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Friday, October 8th, 2010

Intermap Technologies Appoints Interim Chief Financial Officer

-Intermap Technologies today announced the appointment of Nigel Jackson, to the position of interim chief financial officer, effective October 4, 2010. Mr. Jackson replaces outgoing vice president and CFO, Brian Musfeldt, who remains employed with the Company until November 1, 2010. Mr. Jackson previously served as Intermap’s vice president finance and secretary from 1996 to 2003.

Friday, October 8th, 2010

OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey to Keynote at 20th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium Conference

OpenGeo today announced that OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey will be keynoting the Minnesota GIS/LIS conference at the Duluth Convention Center next week. Ramsey’s keynote, titled “Be Not Afraid: A Managers Field Guide to Life in an Open Source World” will be presented 8:30 on Thursday, October 14. In addition, Mr. Ramsey will be presenting two workshops

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Esri Press Releases GIS Tutorial Series for ArcGIS 10

Esri Press has updated its popular GIS Tutorial 1 and GIS Tutorial 2 workbooks for compatibility with ArcGIS 10. The new GIS Tutorial 3 completes this comprehensive series. GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook by Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland provides an introduction to geographic information system (GIS) concepts that is easy to understand. The

Friday, October 8th, 2010

VisionMap Announces A3 color- IR Digital Camera Availability

VisionMap Ltd announced today the availability of its newest product, the A3 CIR large format digital camera. A3 CIR (color-IR) provides near-infrared imagery (NIR) in combination with high resolution color imagery. The new product leverages A3’s well known superior collection efficiency as well as the complimentary fully automated workflow provided by the A3 Processing System. In

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Trimble Releases Next Generation High Accuracy Real-Time GNSS Receiver for Mapping and GIS Applications

Trimble introduced its next generation Trimble® GPS Pathfinder® ProXRT receiver, a versatile decimeter receiver combining dual-frequency GPS with Trimble H-Star™ technology, along with optional OmniSTAR and GLONASS support. In addition, the GPS Patinder ProXRT receiver is now capable of tracking Galileo test satellites for signal evaluation and test purposes. The announcement was made today at INTERGEO

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Meet the European Green Capitals for 2012 and 2013

The European Green Capital Conference, which will be held on 20-22 October, will gather decision makers from ambitious European cities and interested cities from around the world who wish to discuss the challenges facing urban sustainability in both a European and global context. The Conference is being held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Stockholm

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter for 3ds Max Released

e-on software, the leader in Digital Nature solutions today announced the immediate availability of a free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter, the company’s instancing plugin for the mental ray™ and V-Ray™ renderers for 3DS Max. Carbon Scatter is the most simple and straightforward solution for creating complex and detailed populations using the native instancing technologies of

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Sochi Olympics Sites on Satellite Images

Highly detailed space imagery is actively applied for monitoring of construction activities of the sites related to the Sochi Olympic Games. Analysis of multi-temporal satellite data enables to assess the dynamics of erection of the Olympic buildings in different parts of the Sochi town. In all, there will be over 200 new installations constructed by

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Expansion of Australian Contaminated Site Legislation

The criteria for assessing contaminated land are going to be extended and made more comprehensive from next year. If you own or manage contaminated land, you need to read this article. Site assessments of confirmed and suspected contaminated land in NSW must follow the National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995 (the NEPC Act). This

Friday, October 8th, 2010

ISRO and CNES to Launch SARAL in 2011

SARAL is a satellite that can be used to monitor the level of sea water. It is jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French National Space Agency (CNES). The satellite will carry a Ka-band radar altimeter, AltiKa, and a data collection system, ARGOS. ISRO is responsible for building as well