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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Deutsche Telekom and Gemalto Enable Emergency Call Service in Europe

Deutsche Telekom and Gemalto together announce that BMW automobile is embedding their Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solution in its latest car models to enable emergency call (eCall) services. Deutsche Telekom is the first network operator whose automotive MFF-SIMs solutions are built into an industrial product series, further demonstrating its innovation leadership in the automotive industry.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Japan Passes Quake Relief Budget

Japan’s parliament on Monday passed a $50 billion emergency budget for disaster relief after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a downpayment on what is set to be country’s biggest public works effort in six decades. The overall cost of damage caused by the world’s costliest natural disaster is estimated at $300 billion and the 4

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Septentrio Announces PolaRx4

Septentrio announces PolaRx4, a versatile multi-frequency high performance GNSS receiver providing network operators and scientific users with high-quality tracking and measurement of all available and upcoming GNSS signals. Innovative GNSS signal processing, extensive networking capabilities, robust design and a highly-valued intuitive user interface make this family an excellent choice as future-proof base station solution.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

University of Canterbury Becomes CRCSI Essential Participant

The University of Canterbury has been formally accepted as an Essential Participant in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.  The New Zealand node of the Australian-based CRCSI was established in 2010 and is based in the New Zealand Geospatial Office.  With LINZ as New Zealand’s “anchor” government participant, and a growing number of local

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

MAPPS Applauds Reintroduction of FLAIR Act in U.S. House

A bill to develop a current, accurate Federal cadastre to inventory all Federal real property has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning praise from MAPPS, the national association of private geospatial firms. The Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (“FLAIR”) Act, H.R. 1620, was introduced April 15 by U.S. Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI)

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Microsoft Announces Next Generation UltraCam: UltraCam Eagle

Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division today announced the UltraCam Eagle, a new generation of its award-winning UltraCam digital photogrammetric aerial camera systems. This latest model in the widely adopted line of UltraCam digital aerial sensors builds on the UltraCam legacy of reliable and economical solutions for producing image data of exceptional quality, but bests traditional “large-format” cameras

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Optech Announces New CS-8900 Aerial Digital Camera

Optech Incorporated announces its new medium-format ortho-camera, the CS-8900. This rugged new camera provides high-definition mapping with the clarity that only Optech’s patented Forward Motion Compensation (FMC) can provide. Standard features include : patented field-replaceable shutter system; field-interchangeable metric and athermal lens capability; kinematic camera mounting system; a wide range of aperture and shutter speed options;

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

NOAA Releases Aerial Imagery of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tornado Damage

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey dispatched the NOAA King Air 350CER aircraft, equipped with specialized remote sensing equipment, on a mission to collect aerial photography at 5,000 feet from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham, Ala. These “before and after” shots, taken yesterday afternoon, show damage caused by last week’s tornado near 15th Street and McFarland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Met Department’s Agro Advisory Services Helping Farmers

Agro-Advisory Services (AAS) of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), under the ministry of earth sciences, New Delhi, is helping farmers by equipping them with information about monthly and seasonal variation in weather conditions with high-power computer system (HPCS) which promises to prepare them in advance for minimising the losses in agriculture. As many as two million farmers across the

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Cities Across France – 45% Energy Savings Using Echelon Based Smart Street Lighting Systems

Echelon Corporation announced that its energy control technology for smart, networked street lighting systems is continuing to experience rapid adoption. Similar to its success in China, the market in Europe, and in particular France, is recognizing the advantages of Echelon intelligent distributed control solutions using power line communications (PLC) for reducing energy consumption and maintenance costs