elevation data and orthorectified radar imagery from its NEXTMap database. The data will be used by the customer for regional planning

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Partners Join Forces to Launch National Service for Underground Assets in the U.K.

The partners behind Intelligent Trench (an innovative underground mapping solution) are joining forces with PelicanCorp (provider of the beforeUdig service) to launch the most complete and accurate national record-sharing service for underground assets in the United Kingdom. This no-charge service enables authorities, statutory undertakers, and contractors to use the Intelligent Trench portal to access utility

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

3D Laser Mapping Drives South African Road Project

MHP Geomatics has purchased a high speed laser scanner to capture highly accurate 3D measurements as part of a multi-million Rand upgrade project for the South African National Roads Agency. The Riegl VZ-400 supplied by 3D Laser Mapping will be used by MHP, a market leader in professional land management services based in Durban, South

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

New 2D/3D Viewer App for iPad and iPhone

DataCAD GmbH has announced the availability of a new 2D/3D drawing viewer app for iPad and iPhone: TurboViewer Pro from IMSI/Design, the manufacturer of DoubleCAD. “The new TurboViewer Pro adds a host of powerful new viewing features, making TurboViewer Pro the fastest and most capable 2D and 3D viewer on the iOS platform,” Ulrich Oehler, CEO of DataCAD explained. Read more

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Call – Scientific Visualization Challenge

The SciVis Challenge recognizes scientists, engineers, visualization specialists and artists who produce beautiful science visualizations. Winning entries will be published in Science and Science Online, and will be displayed on the NSF website. Read More

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

IGNSS 2011 International Symposium on GPS & GNSS

The International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society Inc (IGNSS) will be holding the 2011 symposium, exhibition and field day at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from the 15th to the 17th of November 2011. Representatives from System Providers GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and QZSS have already confirmed they will be providing keynote presentations and representatives

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

SolidWorks 2012 Delivers Design Solutions to Drive Business

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. unveiled SolidWorks® 2012,  a comprehensive 3D design solution that enables users to work more efficiently and have the data they need to make better design decisions throughout the product development process. Benefits take shape throughout SolidWorks 2012 with a variety of improvements in areas such as assembly and drawing capabilities, built-in

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

SuperGIS Applied to Agriculture Improvement in Sierra Leone

SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to announce that SuperGIS Desktop 3 and SuperPad 3 are selected to improve the agricultural research and palm oil plantation business in Sierra Leone. The sales achievement is contributed by Satscanner Sdn. Bhd., one of SuperGeo Malaysia’s local dealers. The end user, Sierra Leone Agriculture Limited, focuses on the development of palm

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

SuperGIS Products Applied to Non-Urban Land Development Permission

Construction and Planning Agency (CPA), the central government authority responsible for national spatial resource planning, utilizing, and management, dedicates to balance regional development, promote urban regeneration, and manage non-urban land development permission. In order to deal with large quantities of cases each year, a platform which can facilitate the data management and accelerate the query

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Germany and New Zealand Top the 2011 Global Green Economy Index

Results from the 2011 Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) show that expert practitioners in the green economy rank Germany as the top overall national green performer while a new index consisting of 37 datasets scoring country performance places New Zealand on top.