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Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Landis+Gyr Chosen To Build World’s Largest Smart Grid in China

Landis+Gyr, the world’s largest smart meter solutions provider, today announced it has been selected by the State Grid Corporation of China, the country’s leading power grid operator, to supply over 10,000 commercial and industrial advanced electricity meters for upcoming deployment in six provinces.Landis+Gyr, which operates manufacturing and research and development facilities in China with more

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

GI_Forum 2011: Final Call for Papers

The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 5-8, 2011, at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in GIScience and Technology. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Bertrand Sicot Named CEO of Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. named Executive Vice President of Sales, Bertrand Sicot, its new CEO. Former CEO, Jeff Ray, has been promoted into a leadership role at Dassault Systèmes (DS) of France.  Bertrand Sicot joined DS SolidWorks as Europe’s “second employee” in 1997 and has consistently improved worldwide distribution performance, revenue, profit, and global market

Friday, January 7th, 2011

HOK Called on to Design the Urban Living Laboratory

As part of a unique public-private partnership, HOK is designing a new type of sustainable research development intended to leave a lasting legacy. HOK is working with Arlington-based Realty Appreciation Ltd. and the Texas A&M University System to design the Urban Living Laboratory, a 73-acre, 1.2 million-sq.-ft. mixed-use development that sits on a 240-acre parcel

Friday, January 7th, 2011

GeoEye Wins Contract to Build Vessel Monitoring System for Republic of Maldives

GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today it has won a contract from the Republic of the Maldives for a vessel monitoring system that is being developed for fisheries management and safety. This information services project expands GeoEye’s expertise and presence in location-based information products and

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Dassault Systèmes Promotes Innovation as Lead Sponsor of EyesOn Design Competition

Dassault Systèmes announced that it is the lead sponsor of the sixth annual EyesOn Design Awards competition to be held on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Additionally, Dassault Systèmes vice president of Design Experience and head of the company’s Design Studio, Anne Asensio, will be serving her

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Dassault Systèmes Reinforces its Field Operations: Jeff Ray Promoted to Executive Vice President, Geographic Operations

Dassault Systèmes  announce the appointment of Jeff Ray as Executive Vice President, Geographic Operations, and member of the Dassault Systèmes executive committee. In this newly created position, Ray will oversee the company’s geographies in order to empower the Dassault Systèmes local teams to serve customers’ and partners’ growing needs and fully exploit the market growth

Friday, January 7th, 2011

OBIS Allows Users to Search Marine Species Datasets from All of the World’s Oceans

With our evolving OBIS database repository, users can identify biodiversity hotspots and large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and plot species’ locations with temperature, salinity, and depth. To search the database, please select the “Search Data” option in the toolbar above. If you want to see overview maps of OBIS content and

Friday, January 7th, 2011

The European Marine Gazetteer

One of the important elements of our biogeographical information system is a standard list of geographical names (gazetteer). The MarBEF data management team has developed this geographical database and as new datasets and species lists come in, the additional geographical names are entered and matched within a hierarchical structure of place names. Read More

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. Trades Up to UltraCamXp

Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to trade in two UltraCamL cameras in exchange for one UltraCamXp camera system. Aero-Photo (1961) Inc. will use the new UltraCamXp primarily for projects involving engineering, forestry, mapping, and corridors that require high precision and accuracy. The company operates in North, Central and