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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Vehicle Navigation System Testing now Supported by IFEN’s GNSS RF Navigation Constellation Simulator

IFEN GmbH today announces that its GNSS RF navigation constellation simulator NavX®-NCS now supports also the emulation of various vehicle  motion sensors for testing of today’s multi-sensor vehicle navigation systems. Read More

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

John Deere Launches New Precision Technologies

John Deere has launched several new precision ag technologies including a new telematics system, JDLink, GreenStar 3 family of displays, the StarFire 3000 GNSS Receiver, iGrade, that helps producers better manage surface water movement, and iSteer, that improves implement guidance in a grower’s field. “The GreenStar 3 and the new GreenStar 3 2630 display is the

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Esri Releases the Open GeoServices REST Specification

At the FOSS4G Conference in Barcelona, Spain, today, Esri announced the release of the GeoServices REST Specification. This open specification provides a standard way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. The specification has been opened such that developers can expose the GeoServices API request structure

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Climate and Forecast Data Encoding Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) members are seeking comments on OGC candidate standards Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard – NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) can be used to communicate and store many kinds of multidimensional data, although it was originally

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

PCI Geomatics to Represent Canada at the Rio Oil and Gas Expo in Brazil

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, is proud to announce its participation in the Canadian Pavilion at the upcoming Rio Oil and Gas Expo taking place September 13-19 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The Rio Oil and Gas Expo is the largest event of its type in Latin America with

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

RapidEye Exhibits With BEO and Santiago & Cintra At INTERGEO 2010

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that it will exhibit at this year’s INTERGEO, sharing a booth with two of its global distributors, BEO from China, and Santiago & Cintra Consultoria from Brazil. INTERGEO, the world’s largest event and communication platform

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Development of the Technical Components of the INSPIRE Geo-portal at European Union Level

The objective of this procurement is the development of the operational version of the Inspire geo-portal and in particular: Design and implement a Web-based geo-portal: — providing a specific entry point to and offering client access functionality to Inspire network services from the EU Member States with a focus on discovery and view services, — that goes

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Updates its Zeno Series of GNSS/GIS Products

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce Leica Zeno Office v1.1 and Zeno Field v1.1 software updates for the Zeno series of GNSS/GIS products. The revolutionary Leica Zeno GIS offers professionals and newcomers around the globe a multi-functional and easy-to-use GNSS/GIS solution with superior performance. Leica Zeno GIS provides a unique one-click automated workflow between field

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Standard for Identifying Countries in Oceanographic Data Exchange

The value of standards is clearly demonstrable; we need only look to the manufacturing sector to see their value. In oceanography, there have been many discussions and solutions for processing data and information. Many useful ideas, each a solution to an immediate problem, have been developed and put into practice, but there have been few

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Revised UK GEMINI v2.1

Version 2.1 of UK GEMINI2 includes changes to take into account the latest version of the INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules Technical Guidelines, as well as experience of use of the earlier version of UK GEMINI2. UK GEMINI specifies a core set of metadata elements for use in a geospatial discovery metadata service. The first version GEMINI,