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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

GTG Selected for New Mexico Contracts

Geographic Technologies Group was selected for multiple software contracts and services including: City of Santa Fe, New Mexico – upgraded to Community Connect AVL for GeoBlade Dispatch, purchased GeoBlade Mobile with Community Connect AVL, purchased GeoBlade Route and GeoBlade Notify, and upgraded to GeoBlade Dispatch. City of Dublin, Ohio – purchased two (2) GeoBlade Crimes seats. GTG is currently working

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

TerraEchos Named First North American Reseller of InfoSphere Streams

TerraEchos Inc., a leading provider of covert intelligence and surveillance sensor solutions, has been named an IBM Advanced Partner in Information Management. This agreement positions TerraEchos as a reseller of the IBM InfoSphere Streams technology, an advanced computing platform designed by IBM for ‘big data-in-motion’ analytics. “This agreement further deepens and expands TerraEchos’ relationship with IBM,”

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Spatial Releases ACIS and 3D InterOp R22

Spatial Corp. announces 3D ACIS Modeler and 3D InterOp R22. The release supports Spatial’s commitment to enhance ACIS and 3D InterOp based on developer and end-user needs. ACIS R22 introduces an innovative approach for uncovering the root cause of modeling failures, enhances point cloud capabilities and performance, and offers new functions for improving modeling robustness.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Bombardier uses modeFRONTIER to Optimize High-speed Trains

In recent years, the German and Swedish based company has turned to modeFRONTIER to drive the design simulations, in order to try to achieve improved greater drag reduction, increased speed with lower traction power and increased cross-wind stability. modeFRONTIER was an ideal choice of tool for this work for a variety of reasons:

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Bombardier Celebrates the Opening of Operations for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link in Johannesburg

First ever rapid rail system for Africa opens the next phase of the system, featuring proven Bombardier Electrostar trains and Bombardier Cityflo 250 train control to bring high quality public transport to the Gauteng Province. Bombardier Transportation today celebrated the opening of the extended first phase of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

VSR Shape Modeling 1.0 Available

The product provides Simple and rapid modeling of control points with many additional options including Curve and surface connection to function G3 (Flow), Handle in the graphics for easy modification of the geometry result, Integrated analysis for evaluation of results in almost all functions, Fast user-controlled generation of surface meshes and Functionality for sketching of

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Catalog Data Solutions Offers BIM Content Solution for Building Product Manufacturers

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) announced the availability of a new Building Information Modeling (BIM) content solution for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry, a new executive to lead the BIM team and a free downloadable Whitepaper, Becoming BIM-ready, available at www.catalogdatasolutions.com.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

INPE Record of 312.7 km ² Deforestation in the Amazon in June

The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) announced on Tuesday (2) the report of its monitoring system Real Time Deforestation of the Amazon (Stop) for the month of June. Were detected 312.7 km ² of forest cutting in the region during the period – an area equivalent to 195 times the Ibirapuera Park. The number is 28.3%

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

TGS Multi-client 3D Survey in the Faroe-Shetland Basin

The new seismic data is being acquired by the PGS Ramform Viking towing 12 X 6,000 m with 75 m separation and utilizes PGS’ GeoStreamer Technology.  Data acquisition will continue through Q3 2011 and the vessel will return in 2012 to complete the survey.   Data processing will be performed by both TGS and PGS.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Enhanced Precision Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks

Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental issue for the coordination of distributed entities and events. Nondeterministic latency, which may decrease the accuracy and precision of time synchronization can occur at any point in the network layers. Specially, random back-off by channel contention leads to a large uncertainty. In order to reduce