Friday, April 1st, 2011
Following approval from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the legal process to form GeoPlace has now been finalised, and production of the ‘national address gazetteer database’ to provide one definitive source of accurate spatial address data for England and Wales is now on track for delivery in the Autumn 2011. GeoPlace is a public sector
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Teledyne DALSA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has acquired a minority interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The green market for new construction is growing with builders to suppliers jumping to meet the demand. The green market was 2 percent of non-residential construction starts in 2005; 10 to 12 percent in 2008; and will grow to 20 to 25 percent by 2013. Not only is the demand growing, the evidence is mounting for
Friday, April 1st, 2011
A greatly enhanced version of 3-GIS’s Express Solution Inspection Management Module has been released. The Inspection Management Module extends the functionality of 3-GIS’s Network Express and Field Express applications, leveraging these Esri-enabled web and field applications to effectively enable a utility’s inspection and maintenance activities. 3-GIS has enhanced the Inspection Management module to better assist
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics very own Samuel Knight is attempting to set a brand new World Record for the longest webinar ever given. This seminar will be an extremely detailed look into the need for proper use of punctuation within metadata. Metadata can be very useful inside geospatial software yet, gets lost in translation without the
Friday, April 1st, 2011
OSCRE (the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate) today announced that they have updated their Memorandum of Understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to reflect OSCRE’s new global focus following last year’s merger between PISCES and OSCRE Americas. OSCRE and the OGC organizations are now putting a new level of emphasis on collaborative standards
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, HD video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the A7 IP Camera SoC, bringing high-quality 1080p60 H.264 performance to the video surveillance market. The A7 integrates a high performance image sensor pipeline with up to 500 MHz pixel capture rate with a multi-streaming 1080p60 H.264 encoder and power
Friday, April 1st, 2011
When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by providing its satellite imagery of the devastation in northern Japan to relief agencies, governments and the media.
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Starting today, the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 will once again welcome companies, start-ups, research institutions, universities, and even individuals all over the world to submit their innovative ideas in the field of satellite navigation. The overall winner – the Galileo Master – will be chosen from the winners of more than 20 regions in
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
With maps based on Esri technology, Glendale Valley Municipal Authority is able to quickly locate problems and plan for future renovations, a move that will improve water quality and reduce groundwater infiltration to the sewage system. The company, which serves a growing population of 1,000 customers in the State of Pennsylvania, is taking advantage of Esri’s
