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Monday, January 24th, 2011

ERDAS Connects with World Intelligence Community at DGI 2011

ERDAS will attend Defense Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, UK, January 24-27, 2011. DGI facilitates high-level discussion of the importance and challenges of using geospatial intelligence in defense and national security operations.  It is the largest forum of its kind in Europe, averaging about 600 attendees from

Monday, January 24th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence 2011 Conference

LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #52 at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011 Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London this week. The company will showcase GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and

Monday, January 24th, 2011

URISA Announces 2011 Student Competition

URISA is pleased to announce its 2011 Student Competition.  The 2011 Student Competition will consist of a two-tier approach that includes Papers and Posters. Submissions are due on or before June 6, 2011. For complete details: http://www.urisa.org/student_paper_competition

Monday, January 24th, 2011

NAVTEQ® Map Data Available in Caliper’s TransCAD® Transportation Planning Software

NAVTEQ announced today at the Transportation Research Board conference that Caliper Corporation is now providing NAVTEQ map data in its TransCAD® Transportation Planning Software. TransCAD, one of the most widely-used transportation planning software in North America, provides extensive transportation modeling and geographic information system (GIS) capabilities for transportation professionals.  By embedding NAVTEQ map data into TransCAD

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Blue Marble Seeking Software Developers for Testing of Beta Version of Java Coordinate Conversion Tool Kit

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce that GeoCalc Java is available for beta testing. GIS software developers will be able to incorporate Blue Marble GeoCalc libraries into their software in Java development environment. If you are interested in being a part of the testing process for this exciting new version of GeoCalc, please contact

Monday, January 24th, 2011

European Satellite Navigation Programs Galileo and EGNOS

The European Commission presented its midterm review on the development of Europe’s satellite navigation programs Galileo and EGNOS. Recent progress in the development of Galileo, including the signature of four major contracts and the testing of the first four operational satellites, means the satellite navigation system will deliver initial services in 2014. It is expected

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Getmapping’s Scottish Aerial Photography Gets the Flight Sim Treatment

Getmapping’s aerial photographic survey of Scotland is being compiled into a comprehensive set of terrain scenery by Horizon Simulation for the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, ‘Generation X’ edition. The first volume which complements scenery of the whole of England and Wales was the Western Isles. It has been closely followed by the Shetland and Orkney

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Introducing…Avia Motor Software

Avia Motor and Avia Sail are affordable and versatile Windows® software products that bring sophisticated instrumentation to the everyday power boater or sailor. Avia software receives data from onboard sensors via the industry standard NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000® protocols, and presents the data as crystal-clear analog and digital instruments on your Windows® PC, netbook or

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Ecoagriculture is the Key in Global Hunger Fight, reports Worldwatch

Instead of pitting nature against agriculture, harmonize the two: that’s the most important recommendation on fighting global hunger from this year’s State of the World report by the Worldwatch Institute. Expanding access to nutrition and food are in the spotlight in this year’s topical, forward-thinking and problem-oriented study. In 2010, Worldwatch examined issues related to sustainable

Friday, January 21st, 2011

ERDAS 11 World Tour Draws Crowd in India

ERDAS announces the launch of the 11 World Tour in the Asia Pacific region, hosting a customer event with over 400 participants in Hyderabad, India. As a corporate sponsor of the Geospatial World Forum, ERDAS hosted this event on January 17. The conference is being held January 18-21, 2011 at the Hyderabad Convention Centre. On