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Thursday, December 9th, 2010

ASPRS Receives $90K Donation to Endow an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award

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 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

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

CompassData Announces Major Expansion of GCP Product Line

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 Awarded Contract for its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A) Technology

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

OpenCaching.com – Garmin Geocaching Launches New Platform

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

UK National Address Gazetteer Database to be Launched for Public Sector

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

xGRAB Object Catalog Approved by Steering Committee GDI Flanders

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 Names Mike Heffron as New President and CEO

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

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Skanska to Expand in Residential Development – Launches Operations in the UK and Poland

Skanska’s new business plan up to 2015 will focus on profitable growth. One of the areas with the best growth potential and in which Skanska plans to invest the most in coming years is residential development. The goal is to sharply increase the number of residential development projects in Skanska’s existing markets and to assume the

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

NASA to Present Keynote at COM.Geo 2011 Conference

NASA will deliver a keynote titled “NASA World Wind: Infrastructure for Spatial Data” at the COM.Geo 2011 conference in Washington, DC May 23th – 25th, 2011. The world has great need for analysis of Earth observation data, be it climate change, carbon monitoring, disaster response, national defense or simply local resource management. To best provide