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Monday, June 6th, 2011

ArcSoft Partners With Spatial View to Provide an Auto-Stereoscopic 3D Playback Solution

ArcSoft, Inc. announced that its best-selling multimedia player, ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 5, is now integrated with Spatial View’s innovative auto-stereo 3D solution, the 3DeeScreen, allowing users to view glasses-free 3D on standard laptops. 

Monday, June 6th, 2011

NASA Recognizes ITT Efforts on Advanced Weather Instrument Program

ITT Corporation has been recognized by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with an Outstanding Team of the Year award for its superior efforts and commitment to excellence in building one of the world’s most advanced weather instruments—the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). This satellite weather instrument is part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Esri File Geodatabase API Is Now Available

This API allows developers to work with file geodatabases outside ArcObjects (the library of software components that make up the foundation of ArcGIS). With this API, developers can now create independent applications to view or modify data stored in a file geodatabase. Geodatabases comprise the native structure for ArcGIS to store, manage, and use geospatial

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

PCI Geomatics – Esri Offer More on Earth Observation Imagery

PCI Geomatics has been working closely with Esri to make imagery more accessible to a broader user community. PCI’s GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology is currently being used to support the processing of GeoEye data into ortho-corrected and color balanced image products that will be made available for free through ArcGIS Online. PCI’s high performance, automated

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts

The oracles of modern climate science are the computer models used to forecast climate change. These models, which rely on a myriad of data from many sources, are effective in predicting many climate variables, such as global temperatures. Yet data for some pieces of the climate puzzle have been scarce, including the concentration of dissolved

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Trimble’s 3D Scanning Software First to Provide the E57 E2807 Data Exchange Standard

Trimble introduced today Trimble RealWorks version 7.0, the first commercially available software suite that incorporates the newly approved ASTM International E57 E2807 data exchange standard for 3D imaging systems. Trimble RealWorks version 7.0 allows 3D laser scanning professionals to use their design software of choice, depending on their applications and workflow. Trimble RealWorks is a

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Juniper Systems Mesa Rugged Notepad Secures TerraGo Mobile Certification

Juniper Systems’ Mesa Rugged Notepad is the newest device to be certified by TerraGo Technologies for use with the mobile solution of its widely adopted geospatial collaboration software. TerraGo Mobile enables front line personnel to access, share and easily update geospatial intelligence as well as collaborate peer-to-peer or with the enterprise using TerraGo GeoPDF maps

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

BAE Systems Wins Grand Award in Inaugural PA-MAPPS Competition

BAE Systems (Mt. Laurel, NJ) was selected as the Grand Award winner of the inaugural PA-MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition for their project “PAMAP: The Keystone to Intelligence Decisions”. The accomplishment was recognized at a ceremony during the PaGIS Conference on May 25 in Grantville, PA. Learn More

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

GIS Site License Provides Alaskan Youth with Critical Skills

Though GIS has been taught at a number of schools in Alaska for the past several years, the signing of a statewide education site license with Esri brings the technology to all K–12 students in the state. Students, educators, and administrators in all of Alaska’s primary and secondary schools will have access to Esri’s full

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Avenza Releases MAPublisher 8.5 for Adobe Illustrator

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 8.5 for Adobe Illustrator. This release is now fully compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS5.1, part of the new Creative Suite 5.5 family. Learn