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Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Webinar on Architecture, Engineering and Construction Business

Autodesk Inc. will host a webinar to discuss its Architecture, Engineering and Construction business segment. Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry Group at Autodesk will conduct a brief slide presentation followed by a question and answer session.

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

European Researchers Use GNSS Technologies in a Weather Forecasting

The EU-funded GalileoCast project brings together three small companies to develop innovative weather-related services that use satellite positioning technologies. ‘GalileoRoads’ is one such service being launched by this project, using hybrid methods that combine fixed and mobile meteorological observations to produce very-high-resolution road condition models and weather forecasts. Read More

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Esri UK Helps Students Improve Potential Employability

Esri UK announced that it has renewed an agreement to make GIS software available to colleges and universities in the UK and Ireland, at a substantially reduced price, through an Eduserv Chest agreement. The new three year agreement adds to Esri UK’s existing 19 year participation in Chest through which 80 per cent of UK

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Over 320 Innovations Submitted for Agritechnica 2011

World’s largest forum for presenting new agricultural machinery and equip-ment – Gold and Silver Medals for innovations – Attractive magazines with details of all company innovations – Innovations to be published on the inter-net in early October. DLG). Agritechnica is the world’s largest forum for presenting new agricultural machinery and equipment. This year the exhibition

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

GRAPHISOFT BIMx – iPad/iPhone Interactive Building Model Explorer

BIMx (Building Information Model Explorer) is an interactive environment with game-like navigation, whereby anyone can explore full BIM models without holding a license of the professional authoring software in which the building model was originally created. ArchiCAD users have been able to publish self-running BIMx models for their clients to run on desktop computers (Win/Mac) – now

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

2nd European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) Programme

The organisers of the 2nd European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) to be held in Salzburg, Austria from November 29-30, have today launched the 2011 programme.  The programme promotes a truly international theme where speakers in the international LIDAR community represent nearly 20 countries from all over the world: UAE, Russia, Australia, USA, Canada and several European countries including

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Intermap Announces $1.8 Million NEXTMap Data Sale

Intermap, a leading provider of location-based information (LBI) solutions created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced that it has received a $1.8 million contract to provide digital elevation data and orthorectified radar imagery from its NEXTMap database. The data will be used by the customer for regional planning

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Partners Join Forces to Launch National Service for Underground Assets in the U.K.

The partners behind Intelligent Trench (an innovative underground mapping solution) are joining forces with PelicanCorp (provider of the beforeUdig service) to launch the most complete and accurate national record-sharing service for underground assets in the United Kingdom. This no-charge service enables authorities, statutory undertakers, and contractors to use the Intelligent Trench portal to access utility

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

3D Laser Mapping Drives South African Road Project

MHP Geomatics has purchased a high speed laser scanner to capture highly accurate 3D measurements as part of a multi-million Rand upgrade project for the South African National Roads Agency. The Riegl VZ-400 supplied by 3D Laser Mapping will be used by MHP, a market leader in professional land management services based in Durban, South

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

New 2D/3D Viewer App for iPad and iPhone

DataCAD GmbH has announced the availability of a new 2D/3D drawing viewer app for iPad and iPhone: TurboViewer Pro from IMSI/Design, the manufacturer of DoubleCAD. “The new TurboViewer Pro adds a host of powerful new viewing features, making TurboViewer Pro the fastest and most capable 2D and 3D viewer on the iOS platform,” Ulrich Oehler, CEO of DataCAD explained. Read more