Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Lockheed Martin announced today that it will begin integration of GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later this month. The start of vehicle integration marks the on-schedule progress of installation and testing of satellite components and subsystems over
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher(R) cartographic software for Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) and Geographic Imager(R) geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop(R), announced the launch of the PDF Maps app, the first and only geospatial PDF reader on Apple iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that introduces a modern approach to discovering the world for
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, has hired well-known software developer Martin Davis. Mr. Davis is best known for his core work on the JTS Topology Suite, he is joining OpenGeo during a period of rapid growth, and will be bringing his substantial expertise to the continued development of the OpenGeo
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Farm specialists will shortly be gathering at Agritechnica 2011 once again to network, view new technology and business ideas, and exchange knowledge. A big part of this knowledge exchange encompasses the management of risks and volatility in the market. Strengthening the cashflow of farmers is an important aspect for the entire agricultural inputs sector, such
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Esri UK has launched the UK’s first GIS solution for local authorities, LocalView Fusion, in the cloud. Local authorities can now benefit from engaging citizens with interactive maps and location-driven information, at both reduced cost and complexity.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
The CAD viewer Kubotek KeyView presents itself with a completely new user interface at the EuroMold in Frankfurt in hall 8.0, stand K40. Exactly one year ago at the EuroMold 2010, Kubotek KeyView was introduced for the first time. Since then, the CAD viewer has seen a rapid development and is hardly recognizable anymore with its
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
A major step forwards or will it damage the industry; should we be supporting Open Source as a way forward for LIDAR technologies? It could open doors to many – or will it result in the closure of a number of industry players and be too high a price to pay? Or consider Point Cloud
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
VIRTALIS has just shipped Version 1.1 of GeoVisionary. Sales of the pioneering 3D geosciences visualiser have sky rocketed over the last year, with leading geological institutions, mining companies and nuclear scientists world-wide all deploying GeoVisionary to view their data.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
SuperGeo announced that the branch company of Aurecon Company in South Africa has purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 for their GIS/Data Management Department, which is planning to cooperate with SuperGeo’s South Africa distributor, Spatial Perspective for the purpose of marketing SuperGIS Software jointly in the future.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Herefordshire Council has purchased a package of geo-spatial data from Getmapping. The package includes the latest 12.5cm resolution imagery of the whole county (2,400 sq km) plus 10cm resolution and oblique imagery for Hereford itself. This is complemented by Getmapping’s Digital Surface (DSM) and Digital Terrain Models (DTM) of the county, derived from the same
