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Saturday, August 13th, 2011

FullAnalyze Open Source Lidar Software

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

GeoSocials Now in India for Android and iPhone

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 Supports Environmental Initiatives by Growing and Donating Trees

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

Facing Facts on North American Hydro

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 Begins Airborne Data Collection Stage on NSDI Mapping Contract

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 FCMS v3.34: Efficient and Cost-Effective Data Acquisition

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

SPOT Satellite Coverage of Siberian and Far Eastern Areas in Open Access

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.

Friday, August 12th, 2011

INTERGEO 2011 – Candidates for the GeoBusiness Award Present Ideas

For the first time, candidates for the GeoBusiness Award 2011 will present their innovative projects at INTERGEO in Nuremberg. The ideas range from an online platform for forestry information and an iPhone app for species conservation to a portal providing information on cabling for construction projects. The award – which comes with a prize of

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Agrisoft and OpenGeo Partner to Support Indonesian Geospatial Software Users

Agrisoft Citra Buana, PT and OpenGeo producer of the OpenGeo Suite, announced a new collaboration to establish an official OpenGeo Suite reseller in Indonesia. Agrisoft is the latest company to join the rapidly growing OpenGeo global partner network. This new partnership reflects the growing need for local language support for the many Indonesian users of

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Hot-Spot Analysis Identifies Potential WIC Recipients

California Department of Public Health’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) programs are working together to use GIS technology from Esri to identify geographic locations with people who are eligible for but not receiving WIC services.