Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) recently hosted their annual lunch at The Bluebird restaurant on London’s fashionable King’s Road. Attendees were treated to three courses of superb food served in the luxurious surroundings of the private Beaufort Room, as well a fascinating presentation from James Bamford and Johannes Kebeck of Bing Maps.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Esri president Jack Dangermond received the Arthur C. Lundahl Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) last week in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dangermond accepted the award at the 2010 GEOINT Symposium, the nation’s premier geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) event. The nonprofit USGIF hosts the symposium as part of its mission to promote
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Blue Marble Geographics held its second annual Users Conference at the Hilton Westchase Houston, TX on October 28th. The conference was well attended by Blue Marble users, developers, and geodesists from a variety of industries and companies from around the world. The attendees learned the ins and outs of the Blue Marble toolkit and met
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial geospatial information and services, announced today strong revenue results for its fiscal third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2010. Total revenues were $86.5 million for the third quarter of 2010, an 8.1% increase from $79.9 million for the third quarter of 2009. Learn More
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
With over 60 delegates from 35 different organisations, the latest Gazetteer Best Practice Day from Aligned Assets has been declared a resounding success. Held at the Media Resource Centre in Llandrindod on 2nd November, it saw six presentations focusing on best practice in gazetteers, all against the backdrop of unique complexities faced by the public sector
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The fourth satellite of the Italian Earth observation constellation COSMO-SkyMed was launched successfully at 07:20 p.m. on 5 November 2010 (03:20 a.m. on 6 November in Italy), via a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was duly acquired at 04:27 a.m., Italian time, by Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre, which
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, has launched the Centre for European Union Small and Medium Enterprises (EU SME Centre) in Beijing on 5 November. Funded by the European Commission, this new venture will provide information, advice, training and matchmaking opportunities for European SMEs wishing to export to or
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
IBGE reveals today, November 4, the resident population in each of the 5.565 Brazilian municipalities on August 1st, 2010, according to the results of the 2010 Population Census, carried out from August 1st to October 31, which enumerated 185,712,713 people in the whole Brazil.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri, making ArcGIS software tools available for unlimited use by authorized NASA employees and contractors. The agreement reflects NASA’s extensive and growing use of Esri’s ArcGIS software to bring geospatial intelligence to a wide variety of mission-critical efforts, from streamlining operations
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps and location-based services, is celebrating 25 years at the forefront of industry. Having begun operations in 1985, the company today holds over 400 patents and supplies data to over 1700 customers across the globe. Since the opening of its first Asia-Pacific (APAC) office in Japan in 1996, NAVTEQ has
