Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Isilon today announced that Aerial Services, Inc.(ASI) has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its aerial mapping and geospatial services workflow. Using the Isilon X-Series, ASI has unified its image processing and analysis onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to accelerate project delivery, while reducing operating costs. With Isilon, ASI has been
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
“It looks unlikely that leaders at the climate negotiations at Cancún will get it together to face reality and prevent catastrophe,” says Alan AtKisson, sustainability consultant to governments and business, and author of the bestselling book Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World, a new edition of which is published this month
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has acquired PixelActive. The acquisition is an extension of NAVTEQ’s strategy to accelerate expansion from a 2D to 3D map, as well as providing further opportunity to leverage 3D technologies for all NAVTEQ products.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Fire Insight product suite is an innovative and powerful range of probabilistic computer models giving a highly detailed perspective into the distribution of Commercial Property risks across the UK. The models are based on extensive research using the latest available information, powerful computing and the most sophisticated analytics to identify areas most likely to experience
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announced a sales achievement. SuperGeo Malaysia successfully promoted SuperGIS Desktop to Capai Cerah, a consultancy company in Malaysia. Established in Kuala Lumpur, Capai Cerah targets at project services for several government sectors in Malaysia. Capai Cerah provides environmental impact assessment consultancy services for
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Statkraft has decided to construct the Kargi hydropower plant in Turkey. The hydropower plant, which is planned to be completed at the end of 2013, will be Statkraft’s second plant in Turkey. With an installed capacity of 102 MW, Kargi will have an average annual generation of 467 GWh, enough to cover the electricity needs of
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Matrox Graphics Inc. unveils the ultimate building block for video wall controllers with the new Matrox Mura™ controller board, capable of capturing four full 1080p HD inputs and simultaneously driving four monitors at up to 2048×1080, while maintaining full RGB 888 image quality.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
How to Increase Production Throughput Using GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial – GXL-A: a high volume image production solution that extends UltraMap for high speed Ortho and Mosaic creation. In October 2010, PCI Geomatics and Vexcel Imaging GmbH introduced the GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A), a new high speed production solution that extends the UltraMap photogrammetric workflow software to provide
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
This 2010 assessment is a collaborative project of the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments. It was designed and prepared under the guidance of a federal-provincial-territorial steering committee and is published by the Canadian Councils of Resource Ministers. It forms part of Canada’s commitment to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Authors and reviewers include hundreds
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a new URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community. The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who represent the young membership of the organization. The Cabinet’s
