Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Federal University of São Carlos and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro have joined Bentley’s Be Careers Network. Through this innovative program, students and educators gain access to the same professional-grade software and training used by the world’s leading design and engineering firms.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
DeLorme, a leading innovator in mapping, GPS, and satellite communication technologies, has received an Outside Magazine Gear of the Show award and GearJunkie.com Best of Show honors for its soon-to-be-released inReach two-way satellite communicator. The awards stem from inReach’s debut at the 2011 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market. The annual Summer Market is the premier trade show for products
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Working on harmonic tidal analysis & datum conversion, we provide specialist solutions and consulting services to organizations world-wide. Our broad base of clients range from maritime operations, shipping, offshore oil & gas, fishing, environmental and government agencies.
Monday, August 15th, 2011
The new, updated website is now live with a number of additions and improvements, including a Themes section which groups selected waypoints by geographical feature, providing users with a different way of exploring the world. We’ve also added a number of audio slideshows to some of our waypoints (currently available on the Bangkok to Sydney, Miami
Monday, August 15th, 2011
The latest Earth observation satellite from UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. NigeriaSat-2, one of the most advanced Earth observation small satellites ever to be launched, will lift-off from Yasny in southern Russia on 17 August, together with NigeriaSat-X, which was built
Monday, August 15th, 2011
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced that users of geographic information systems (GIS) and geo-marketers have access to new tools to support their efforts. This new content is available now, having been integrated in NAVTEQ’s Census Boundaries and Census
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Quick Terrain Modeler v7.1.4 adds the most comprehensive user interface overhaul in our product’s history. The most obvious changes will be in the addition of a Layer Tree, an interactive Mini-Map, and new button icons on the button bar. These changes will make it much easier to interact with all the model, vector, texture, and
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
The world’s coral reefs face a multitude of threats, from rising ocean temperatures to overfishing. A new map aimed at aiding coral conservation has been developed that points out the reefs that are most and least at risk. The map, and the study that led to it, say researchers, will help to conserve some of the
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
As LiDAR data becomes increasingly accessible, a LiDAR-MapWindow Hydrographic Features Extraction tool has been designed to enhance watershed modeling. It is known that LiDAR can provide up to date information to guide decisions on flood insurance, it requires that terrain data be preprocessed into a regularly spaced grid of elevations (such as a DEM) before
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
FullAnalyze is a software for handling, visualizing and processing lidar data (3D point clouds and waveforms). FullAnalyze is a free software contributed by the MATIS laboratory at the IGN (Institut Géographique National: the French National Mapping Agency), and the CEMAGREF at the Maison de la Télédétection. It is released under the terms of the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) license. Read More
