Friday, August 12th, 2011
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 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
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
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 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
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.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
SSTL has today announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia 17th August 2011. Both NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X will be launched into the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, where they will assist with disaster relief and
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
AVEVA announced today its participation at Offshore Europe 2011 where it will introduce two new products to the UK market – AVEVA Engineering and AVEVA Electrical. AVEVA Electrical creates and maintains electrical equipment and cabling data allowing considerable cost savings through a wide range of flexible automated process optimisations. AVEVA Engineering enables multi-discipline engineering teams to
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Automated buildings utilising modern technologies that help lower operating expenses and environmental impacts are gradually becoming the standard. One of them is the Opatov Park I administrative centre, which has become the new headquarters of construction and development company Skanska. Siemens participated in the construction of the complex, whose technologies enable the central operation of
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The Physico-Mathematical Lyceum “Lensky Krai” became the venue of the V (anniversary) aerospace school “The road to space”. Over 150 children and students from 20 different settlements (regions) of the republic studied physics, mathematics, history of cosmonauts and basics of Earth remote sensing from space. The lessons in the aerospace school were supported by ScanEx
