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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

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

ERDAS Releases ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS 10

ERDAS announces a new release of ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS, a production suite of tools that enhance the ArcGIS® 10 platform with ERDAS’  image processing and stereo feature collection capabilities. ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS 10 consists of Image Analysis for ArcGIS, Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS, and two optional modules that extend Stereo Analyst functionality, ERDAS

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Microsoft’s Azure Expands Mapping in the Cloud

Digital Map Products (DMP), a leading provider of cloud-based spatial technology solutions, announced that the company’s ParcelStream™ web service for nationwide parcel boundary data, is now available through Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket. Through DataMarket, developers and information workers can access DMP’s parcel boundaries and parcel interactivity features through simple, cross platform compatible APIs and

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

New Final Version of gvSIG Available: gvSIG 1.10

The main new features of gvSIG 1.10 are Sextante 0.6 (GRASS 6.4 interface included) and NavTable extensions integration, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 compatibility. Another new features of this version are: – gvSIG 1.9 bug fixes – Binaries compilation for JVM 1.6 (with JVM 1.5 compatibility) – Pie and bar chart legend – Relative