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Thursday, November 4th, 2010

First Results of the Satellite-based Monitoring of Northern Caspian

First result of the satellite-based monitoring of oil pollution in the Northern Caspian Sea have been summed up. Starting June 2010 ScanEx R&D Center by the order of the “Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft” company has been conducting satellite-based monitoring of oil spills of the sea surface near the Yuri Korchagin oil field in the Caspian Sea. The main

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Over 12000 Landsat-5 Scenes Acquired in 2010 by Russian Receiving Stations

The second stage of the International Project “Global Land Survey 2010” (GLS-2010) to create a full coverage of the Earth with Landsat 5 and 7images is complete. Starting on June 1, 2010 ScanEx RDC has received Landsat-5 data to its own network of ground stations located in Moscow, Irkutsk and Magadan. For imaging of the Arctic areas

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

AeroGRID Launches WMS Service for Pan-European Imagery

AeroGRID has launched a new WMS service (Web Mapping Service) to enable customers to stream Pan-European imagery directly to their desktops. AeroGRID is now in the process of loading 1.7 million km² (over 1 million square miles) of 12.5cm to 50cm resolution imagery, of Western Europe.  This includes the whole of Benelux, Britain, France, Germany

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

kubit teaching “Reality Capture” for Autodesk University 2010: Attend Virtually

We want to inform you that kubit is proud to be participating as instructors at this year’s Autodesk University 2010. We invite you all to this opportunity to attend any of the 5 Autodesk University Virtual classes hosted by familiar kubit representatives and broadcasted to your computer screens. Our idea this year is to educate

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Selects NAVTEQ for U.S. Map Data Coverage

NAVTEQ announces their agreement with the FCC to supply nationwide map data in support of broadband availability analysis for U.S. states and territories. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 charges the FCC with developing a national broadband plan so that all Americans have access to broadband capability.  Under the National Telecommunications and Information

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

3D Laser Mapping System to Predict Avalanches in the Himalayas

Laser mapping technology is being employed to predict avalanches in the Himalayas.  The SiteMonitor laser monitoring system, developed by 3D Laser Mapping and first used to monitor gold mines in Africa, is being distributed by M/s Elcome Technologies, Gurgaon in India.  Supplied by Elcome the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) is now using SiteMonitor

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Telogis Delivers New Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Telogis is excited to announce today the addition of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) capabilities into its Telogis GeoBase geospatial platform. Incorporating this NAVTEQ data into the platform allows for features such as adaptive/predictive cruise control, lane departure warnings, collision avoidance and speed adaptation technology to be built into routing/navigational applications. Please review the attached release and

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Australian Participation: Information about the 2nd Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS

Although the deadline for registration and submission of abstracts has passed, please read this email carefully. If you have ANY interest in getting involved in the “Multi-GNSS Asia” (MGA) projects then please register if you have not already done so (registration is free). I have asked for a week’s extension, till 6 November. See http://www.multignss.asia/workshop.html. There

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

BT and IMSERV Sign Long Term Deal

IMServ, a leading carbon and energy consultancy and part of Invensys Operation Management, has won its biggest ever contract with BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider. IMServ has been working with BT for the last nine years and the contract renewal follows a competitive tender process. The five year contract comprises the collection of data relating

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

LINZ Data Service is ‘go’

IMServ, a leading carbon and energy consultancy and part of Invensys Operation Management, has won its biggest ever contract with BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider. IMServ has been working with BT for the last nine years and the contract renewal follows a competitive tender process. The five year contract comprises the collection of data relating