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Thursday, March 24th, 2011

ERDAS 11 World Tour Goes to Italy!

ERDAS will co-host a series of 11 World Tour events with distributor Planetek Italia in March and April. The Italian branch of the tour will kick off on March 29 in Rome at the Star Hotel Metropole, and will include stops in Palermo, Milan, Venice, Cagliari and Bari.  The tour will conclude on April 19

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Stephen D. DeGloria Elected as ASPRS Vice President

The results of the 2011 election have been tallied by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Tellers Committee and they reported that Stephen D. DeGloria, a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, won the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2011.  With the installation of officers at the ASPRS

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Web-based Augmented Reality with FLARToolKit

Creating Augmented Reality experiences in the web today is possible thanks to a number of options. The solution that grants the wider reaching capability in the web is undoubtedly Flash-based Augmented Reality. FLARToolKit is the most widely used Flash-based AR library with the support of a large developer community and many websites with example applications. FLARToolKit is the

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

MAPPS Praises DHS Emergency Response Contract

DHS has issued a request for qualifications from private firms for “Remote Sensing to Support Incident Management and Homeland Security”. Under the contract to be awarded,  approximately four  teams of firms will be under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) firm-fixed price contracts for five years. Services to be provided via task orders under the contract will

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

AutoCAD 2012 Products Deliver Flexibility and Accessibility

Autodesk, Inc. announced the availability of the AutoCAD 2012 software products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 offering. The AutoCAD 2012 products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 series are AutoCAD-based design software that give users the flexibility to use AutoCAD in a variety of industries, and the accessibility to stay connected to their work no matter where

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

5th GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference

The Royal Institute of Navigation, London, UK, the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, UK, and the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia have a pleasure in welcoming you to the GNSS Vulnerabilities Conference to be held 23 – 25 May, 2011 in Baška. This traditional and unique world-wide

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Aon Benfield Selects International Geocoding from Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, today announced that the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, Aon Benfield, has signed a deal for its Spectrum data management solution, incorporating the Enterprise Geocoding module, Location Intelligence module and global data. 

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Hemisphere GPS Reports 2010 Q4 Year-End Results

Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010, Hemisphere GPS reported $12.2 million in revenues, compared to$12.1 million recorded in the fourth quarter of

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

NOAA’s Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt Receives MAPPS Public Service Award

Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt, Coastal Geospatial Services Division Chief, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC, has been presented the MAPPS Public Service Award. Mr. Schmidt was recognized for forging public-private partnerships, and inter-agency and inter-governmental arrangements to carry out NOAA projects that promote economic development and environmental balance in

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Geoscape Introduces Next-Generation GIS Platform

Driven by the surge of diverse cultural groups such as Hispanics and Asians, corporations are asking themselves how they will capitalize and better-serve the emerging American marketplace. Geoscape unveiled today its latest solution to addressing the modern American family through its “Next-Generation” platform. The Geoscape Intelligence System, or GIS helps corporate operations and marketing departments