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Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Schlesweg – Holstein Online Route Planner

Route Planner includes about 15,000 km cycling in an online tour planner. The Google-like map navigation is now available to cyclists the full potential of modern web mapping technology available. “Our development team has done it in a few weeks, a map application to develop, mainly in terms of usability sets new standards. “Ole Seidel, CEO of Geoinformatics alta4

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Siemens Tests New ICE 3 for Deutsche Bahn in Climatic Wind Tunnel

The Siemens Velaro high-speed train is in revenue service worldwide: It runs through Spanish deserts, travels under the hot sun in China and withstands the Russian winter. The latest generation of the supertrain, the Velaro D, will enter revenue service as the new Class 407 ICE 3 for Deutsche Bahn from the end of 2011.

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Technology Sold to China

PCI Geomatics announced it has been  awarded a contract to deliver a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Satellite processing system to China’s Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA). The GXL system includes support for three commercial high resolution optical satellite sensors, and the ability to generate orthorectified tiled mosaic products at high speed using PCI’s multi-threaded and GPU

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

First French-speaking gvSIG Users Conference

We have the pleasure to invite you to the First French-speaking gvSIG users Conference, that will be held in Rennes (France) the 1st July 2011 . With more than 6 years of experience the gvSIG Project has taken an important area at the geomatic world. At the Univerity of Rennes 2, this project has been adopted

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

SeaZone Launches New Services

To coincide with ”European Maritime Day” on the 20th May 2011, SeaZone is launching a range of new services. Many of our customers request not only data, but advice on how the data can be best used to support their operations and business processes.  SeaZone has acquired considerable experience and expertise in this area and consequently, we

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

OGC Reduces Membership Fees for Developing Nations

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced new membership options for organizations based in emerging economies. To support the current trend toward more global participation in the OGC’s open standards process, the OGC has responded to requests for a fee structure that gives certain categories of organizations discounts based on their country of registration. These categories

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Leica Active Assist: On-line Support in the Field

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the release of Leica Active Assist for Leica Viva GNSS and Leica Viva Total Stations. With Leica Active Assist support engineers can now directly connect to a customer’s field system and see exactly what the customer sees. For difficult support cases, the support engineer guides the customer quickly back

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

GMES Masters Innovation Competition Now Underway

With today’s contract signature, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA); Martin Zeil, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs; and Thorsten Rudolph, CEO of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) officially kicked off the GMES Masters innovation competition. The goal of this competition is to promote more widespread use of Earth observation data from the

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Blom Provides a Greater LiDAR Capacity for UK Forestry

Since November 2010, Blom UK have owned and operated the Optech ALTM 3033 LiDAR previously owned by Cambridge University’s Unit for Landscape Modelling. The instrument previously flown by the Unit was purchased by Blom UK as the university no longer wished to capture its own LiDAR data.  Specifically optimised with full waveform digitisation for data

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Alibre and 3D Systems Deliver Global First – Complete Design and 3D Printer Bundle

Alibre, Inc. announced the availability of the industry-first 3D printing hardware and software bundles. Partnering with 3D Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:TDSC), the global leader and inventor of rapid prototyping and 3D printing solutions, Alibre now offers complete 3D design and 3D printing for creators, DIYers and businesses. To meet the 3D printing needs of a growing