Monday, August 15th, 2011
Quick Terrain Modeler v7.1.4 adds the most comprehensive user interface overhaul in our product’s history. The most obvious changes will be in the addition of a Layer Tree, an interactive Mini-Map, and new button icons on the button bar. These changes will make it much easier to interact with all the model, vector, texture, and
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
The world’s coral reefs face a multitude of threats, from rising ocean temperatures to overfishing. A new map aimed at aiding coral conservation has been developed that points out the reefs that are most and least at risk. The map, and the study that led to it, say researchers, will help to conserve some of the
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
As LiDAR data becomes increasingly accessible, a LiDAR-MapWindow Hydrographic Features Extraction tool has been designed to enhance watershed modeling. It is known that LiDAR can provide up to date information to guide decisions on flood insurance, it requires that terrain data be preprocessed into a regularly spaced grid of elevations (such as a DEM) before
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
FullAnalyze is a software for handling, visualizing and processing lidar data (3D point clouds and waveforms). FullAnalyze is a free software contributed by the MATIS laboratory at the IGN (Institut Géographique National: the French National Mapping Agency), and the CEMAGREF at the Maison de la Télédétection. It is released under the terms of the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) license. Read More
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
XLabz Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a leading provider of cutting edge mobile applications officially announced the all India release of their successful GPS based virtual treasure hunt and social networking game GeoSocials. With an initial limited release for the iPhone in the United States of America and subsequent staggered launches across Europe and Asia, GeoSocials has since
Friday, August 12th, 2011
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, donated trees to the City of Gatineau, helping to enhance the local ecosystem and the environment. Technology developed by PCI Geomatics is used around the world to study the effects of climate change, through the analysis of imagery collected by Earth Observation sensors. On
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Hydropower has been a key renewable source of energy in the US, accounting for 61.58% of the total power generated from all renewable sources in 2009. It also dominated the US’ total installed capacity for renewable power with a share of nearly 66.32% in the same year. Meanwhile hydro’s cumulative installed capacity had reached 101,355MW
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Intermap Technologies today announced that its airborne data collection activities have commenced on a previously announced contract (December 29, 2010) to provide 3D digital elevation models and orthorectified radar images as part of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) program. This $12.4 million contract is intended to update the customer’s current 1:50,000-scale base map and will
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Leica Geosystems announces version 3.34 of its powerful Leica Flight & Sensor Control Management System (FCMS). New productive features such as automatic generation of bitmaps from DTM data have been added to make Leica FCMS v3.34 the most productive tool for cost-effective flights and data acquisition. Read More
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Basic satellite coverage of “Kosmosnimki.Ru” geoportal now includes SPOT mosaic of the territory of over 5 million square kilometers, covering 14 federal constituents in Siberia and Far East of Russia, as well as South-Western areas of Krasnoyarsk Territory. In early August satellite coverage of SPOT with resolution of 10 m was posted in the Kosmosnimki.Ru web resource.
