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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

BroadMap Data to Power Key Online Maps

BroadMap, a leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, services and solutions provider, and TrueVector Technologies, a first-generation interactive mapping company, today announced an agreement that combines BroadMap’s premium geospatial data and GIS services with TrueVector’s interactive online maps. TrueVector Technologies solves diverse challenges for clients by using online mapping tools that visually display data and provide

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Industrial Survey – Deformation Analysis, Precision Measurement

AAM Industrial Surveyors are tasked with a variety of projects that involve supplying accurate 3D as-built information about a structure; deformation monitoring of surfaces subject to wear, and mapping objects in motion. This case study describes a package of works, dubbed ‘Measure, Monitor, Map’, undertaken at BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 blast furnace at Port Kembla during

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

INSPIRE Network Services and Data Specifications Regulations Published

To ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context, the Directive requires that common Implementing Rules (IR) are adopted in a number of specific areas (Metadata, Data Specifications, Network Services, Data and Service Sharing and Monitoring and Reporting). These IRs are adopted as

Monday, December 13th, 2010

NGA Increases Commitment to ERDAS Products with 5-Year Contract Renewal

ERDAS is pleased to announce that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recently signed a 5-year contract renewal with ERDAS. The contract includes support and upgrades for NGA’s existing ERDAS software holdings and preferred buying arrangements for additional products, licenses and software maintenance renewals. NGA currently owns licenses for most products in the ERDAS portfolio, including

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Foundation for Climate Deal Laid in Cancun

Governments at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, managed to approve a series of tangible if modest steps that sets up a “global climate fund” to help poor nations, create a mechanism to share clean technologies, protect tropical forests and help the poor adapt to impacts ranging from storms to rising sea levels, says

Monday, December 13th, 2010

GeoEye Appoints Tony Frazier as Senior Vice President, Marketing

GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has appointed Tony Frazier as its senior vice president of Marketing. Frazier most recently served as senior director of Product Management and Marketing at Cisco Systems, where he focused on bringing to market emerging technologies

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Sliding Truss Keeps Ohio River Bridge Open

After several years of public debate and planning, construction has begun on the Milton-Madison Bridge along the Kentucky-Indiana border in the US. The work involves reinforcing the bridge’s original support piers as well as replacing the ageing superstructure with a wider and safer one.

Monday, December 13th, 2010

4D High Resolution Monitoring of Glacier Evolution, Virkisjökull, Iceland

Virkisjökull is an outlet glacier draining the western flanks of Oraefajökull, the southern extremity of the Vatnajökull ice cap in south-east Iceland. The glacier is sensitive to climatic forcing due to a relatively low accumulation–ablation area ratio and significant altitudinal difference between summit and margin. The long-term BGS monitoring project at Virkisjökull aims to quantify glacial and geomorphological

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Mindanao Hydro Plant Upgrade to Cost P3 billion

The rehabilitation and upgrade of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power facilities will cost around P3 billion, an official said. “The rehabilitation work needed to put up an additional 100 to 200 megawatts will cost around P2 billion. If we would like to add or uprate some of the facilities, for instance Pulangi, which will

Monday, December 13th, 2010

GTZ at the 1st UATP Congress on the African Public Transport

Mr. Michael Engelskirchen, GTZ Transport Advisor, was invited to make a presentation about the Rea Vaya BRT system in Johannesburg as a best practice example for the implementation of BRT in African cities. The presentation was held in the Public Transport, Modal Choice and integration session on 5th October 2010 and was attended by more