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Friday, February 18th, 2011

Greenstone Carbon Management to Showcase Online Carbon Management Software

Greenstone is a specialist carbon solutions company. We work in partnership with major commercial and public sector organisations to enable them to measure, manage and mitigate their carbon emissions and obligations responsibly. Greenstone’s central proposition is to provide our clients with the necessary tools, skills and knowledge to measure and manage their carbon emissions on an

Friday, February 18th, 2011

GeoCore 2.0 Release Features Spatial Database Support for Software Developers

Blue Marble Geographics announces the release of GeoCore 2.0, the all-in-one data conversion developer tool kit for geospatial data. The updated version of GeoCore includes the latest versions of GeoTransform, GeoCalc, and GeoTranslate software development toolkits. With these three products combined into GeoCore, users can seamlessly work with any Blue Marble data conversion toolkits in

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Essays on Geography and GIS, Volume 3, Now Available

Esri recently released Volume 3 in its popular Essays on Geography and GIS e-book series. In this collection of essays and articles, thought leaders in the fields of geography and geographic information system (GIS) technology provide insight into the power of spatial thinking. Essays on Geography and GIS, Volume 3, is available for download at no

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Trimble’s Next Generation GeoExplorer 6000 Series Handheld Delivers High-Accuracy GNSS Positioning

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today the new GeoExplorer® 6000 series of high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) handheld computers. The series delivers dramatic improvements in difficult GNSS environments such as urban canyons and under tree canopy using Trimble® Floodlight™ satellite shadow reduction technology. The Trimble GeoExplorer 6000 series handhelds are purpose built for high-accuracy data collection

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

RapidEye Completes Second Coverage of China in Two Years

RapidEye announced today that the second coverage of China for the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) in as many years has been delivered. The imagery campaign, which ran from August 1, 2010 through January 11, 2011 was intended to cover almost 5.8 Million square kilometers; 60% of the country. The project was successfully delivered

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Partnership Agreement for Leica SmartNet Greece, Incorporating MetricaNet

On 31th January, a Leica SmartNet Greece partnership agreement between Leica Geosystems and its distribution partner Metrica, has been signed in Athens. Locally the network will maintain the name MetricaNet, as part of Leica SmartNet Europe, due to the long standing marketing of MetricaNet in Greece. The agreement forms a new partnership to establish a

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Nine New Research Units

Topics range from three-dimensional railway line planning to changes in rice cultivation to political communication in the online age. First group in new acoustics funding area established. Following a decision taken by its Senate, the DFG is to establish nine new Research Units. These new groups are intended to provide researchers with the opportunity to

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

GIS Coordinator, European Topic Centre on Spatial Information and Analysis – Malaga (Spain)

The European Topic Centre for Spatial Information Analysis (ETC/SIA) is an international consortium assisting the European Environment Agency (EEA) in its mission to deliver information on the state and trends of the environment. The lead is the University of Malaga, Spain (UMA).

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

NATA Accreditation is Here!

After several years’ planning and over a year and half’s hard work, SESL has received its highly valued NATA accreditation. NATA – the National Association of Testing Authorities – independently tests and verifies a laboratory’s ability to perform to world’s best practice. NATA accreditation is the highest form of verification available.

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

New Appointment at OMNILINK to Focus on Spatial Data for Business

OMNILINK Pty Limited has appointed Margreet van de  Werfhorst as its Senior Data Account Manager, based in Sydney.  Margreet will work across all of OMNILINK’s lines of business to promote the value of spatial data and its integration with business applications.