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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Leica Active Assist: On-line Support in the Field

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the release of Leica Active Assist for Leica Viva GNSS and Leica Viva Total Stations. With Leica Active Assist support engineers can now directly connect to a customer’s field system and see exactly what the customer sees. For difficult support cases, the support engineer guides the customer quickly back

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

GMES Masters Innovation Competition Now Underway

With today’s contract signature, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA); Martin Zeil, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs; and Thorsten Rudolph, CEO of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) officially kicked off the GMES Masters innovation competition. The goal of this competition is to promote more widespread use of Earth observation data from the

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Blom Provides a Greater LiDAR Capacity for UK Forestry

Since November 2010, Blom UK have owned and operated the Optech ALTM 3033 LiDAR previously owned by Cambridge University’s Unit for Landscape Modelling. The instrument previously flown by the Unit was purchased by Blom UK as the university no longer wished to capture its own LiDAR data.  Specifically optimised with full waveform digitisation for data

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Alibre and 3D Systems Deliver Global First – Complete Design and 3D Printer Bundle

Alibre, Inc. announced the availability of the industry-first 3D printing hardware and software bundles. Partnering with 3D Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:TDSC), the global leader and inventor of rapid prototyping and 3D printing solutions, Alibre now offers complete 3D design and 3D printing for creators, DIYers and businesses. To meet the 3D printing needs of a growing

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Dassault Systèmes – Realistic Simulation in SIMULIA’s Abaqus 6.11 Release

With new capabilities and more than 100 customer-requested enhancements, Abaqus 6.11 delivers on SIMULIA’s strategic commitment to provide scalable, high-quality realistic simulation solutions. SIMULIA customers in a wide range of industries—including aerospace, automotive, consumer packaged goods, energy, and life sciences—are using Abaqus to explore the real-world physical behavior of products and materials, in order to

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Zeppelin U. and Tognum AG – Cooperation on European Center for Sustainability Research

Zeppelin University (ZU) and Tognum AG, the propulsion and power generation specialist, will join forces in the future: both have entered a cooperation agreement to establish a European Center for Sustainability Research (EZNaF). The ZU research center is destined to gain national and international recognition. “We regard sustainability as overall responsibility extending beyond the reaches

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Garmin Debuts GDL40 Cellular Marine Weather Receiver

Garmin International Inc. announced the GDL 40 – an affordable marine weather solution that brings on-demand graphical weather and radar data directly to a compatible NMEA 2000 Garmin chartplotter. The GDL 40 is the first and only cellular marine weather receiver on the market today. “For the first time, using the GDL 40, mariners will

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

First Inter-continental Personnel Tracking in GPS-denied

Precision Personnel Tracking System transmits geo-position data halfway around the globe in real time, tracking personnel in Hong Kong and displaying their position to observers in New York City. SEER Technology announced a successful, first ever inter-continental demonstration of personnel tracking in a GPS-denied environment using its NAViSEER Precision Personnel Tracking System. In a meeting with public safety officials in New York,

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Call – Chapters: Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing Book

Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing. We seek submissions for the ISW book, which cover unpublished research on the crossroad of Sensor Web and Geoprocessing. The idea for editing this book came up at the successful ISW workshop (http://purl.net/ifgi/isw2011) held at the AGILE 2011 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Both, extended papers based on abstracts presented

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

MES Says Yes to GeoPDF

Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd. (MES) provides authoritative and expert advice to both the public and private sectors to help understand the impact of major industrial and construction activity on marine environments. To make the sharing of this information as straight forward as possible MES has purchased Publisher for ArcGIS to allow them to create GeoPDF