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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

SuperGIS Android Platform Solutions

SuperGIS Mobile GIS product line has expanded from Windows Mobile to Android operating system so that the mobile solutions can be applied to more platforms in the GIS industry. In terms of Android platform, Mobile Cadastral GIS (available in Taiwan only) enables the staff in Land Office to rapidly get the current position and cadastral

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

SuperGIS Selected by SPZ Enterprise for GIS Projects in Papua New Guinea

SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to announce the latest sales achievement in Papua New Guinea, where SPZ Enterprise selected SuperGIS Desktop 3 and SuperPad 3 to enhance geospatial project services for local government. SPZ Enterprise focuses on the project services in the fields of environment planning, agriculture, land management, reforestation and plantation, serving the clients in Oceania,

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Trimble Introduces Complete Drainage Solution for Agricultural Water Management

Trimble introduced today its new drainage solution for agricultural water management. The Trimble WM-Drain solution is designed to assist farmers or contractors throughout the entire drainage workflow, including the survey, analysis, design, installation and mapping steps.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Trimble Introduces High-Accuracy Assisted Steering System for Agriculture Market

Trimble introduced today its new high-accuracy assisted steering system, available at an affordable price. The Trimble EZ-Pilot™ system turns the steering wheel with its integrated electric motor drive using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) guidance from the CFX-750™ display or the FmX® integrated display. The announcement was made at the Farm Progress Show. The EZ-Pilot system features

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

How National Soil Fertility Surveys Can Boost Food Production

The demand for such surveys has been made on sharp deterioration in soil fertility due to erosion, repeated cropping, and agro practices that deplete nitrogen and micro nutrients. Director, Centre for Community-Based Farming Scheme (COBFAS) University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof  Kolawole Salako, said  detailed soil surveys  would  help in-depth study of the capacity for

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Astrium Collects More than 180 000 km2 Satellite Imagery for Irene Relief Efforts

Astrium GEO-Information Services tasked its satellites to collect data over the USA in anticipation of hurricane Irene’s arrival to the east coast. Over 100,000 km2 of cloud-free SPOT optical imagery and more than 85,000km2 of TerraSAR-X radar data were collected as of Monday, Aug. 29 covering portions of the U.S. east coast from Charleston, SC

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

FME SDK Toolkit Enables More Data to be Used and Shared by Cadcorp Users

Safe Software announced today that Cadcorp has leveraged the FME SDK developer toolkit to build support for Cadcorp products’ formats into Safe Software’s FME. This new support extends the possibilities for Cadcorp users by helping them efficiently use and share more data. It has now been made available, at no additional charge, as part of

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Glasgow – Digital Documentation 2011

Digital Documentation 2011 is a two-day international conference that will bring together leading experts from the new media, research and heritage sectors to present their latest state-of-the-art work. The conference is being organised by the Centre for Digital Documentation, with generous support from Leica Geosystems, the Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art and

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Satellite Monitoring Data Should be Available to All

At a recent press-conference on monitoring and control of natural and human-induced emergency situations was held in “Rossiyskaya gazeta” press-center. The event participants noted that satellite imagery data has been increasingly wider used for emergencies monitoring and response. Each summer Russian forest suffers from fires. On the one hand a forest fire is one of

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

WhiteStar Data Layer Products Now Available at MapMart

MapMart, the most extensive online source of mapping and image data sets, today announced the availability of the WhiteStar Wells, WhiteStar Grid and WhiteStar Culture data layer products as a new addition to the MapMart Energy Data offering. This addition greatly expands upon the amount of data available to the energy and oil & gas