Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Nokia and Microsoft today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both companies. Completed ahead of schedule, the definitive agreement is consistent with the joint announcement made on February 11.
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Microsoft will have a workshop “Windows Phone 7” at COM.Geo 2011 conference which will be held on May 23-25, Washington, DC. The workshop is for who are interested to write an application or a game and make it available on Windows Phone 7 devices through Microsoft’s Marketplace. At the workshop, Dr. Zhiming Xue and Joel Reyes
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Getmapping subsidiary Geosense, in partnership with Precision Surveys has just completed a successful aerial and ground based acquisition program in the Western Cape focused primarily on the wine producing regions. The program undertaken during February and March of this year captured over 130,000 hectares of vineyards including farms in CapeTown, Hermanus, Grabouw, Stellenbosch, Franschoek and
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is hosting a User Group Meeting at the upcoming ASPRS Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. It will take place on May 2nd, 8:00 a.m. – Noon in room 202D in the Frontier Airlines Center. The User Group
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
GRW Inc., a full-service geospatial engineering, architecture and planning firm, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamLp digital aerial camera system. The UltraCamLp will support GRW in serving government and commercial customers around the US, for applications such as transportation mapping, utility mapping, airport planning, and digital orthophoto creation. Learn
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
It is with great pleasure to acknowledge the continuation of the Carl Pulfrich Award by Hexagon Geosystems, the new owner of Intergraph and Z/I Imaging. Please find enclosed the application criterion for the Carl Pulfrich Award 2011. As you know, Dr. Carl Pulfrich founded 1909 The Photogrammetric Week Series as a “Vacation Course in Stereo-Photogrammetry”. I am
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Astrium recently released new data directly downloadable from GeoStore – a one stop shop for digital 3D mapping, aerial imagery and LiDAR height data. The new data includes the Admiralty Raster Charts, and a new generation of vector data known as Marine Themes that is based on information sourced from the UK Hydrographic Office. These datasets are particularly relevant for environmental
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Top officials from more than 35 nations covering the world’s three major rainforest basin regions will gather at a United Nations-backed conference next month to discuss the common challenges faced by these vital ecosystems that support more than a billion people. The aim of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Amazon,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Campbell Scientific is pleased to announce the TX320, a new HDR GOES satellite transmitter. The TX320 uses GOES satellites to transmit data acquired by our data collection platforms (DCP). This new transmitter offers reliable GOES communication for remote hydrologic and meteorologic monitoring throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Safe Software announced today that FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, now offers unrivaled support for LiDAR and point cloud data. Organizations can now use the unmatched transformation capabilities in FME to quickly prepare LiDAR data to meet their precise requirements, enabling them to extract the full value from their LiDAR data assets to
