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Monday, February 21st, 2011

MLC CAD Systems Wins SolidWorks Top Reseller Performance Award at SolidWorks World 2011

MLC CAD Systems, one of the largest SolidWorks resellers in North America, was recognized by SolidWorks Corporation as the company’s Top Reseller in Overall Performance in North America in 2010. The award was announced at SolidWorks World 2011 International User Conference & Exposition in San Antonio, TX. 

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Visualant Licensee, Javelin LLC Announces Initial Focus Environmental Applications to Identify Oil in Water

Visualant, Inc. a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions, announced today that its licensee for environmental applications, Javelin LLC, is focusing its initial development efforts on utilizing the Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching (“SPM”) technology to determine the presence of oil in water and the presence of adulterates in oil.

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Better Mapping of Human Settlements to Support Crisis Management Operations

When a major disaster strikes in remote parts of the world, knowing if the area is populated, and how densely, is crucial for the effective organisation of humanitarian operations. The Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL), developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), will soon provide this detailed information for the first time on

Monday, February 21st, 2011

ProconGPS Partners with Bertram Capital to Pursue Expansion Plans

ProconGPS, Inc. announced today that it has partnered with Bertram Capital, a private equity firm based in San Mateo, CA with more than $850 million of capital under management, to complete a recapitalization of the company and to fund continued growth.  ProconGPS’s existing leadership team will remain completely in place and continue to direct the Company’s strategy and manage

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Efficient Workflow for Comprehensive Bathymetric Data Management

Throughout history, understanding the ocean depths has been of significant interest. Being able to navigate the ocean waters has led to the rise and fall of empires; the discovery of new countries; and, recently, the use of their natural resources to sustain those who reside on land. The technology used today to chart the ocean floor is much

Monday, February 21st, 2011

GNSS SIGNALS 201

The aim of his workshop is to provide an overview of GNSS signals, characteristics, and performances related to any of the navigation, positioning, timing, attitude determination and scientific GNSS services. The use of EGNOS 3&4 and GALILEO 1&2 signals, and all other GNSS signals for operational and/or scientific  applications, with 1 to 5 frequencies, will be considered.

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council Launch Online Mapping System from Cadcorp

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council has launched its on-line public mapping system based on the Web Map Layers product from Cadcorp. Sharing geographic information with the general public marks the final stage of corporate deployment of GIS in this popular south coast tourist resort. Read More

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Invitation to Join 4th Int. Conference on HealthGIS

The world is facing the serious challenge from  new emerging diseases such as Chicken Guinea, Bird Flu, Dengue and also the old ones such as AIDS, Malaria and many others. A strategy to prevent their emergence is the key to ensure safety from these deadly disease. Can we use modern technologies to ensure health for

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

12 PhD Researcher Positions – Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks

A series of 12 PhD positions, financed by the European Community, are available within the European Marie Curie Initial Training Network CHANGES. The CHANGES network will develop an advanced understanding of how global changes (related to environmental and climate change as well as socio-economical change) will affect the temporal and spatial patterns of hydro-meteorological hazards and associated risks in Europe;

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Inaugural Hexagon 2011 International Conference to Deliver

Hexagon AB will host its inaugural international conference, Hexagon 2011, 6-9 June at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA. Hexagon 2011 will bring together the latest technologies and user communities from Intergraph, as well as Hexagon’s Metrology, Geosystems and Technology divisions, in one location to provide attendees with a user experience of unprecedented scope and