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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Vertica Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vertica 5.0

Vertica, an HP Company announced availability of Vertica 5.0, the latest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform, which offers greatly improved flexibility and real-time performance for customers’ most demanding business intelligence and analytic workloads.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Nokia Renews Mission for Mobile and Location Based Services

Nokia today announced that Michael Halbherr has been appointed executive vice president to spearhead Nokia’s revised mission in mobile and location-based services.  Effective July 1, 2011, Michael Halbherr will become a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, reporting to CEO Stephen Elop. 

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

TerraGo Releases Modular Software Development Kit

TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, has released the TerraGo SDK (software development kit), a set of software development modules for partners and enterprises to easily and quickly integrate custom TerraGo GeoPDF® and geospatial collaboration applications. Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., the TerraGo distributor in Japan and East Asia and a joint

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

URISA Connect Webinar to Focus on the Importance of Addressing

On June 29, URISA will present “Addressing Webinar Part 1: Return on GIS Investment is Key for Local and State Government” in its Connect series of educational offerings. The one hour webinar will be led by Martha McCart Wells, an experienced county GIS Manager and a national leader in addressing practices. This session will show

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Bluesky Appoints Aerial Mapping Specialist Ian Dee

Aerial surveying company Bluesky has appointed Ian Dee to the position of Sales Executive. With more than ten years experience in the aerial mapping industry, Ian joins the Leicestershire based company from Bluesky’s joint venture partner Astrium, formerly Infoterra. Reporting to the Sales Director, Ian will be responsible for developing sales of Bluesky’s innovative environmental

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

City of Melbourne Improves Community Services with ERDAS APOLLO

The City of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia is using ERDAS APOLLO Essentials – Image Web Server as a foundation for CoMPASS, an intranet mapping application designed to improve city services for citizens. Using ERDAS APOLLO Essentials – Image Web Server, CoMPASS unites disparate geospatial datasets and rapidly serves them to city employees and contractors within

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

3D Laser Mapping Crash Investigations Help Reduce Traffic Congestion

The use of laser scanners to collect vital data for crash investigations is set to drive down the £1bn annual cost of congestion caused by collisions on UK motorways. An announcement by the UK Roads Minister Mike Penning of a £3 million fund for police forces to purchase laser scanning technology ensures Nottingham based 3D

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

ASPRS Feedback Key to Continued USGS Camera Calibration

As a result of considerable discussion at the recent American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has reversed its original decision to discontinue film camera calibration. On April 27, 2011, the USGS Land Remote Sensing Program (LRSP) and the Earth Resources Observation and

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

New atlasFX From Alta4

atlasFX is an innovative map publishing solution for ArcGIS Server. Creating tangible flex based online maps hast just become easier. Just drag & drop your map service using atlasFX as the central configuration tool. Within minutes you can create different online maps for different needs and different audiences. No programming required. Read More

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

New Ice Thickness Map of the Arctic Unveiled

The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed today at the Paris Air and Space Show. This new information is set to change our understanding of the complex relationship between ice and climate. From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º, CryoSat has spent the