Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Today’s job market demands experts who can not only use GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology, but who also possess a higher level of understanding of how GIS tools are used to create workplace solutions that can meet a broad range of organizational challenges – also known as the GIS Sixth Sense.
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Today the World Bank and Google announced a collaborative agreement aimed at improving disaster preparedness and development efforts in countries around the world. Under this agreement, the World Bank will act as a conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters,
Monday, January 16th, 2012
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, today unveiled plans for the development of a £659million ‘Airport City’ – the first of its kind in the UK – at Manchester Airport in the North West of England. Read More
Monday, January 16th, 2012
“After some confusion at the very beginning, our integration is moving along very smoothly,” says Risto Räty, Executive Vice President of Tekla. “Our priorities are clear. The first step has involved aligning our business processes with those of Trimble’s. As we are a part of a listed company based in the US, we have shifted to
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Bricsnet FM America, Inc. and MABEC Group, Inc. today formalized a strategic alliance to create a bi-directional data exchange between cloud-based BIM databases and Bricsnet, the corporate real estate/facilities management tool. “Data exchange between Building Information Models and Geospatial Information Systems will greatly increase the ability of Integrated Workplace Management Systems to improve productivity for corporate
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $238 million contract for production of the third and fourth satellites in the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation, known as GPS III. The acquisition of the next two GPS III satellites at one time will allow the Lockheed Martin-led team to maximize efficiencies
Friday, January 13th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Zayed University has purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD for effective GIS learning and research. Founded in 1988 and located in Dubai, UAE, Zayed University is established with the mission of providing the quality educational services and researches. The university comprises the collages of Arts, Sciences, Business, Communication
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Possibility to carry out space imagery of the Extreme North areas in the conditions of insufficient illumination has been confirmed. In late December 2011 ScanEx Research & Development Center conducted satellite imagery of the Oriental Angel injured ship, thrown onto the coast of the Chukot Peninsula (62.5 degrees of north latitude). Elevation indicating level of illumination constituted
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Capping a record year which saw renewed confidence in Alberta’s oil patch, for the first time in provincial history, Alberta has exceeded $3 billion in land sales for a calendar year. Revenues for the final calendar year sale of provincial petroleum and natural gas mineral leases and licenses, also known as land sales, were $145,621,531.32.
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Leica Geosystems is pleased to release an update of Leica GeoMoS Web, the web-based service for visualization and analysis of monitoring data via the Internet. Leica GeoMoS Web v2.1 provides advanced visualization capabilities and can be accessed by using a web browser, PDA, or mobile phone.
