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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

SuperGeo Announces New Reseller in Nepal

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially announced its latest partner in Nepal, where SeaGate Institute of Technology is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Situated in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, SeaGate Institute of Technology offers services and training related to Information Technology. The services are involved with GIS

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

SuperGeo to Release the Latest Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially announced its latest product – Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0, to assist in field survey and cadastral navigation measurement. Since being first released in November 2010, Mobile Cadastral GIS has been utilized extensively.   In view of a large quantity of positive feedback and valuable

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

SeaZone HydroSpatial II – The UK’s Leading Marine Mapping Solution

A pilot evaluation area for SeaZone HydroSpatial Version 2.0 is to be launched in April 2011. This is a great opportunity for marine data users to evaluate and help shape the next generation of SeaZone HydroSpatial. Developments will include :

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

RapidEye Now Has the “Lion’s Share” of Africa

RapidEye announced today that it has recently completed an extensive imagery campaign over Africa. The campaign, which ran for 25 weeks from September of 2010 until March 1, 2011, produced over 107 Million km² of the continent of Africa which is now available for purchase from the RapidEye Library. h

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

NAVTEQ Maps Now Power Panasonic’s New Digital Cameras

NAVTEQ is supplying NAVTEQ map and location content for Panasonic’s LUMIX DMC-TZ20/ZS10 and DMC-FT3/TS3, the newest member of Panasonic’s acclaimed LUMIX Series of digital cameras. Traditionally, consumers can only organize their photo collection via date/time. With the integration of maps and location content in an increasing number of imaging devices, consumers can now geographically organize

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Veolia Water and Orange Launch m2o City, a Smart Metering Operator

-Veolia Water and Orange are joining forces in the smart metering sector and are launching m2o city, an operator specialized in remote environmental data and water meter reading services. Building on the expertise of Veolia Water – which already operates over 200,000 water meters – and Orange’s expertise as a telco, the m2o cityjoint-venture offers

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

ENEL Green Power Expanding Operations Costa Rica

Construction has begun on a new hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica, between the provinces of Alajuela and San José.   The new plant, named Chucas, will have an installed capacity of 50 MW, and once fully up and running, will generate around 219 million kWh/year, equal to the annual consumption of over 81 thousand households

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

LINZ Releases Post Christchurch Earthquake Aerial Imagery

The public can now access the same aerial imagery of Christchurch that Police, Civil Defence, and other emergency responders have been using to assess damage to the area. The imagery of the city was flown on 24 February, and clearly shows the extent of the damage from the 22 February quake. As the country’s national mapping agency, Land Information

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

GEO-11 To Host Product Launches, Software Demonstrations and Promotions

Exhibitors at GEO-11 have selected the UK’s No 1 GEO Event as the perfect opportunity to launch new surveying and data capture instruments, demonstrate software upgrades and showcase business promotions. Platinum Sponsors Leica Geosystems will use GEO-11 to launch a brand new High Definition Surveying™ 3D Laser Scanner while Faro will be showcasing its own

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

OGC Forms International Water Information Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG). WaterML 2.0 is a candidate OGC encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data. WaterML 2.0 is implemented as an application schema of the Geography Markup Language (GML) version 3.2.1 and makes use of the OGC