Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The takeover of satellite communicatuions service provider Vizada by aerospace communications company Astrium has now been completed, and Vizada’s activities will now be integrated into EADS Group company Astrium Services. Vizada comprises Vizada Americas, Vizada Networks, Vizada EMEA & Asia Pacific and Marlink. Read More
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Council adopted conclusions on the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 focusing on the concrete measures required to achieve its main targets: protect species and habitats, maintain and restore ecosystems among others. In addition, Environment Ministers also adopted conclusions on the Roadmap to a Resource-Efficient Europe proposal.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Rapiscan Systems — a world leader in security screening and the official supplier of security systems for the London 2012 Olympics — is using Autodes +0.10% software to enable its engineers to collaborate more efficiently in the creation of the company’s innovative and powerful security products. With 14 major locations around the world, Rapiscan’s highly
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
China is set to make five commercial launches for foreign customers next year, a boost to realizing the goal of re-launching itself in the global aerospace industry, a senior industry official said. The five launches are a piggy-back launch of two Luxembourg micro-satellites for sea monitoring in January, launches of two communications satellites for Hong Kong-based
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
CHC today announced the availability of X900 GNSS receiver bringing extremely affordable and reliable GPS+GLONASS real-time centimeter level solution to surveyors without the conventional cost associated with GNSS solutions. The X900 GNSS combines field proven 72 channels GPS+GLONASS technology and state-of-the-art RTK solution for either traditional base + rover configuration and RTK networks thanks to its
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announces that North America and Europe coverage is now available on Esri ArcGIS Online and Data Appliance. Last summer, Esri launched NAVTEQ Map coverage for Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
The Keystone Pipeline Project has been a hotly debated topic in Washington and around the country. While the political and environmental aspects have been well covered, the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology has been minimally discussed. The fact that GIS technology is used to build the 2,000-plus mile, $12 billion pipeline shows there is
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Agriculture has always promoted development and quick introduction of space imagery tools into separate industries and into national economy in general. Over the past years the possibility arises to conduct recurrent (one in several days) space imaging of an area of interest at spatial resolution of up to 20-50 m (ResourceSat-1/AWiFS, DMC 2, Deimos and
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
After several months of preparation, a new Sino-UK Geospatial Engineering Centre has been launched formally in Beijing. It will be run jointly by NASG, China’s National Administration for Survey, Mapping and Geoinformation — through its academic arm the Chinese Academy of Survey and Mapping (CASM) — and The University of Nottingham. The Centre will develop geospatial
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
ESA’s SMOS mission is proving to be extremely versatile. Not only does this pioneering satellite offer crucial data on soil moisture and ocean salinity, but it can also map the thickness of ice floating in the polar seas. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite carries an innovative passive microwave radiometer to capture images of
