Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Intergraph Corporation reveals its global launch of GeoMedia Smart Client, a solution currently serving more than 25,000 European users that impact 30 million people. GeoMedia Smart Client, formerly “Respublica”, is designed to extend the use of advanced geospatial capabilities throughout multi-disciplinary organizations by delivering advanced geospatial workflows to large numbers of employees through a simple,
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Experts attending the INTERGEO Round Table in Karlsruhe, Germany, made it infinitely clear that the European satellite programme Galileo is essential. The unanimous conclusion was that Europe must be independent of other referencing systems such as America’s GPS and Russia’s GLONASS if it is to safeguard its future as a hub for research and business.
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Registration for the “Remote sensing of wildfires” contest has started. The contest is carried out on GIS-Lab.info platform, the leading Russian Internet-resource, dedicated to practical aspects of remote sensing and to geographical information systems. Contest participants are to develop methods of automated or semi-automated detection of burned areas within 2000-2011 period using remote sensing data. The
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Heavy rainfall occurred across most of Australia between November 2010 and early February 2011 causing extreme flooding across eastern Australia, particularly in Queensland and Victoria. During the flood emergencies, Geoscience Australia provided satellite imagery and derived mapping information to support the emergency response and recovery efforts. These images came from more than twenty different satellites
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
European Forest Institute (EFI) hosts the EU FLEGT Facility, which supports the European Commission, EU Member States and partner countries in the implementation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The EU FLEGT Facility is seeking a FLEGT facilitator to support the implementation of the EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process in Vietnam.
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
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
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
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., 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
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
