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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

RG and Flodim Introduce Cavity Survey Services in UK

RG has teamed up with Flodim, the French sonar specialists, to bring a full range of sonar survey services to the UK. Commercial operations will commence in November 2010 with field units based in Deganwy, North Wales as well as in Manosque in the South of France. We will offer offshore operations from early 2011.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Exprodat Lowers the KBridge

Alongside industry-leading GIS consulting and training services for the oil and gas sector, Exprodat provides a range of GIS-based software designed specifically for use in petroleum exploration and production (E&P) departments. One of these is the popular Team-GIS KBridge.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Somerset County Council Achieves End-To-End Highways Management With Confirm From Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that Somerset County Council has gone live with the UK’s most advanced highways management system, based on Confirm®, PBBI’s market-leading infrastructure asset maintenance and management system.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

European SOER2010 (State of Environment Report 2010)

The European environment — state and outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) is aimed primarily at policymakers, in Europe and beyond, involved with framing and implementing policies that could support environmental improvements in Europe. The information also helps European citizens to better understand, care for and improve Europe’s environment.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

GPS Mobile Mapping Used to Resolve Kosovo Private Property Claims

Forty-nine Ashtech® MobileMapper® 6 GPS/GIS field terminals have been purchased by two key Republic of Kosovo agencies, the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) and the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA), to map property boundaries to help resolve private property claims. While the KPA is specialized in solving property and juridical conflicts, the KCA on the other hand

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

New Bentley Pipe Renewal Planner Assesses Water Pipes to Improve Asset Planning, Increase System Reliability and Capacity

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the release of Bentley Pipe Renewal Planner, a new decision support tool that provides water utility owner-operators with a quantifiable and reproducible best practice for optimizing the replacement and rehabilitation of distribution network pipes. Pipe Renewal Planner ranks the worst-performing pipes in the network, helping owner-operators more effectively prioritize network upgrades.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Microsoft Press Announces Rollout of Windows Phone 7 Books

Smartphone application developers appear to be exceptionally interested in the new Windows® Phone 7, according to recent media reports. Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft Press announces a new slate of books and ebooks for Windows Phone 7. Tapping the expertise of Microsoft engineers and software designers, as well as top industry consultants and trainers,

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Sharing is Good – MicroSurvey CAD Ultimate

We’re sharing some of our PointCloud CAD features with MicroSurvey CAD 2010 – creating an Ultimate edition. A delicious solution for surveyors needing point cloud capabilities. Why should you pay for features that you don’t use? With MicroSurvey CAD 2010 you’re able to choose from four software packages: Basic, Standard, Premium and our all-new Ultimate edition. A solution

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Astrium Merges Spot Image and Infoterra

From January 2011, satellite imagery and geo-information specialists Spot Image and Infoterra, subsidiaries of Astrium Services, will combine forces to form its new GEO-Information business division. The GEO-Information division will offer a one-stop-shop portfolio of multisource, multi-resolution optical and radar satellite imagery under the Astrium brand. “Astrium Services is focused on becoming the world leader

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Harnessing the Power of Wind in Turkey

Turkey is surrounded by four seas and has a longcoast line of nearly 8700 kilometres. Wind energy in Turkey grew by 75% in 2009 to 800 MW. In order for Turkey to become one of the top 3 largest wind energy producers in Europe, the government has stated their aim to increase the wind energy