Monday, December 6th, 2010
The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ahead of the planned schedule. The successful PDR completion validated the spacecraft’s design maturity, meeting or exceeding all GeoEye standards and program requirements. Read More
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Trimble introduced today eCognition version 8.64, an advanced image analysis software suite available for geospatial applications. With the software release, Trimble sets a new standard for native 64-bit object based image analysis—an important technical milestone for the processing of very large image datasets. Today’s production workflows can benefit tremendously from the additional random access memory
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, today announced that Todd Oseth has joined the Company, effective December 6, 2010, as its president and chief executive officer. Mr. Oseth has been appointed to drive the monetization of Intermap’s valuable NEXTMap database and its associated products and services offerings, advancing Intermap’s transition
Monday, December 6th, 2010
OpenLayers is an open source Java Script library for displaying map data in web browsers. It provides an API for building rich web-based mapping applications. This one day course will introduce attendees to OpenLayers. Delegates will learn how to create a map using style declarations and map initialization code. The course will enable delegates to understand
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Trimble’s leading UK distributor, KOREC, has announced the launch of the Trimble® FastMapTM Mobile Drainage Network Surveyor system, a high accuracy mapping solution developed by the Trimble Professional Services group. The system offers industry specific functionality for highways and drainage contactors working in the UK on behalf of the Highways Agency or utility water companies.
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Landmap is pleased to launch the new Landmap Kaia Client to the academic community. This is a major overhaul of the Beta release Kaia client with many big changes including new data additions and methods of download from the interface. We have undertaken this change in the hope of providing a better user experience and provide improved access
Monday, December 6th, 2010
First Minister Alex Salmond today announced an annual award, to be presented under the auspices of Scotland’s marine energy Saltire Prize, to recognise outstanding contributions to the development of wave and tidal power. The Saltire Prize, which has attracted more than 150 registrations of interest from 31 countries and already two confirmed applicants, will see £10
Monday, December 6th, 2010
ITT Corporation announced its agreement to purchase the business operations of EchoStorm Worldwide. The privately held EchoStorm delivers innovative video and data management technology for military, government, and commercial applications. EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real
Monday, December 6th, 2010
GNSS market forecasting is of great interest to private and public GNSS stakeholders, for business and strategic planning and policymaking. According to the new GSA report, the market for GNSS will grow significantly over the next decade, reaching in 2020 up to €244 billion for the overall GNSS enabled market (accounting for the full retail
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
The Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori began full services Saturday on the extended section between Hachinohe and Shin-Aomori stations in Aomori Prefecture. The extension enables people to travel the 675 km between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations in about three hours and 20 minutes, about 40 minutes less than before. The full service came
