Friday, October 21st, 2011
Scientists with NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne research campaign began the mission’s third year of surveys this week over the changing ice of Antarctica. Researchers are flying a suite of scientific instruments on two planes from a base of operations in Punta Arenas, Chile: a DC-8 operated by NASA and a Gulfstream V (G-V) operated by
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
CartoPac International, Inc., a global provider of leading GIS enterprise solutions for field asset management, today announced Jumpstart, a rapid deployment platform combining tools, expertise, and methodologies, to accelerate implementation of a mobile enterprise GIS platform for pipeline and related assets. Designed to help Oil & Gas companies innovate and reinvent quickly, Jumpstart sets a new
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
VERIPOS has extended its Asia Pacific operations with the opening of a branch office in Australia, in April. The facility is based in Perth and will provide sales and support for both Australia and New Zealand. Bernard He has been appointed as Veripos Country Manager – Australia. With the establishment of a workshop and dedicated training
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
In an update to the handset’s published specifications, Apple added GLONASS capability to Assisted GPS and cellular location finding, reports Russian website iPhones.ru. The site noted that the iPhone 4S may be using a new Broadcom chipset to communicate with the satellite location system. Although Russia’s GLONASS is not as accurate as its U.S. counterpart,
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
AVEVA announced PDS Protek AS, has made a strategic investment in AVEVA PDMS which will be used as the company’s preferred engineering design tool for work within the oil & gas industry. Based in Haugesund, Norway, PDS Protek offers in-house engineering and consultancy services to the oil & gas industry including Mechanical, Piping and Structural disciplines. AVEVA PDMS has become a de-facto industry
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
In disasters, geographic information systems (GIS) technology aids survivors and facilitates city reconstruction. According to Gabriel Schmidbauer, GIS professor at American Sentinel University, GIS technology can transform society through better decision-making using a geographic perspective. It has become an essential tool used for natural disaster research to predict damage as well as assessing post-disaster damage.
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Businesses today face increased pressure to optimize return from their direct marketing investment and convert consumer interest into actual purchase. To help marketers effectively reach their target customers, Canada Post has developed a new “Target to Order” tool. The location intelligence application leverages ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology, which integrates addressing with demographic data to
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
PSMA Member Conference, Manchester, 18th October 2011 – Users of Cadcorp SIS web mapping and geographic information systems software will be able to get even more value from their free to use Ordnance Survey MeridianTM 2 mapping data for Great Britain1. Thanks to a new plug-in, SIS users will be able not only to view
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. and Gehry Technologies announced a strategic business relationship today. The new agreement will help architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals to more fully realize the benefits of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process to meet the demands of today’s competitive building industry.
