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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Royal Geographical Society Hidden Journeys – Cairo to Doha

Our newest flight path explores the ancient cultures and landforms that lie between the two expanding cities of Cairo and Doha. Covering the deserts of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the flight path reveals the true value of water in the development of societies as well as exploring how another liquid resource, oil, has changed the structure of the region over the

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Gigabytes of SPOT 5 Data for Search and Selection

Search for detailed SPOT 5 image using catalog is now available at the Kosmosnimki.Ru geoservice. Services for search and order of satellite images from the archive of ScanEx RDC in “one-stop shop” mode are now available via the website Search.kosmosnimki.ru. SPOT 5 satellite is the principal operational tool of the well-proven French SPOT system of

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Accountability in Forestry and Other NRM Sectors

An important aspect of forest governance is accountability, because there is a need for more feed-back mechanisms. Recently, “Improving accountability for NRM sectors at different scales and levels: An exploration” (38 pp.) was published by the Centre for Development Innovation, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre.This report, written by Arend Jan van Bodegom, explores

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

New BlomMETRO – Sharpest Aerial Photography Available

Blom UK is excited to be launching a brand new portfolio of geospatial data, simply called BlomMETRO. Comprising a wealth of information derived from aerial surveys, from false colour infrared imagery and 3D models to building and land use intelligence, BlomMETRO provides the clearest insight into the UK’s towns and cities currently available. MetroHD is

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Flash Based 3D Geo Spatial Video Web Application, iiView

iiView is primarily a Flash based Web Viewer for visualization of 3D Geo spatial Video link with Super Wide Angle Image. By adopting Adobe Flash , our 3D Viewer can be widely used and the application becomes more robust for general use. One can perform Geo Tagging , Measurement in the 3D space and can interact with the real

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

New Simplified Accuracy Check of As-Built Plans for Recently Buried Fibre Optic Lines

Confirming the accuracy of as-built plans for recently buried fiber optic, gas and electric lines has become much simpler and more efficient with the aid of the Ashtech ProMark 500 GNSS receiver and a new EdiPocket® GIS software module. SIEA, a French association that manages energy, communication, electricity and gas networks for the 419 communes

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Esri Named as Microsoft Technology Center Alliance Partner

Microsoft has selected Esri to participate in the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) Alliance Partner program. Esri’s flagship ArcGIS software will be demonstrated in MTC Envisioning Centers worldwide as part of the Strategy Briefing offering. These leading-edge geographic information system (GIS) tools will also be available to Microsoft prospects and customers to use during Proof of Concepts

Monday, June 27th, 2011

PCI Supports Deployment of GXL System on Amazon Cloud for Esri Imagery Processing

PCI Geomatics has successfully deployed a high speed image production system to the Amazon Cloud in support of Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform, to process and make available high resolution Imagery content. PCI’s GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology was designed for automation and speed, leveraging off the shelf CPU/GPU hardware through highly parallelized processing capability, thereby accelerating

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Full version of Tekla BIMsight for Construction Collaboration

No longer a beta version, Tekla BIMsight 1.2 is ready for everyone in the construction industry to download and share over the Internet for free. Tekla launched a new unique software application for building information model-based construction project collaboration in February 2011. With a new full version of the application, contractors, designers, architects, MEP detailers

Monday, June 27th, 2011

TapNav World’s First Vision Based AR Navigation from Lustancia

Lustancia is excited to announce the release of TapNav, the world’s first vision based Augmented Reality GPS Navigation. The application can be downloaded from the apple appstore in US, Germany, France, and Spain.