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Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Optech and Cardinal Systems Announce Joint Initiative

Optech Incorporated and Cardinal Systems are pleased to announce a joint development initiative covering Cardinal's VR suite of photogrammetric and lidar processing products. Under the terms of the agreement Optech and Cardinal Systems agree to jointly enhance existing software and develop new software solutions for Optech’s industry-leading line of imaging products, including Optech’s new line

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Turkish Agriculture Ministry – New Crop Protection Regulation

A new regulation will seek to monitor whether licensed crop protection products are indeed fulfilling the standards demanded by authorities, Turkey’s Agriculture Ministry has said. The crop protection products, commonly known as pesticides, will be monitored in the production, export, import and application phases, according to the Crop Protection Products Control Regulation that was printed in

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Michigan DOT Chooses Bentley’s Power GEOPAK for Statewide Survey Software

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has chosen Bentley’s Power GEOPAK all-in-one civil engineering design software to replace CAiCE as its standard statewide survey software. MDOT made this decision after Bentley’s successful benchmark in mid-April 2011 against Autodesk’s AutoCAD Civil 3D application. Power GEOPAK provides civil transportation professionals with

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

GeoEye, Inc. Declares Dividend of Preferred Stock Purchase Rights

GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan. Under the plan, one preferred stock purchase right will be distributed for each share of common stock held by stockholders of record on June 22, 2011. The rights plan has a one year

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Organizations Honored with Highest Customer Distinction at Hexagon 2011

Intergraph SG&I presented the 2011 Icon Award, the company’s highest customer honor, to recognize one winner and three nominees for their visionary use of Intergraph’s enterprise engineering and geospatial software. The Icon Award winner and nominees were announced today during keynote presentations at Hexagon 2011 in Orlando, Florida, USA, the first international users’ conference that

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Esri Business Summit Features Keynote from Starbucks

Starbucks Coffee Company’s Patrick O’Hagan, global marketing planning manager for the world’s largest retail coffee chain, will keynote the Esri Business Summit to be held July 10–11, 2011, in San Diego, California. The summit draws business executives from all over the world to talk about how using location-based analysis will improve an organization’s overall performance,

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

High-detail Ocean Floor Maps Introduced

Armchair explorers can “dive” in and view the ocean floor in far greater detail thanks to new topography released through Google Earth, U.S. researchers say. Developed by oceanographers at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from scientific data collected on research cruises, the new synthesis of seafloor topography improves resolution in covered areas from the former 1-kilometer

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Crop Condition Assessment Program

Growing conditions for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada range from lower to much lower than normal this spring as a result of cool, wet weather, according to early data from the Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP) for the 2011 growing season. Corn and soybean planting is delayed in some regions, with the possibility that producers

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

ELMF 2011 Launch Call for Papers

The ELMF is the premier event in Europe focused on applying the technology of LIDAR and laser scanning to deliver outside mapping and imaging solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner across a variety of markets.  The second ELMF is taking place in Salzburg, Austria from 29 – 30 November 2011. Last year’s inaugural event

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

COWI Seminar on Waster Prevention

On 15 June, a seminar on waste prevention will be held at COWI’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The seminar is aimed at actors in the construction and building sector who work with waste management. Policy makers at the local and national levels as well as scientists in research organisations are also expected to attend the seminar, which