Friday, December 10th, 2010
An aircraft fitted with specially developed survey equipment is taking to the skies over Britain’s cities at night. Using a new super-sensitive thermal sensor Leicestershire based aerial mapping company Bluesky is capturing highly accurate measurements of heat loss from buildings. The results of these night-time thermal surveys will provide Local Authorities, energy providers and even
Friday, December 10th, 2010
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) AIMTC (Avon Information Management and Technology Consortium) HealthGIS has launched a new intranet mapping service to Primary Care Trust (PCT) clients in Avon, using Cadcorp GeognoSIS and Cadcorp SIS MapModeller. This new service – known as ‘HealthGIS Maps’ – has successfully delivered against its first project milestone, providing Pharmaceutical
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
In early December the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the ASPRS Foundation received an individual donation with a value of $90,000 to endow a new Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The Award will be administered through ASPRS and funded by the ASPRS Foundation. In accordance with the wishes of the donor, who
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Redlands GIS Week is being held at Esri’s state-of-the-art headquarters in Redlands, California. The week is dedicated to debating the present and future of creating, integrating, and extracting value from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Participants will connect with their peers and exchange ideas on advancing geospatial decision making, problem solving, and innovative solutions across industries.
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The RS Suite of remotely sensed ground control points (RSGCP) from CompassData will allow for the collection of ground control points in areas of the world that were previously difficult, if not impossible, to map due to access or geopolitical influences. The RS Suite empowered by TerraSAR-X technology from Infoterra GmbH, makes mapping points in
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Aerial processing system to an undisclosed aerial surveying firm. The GXL Aerial system will allow the customer to orthorectify and mosaic thousands of UltraCam images per day through the power
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Garmin International Inc. today announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, a completely free online community for creating, sharing and finding geocaches around the world. An exciting and engaging outdoor activity, geocaching combines exploration, education, entertainment and recreation. At OpenCaching.com, everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information – the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Improvements in address data quality are likely to be recorded in the public sector as a result of the launch of the National Address Gazetteer Database (NAGD). The intention of the database is to provide “one definitive source of accurate publicly-owned spatial address data”, with the information being collected and collated from local authorities and
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Steering Committee recently approved the GDI object catalog Flanders xGRAB well as a technical regulation to the CRAB specifications. XGRAB It is a system that will enable municipalities to address from a local file on a regular basis to exchange the AGIV. Municipalities that currently have an address database maintained and not immediately want to make use
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
DeLorme announced that Mike Heffron has been named President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 4, 2011. Heffron also will serve on the Board of Directors. He will be the first person to hold the office of CEO other than Company founder and owner David DeLorme, who will continue as Chairman of the Board of
