Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery for international customers in Russia and its neighboring countries.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Sparx Systems today announced a partnership with Geoplex. The partnership follows the ongoing success of Sparx Systems’ flagship modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, within the geospatial sector. Widely used within the geospatial community to manage information architectures, Enterprise Architect has been adopted within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to maintain all ISO19100 family models for
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
The Centre and Isro on Tuesday announced an upgraded remote sensing data sharing policy, making the process of accessing images easier. The previous policy allowed Isro to release data of up to 5.8 metre resolution, instead of 1 metre now. An Isro official told TOI, “Considering the availability of data on commercial websites, the government has decided to provide
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
The Government of Alberta has taken another step toward realizing its climate change goals by signing a final agreement with Shell Canada Energy for the Shell Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The project will capture and store more than one million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from the Scotford Upgrader and its
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to officially release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition, its latest server-based software, to global market. Designed for creating, managing and distributing diverse GIS resources over the Internet to support desktop, mobile and web applications, SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition assists enterprises in developing, managing, integrating, and publishing multiple GIS services in
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
While performing satellite imagery of the Black Sea water areas on June 24 the specialists of ScanEx Center detected an extensive slick on the sea surface of ship origin. As of the moment of detecting the slick, in an intricate elongated form, outstretched 119 km within the Russian sector of the Black Sea 155 km
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
NAVTEQ is now offering Postal Code Boundaries in Europe. The polygons in this new product are geo-referenced to the industry leading NAVTEQ map, which allows highly effective territorial comparison and analysis in a broad range of enterprise and GIS applications. Read More
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Safe Software announced today that they will kick off the FME Data Access Challenge at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, CA from July 11 – 15, 2011. Participants in this initiative will find out how they can solve their toughest data transformation headaches with FME, the leading technology for spatial data transformation.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Bluesky has launched a new on demand service to complement its existing solar mapping product. The service provides detailed solar panel suitability assessment reports for individual properties and developments. Suitable for commercial, industrial, public sector and even large domestic properties the Bluesky SolAR (Solar Assessment Report) service provides an interactive 3D model of the property
