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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Canadian Police Organizations Turn to ESRI Canada for Enhanced Crime Intelligence

ESRI Canada announced the strong momentum for its CrimeAnalyst solution that provides advanced analysis capabilities for better crime intelligence.  More than a dozen police organizations across the country including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) and Hamilton Police Service (HPS) use CrimeAnalyst to conduct rapid analysis, explore crime incidents at

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Industry Thought Leaders Session to be Featured at GIS-Pro 2010

URISA is honored to welcome an esteemed group of industry thought leaders to participate in a panel discussion on Thursday, September 30, 2010 during GIS-Pro 2010: URISA’s 48th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals in Orlando. The moderated session will discuss such topics as: Where is the Industry going?; What are the next hot trends, issues,

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Announces the Opening of Five more “Leica Geosystems Solutions Centers”

Leica Geosystems has opened five locations in the Southwestern US where knowledgeable salespeople are available to help customers learn about the latest technology from Leica Geosystems and test-drive any of the current Leica Geosystems products. These state-of the-art factory retail facilities are designed to support the construction, surveying and engineering community throughout the Southwest. Learn

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

GAF: RapidEye’s Distributor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

RapidEye, announced today that GAF AG has signed a partnership agreement with RapidEye to be its data distributor inGermany, Austria and Switzerland. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of RapidEye commented, “With this partnership,we stand to benefit from GAF’s extensive experience in promoting and selling image data in this region. We anticipate GAF’s existing network of partners

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Second Call for 3rd GIT4NDM (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19-20 October, 2010)

Chiang Mai git4ndm congregation will provide an International forum to the professionals and researchers involved in application of Geoinformatics for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Preparedness such as Earthquake, Flood, Typhoon, Drought, Cyclone and Tsunami etc., The conference is also extended to have parallel track on Rehabilitation and Risk Management. Read More

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

New Catalogue Presents Best Practices in Sustainable Urban Development

“Urban sustainability – Learning from the best” is the title of a new catalogue of best practices produced by the European Commission on the basis of the 2010 and 2011 European Green Capital Awards. The aim of the catalogue is to share experiences and visions between European cities as well as inspire cities to introduce new

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Microsoft’s Vexcel Imaging GmbH Sells 30 UltraCam Systems

Microsoft’s photogrammetry division—Vexcel Imaging, GmbH—today reported an impressive 30 sales for its UltraCam digital aerial camera systems during the company’s 2010 fiscal year (July 2009 – June 2010). In addition, 11 camera upgrades were sold. Details of the sales are as follows: 1) Large-format cameras—UltraCamX, UltraCamXp and UltraCamXp Wide Angle—totaled 18 and 2) Photogrammetric medium-format cameras—UltraCamL and

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Velodyne Introduces HDL-32E LiDAR Sensor

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced the introduction of the HDL-32E to meet the demand for a smaller, lighter, and less expensive product for autonomous vehicle and mobile mapping applications.  The HDL-32E will be on display in booth 2416 at the AUVSI show, held August 24 – 26, 2010 at the Colorado Convention Center. The HDL-32E extends

Friday, August 20th, 2010

NOAA Researcher Wins ‘Equivalent’ of Nobel for Sustainable Development

NOAA Fisheries scientist Kenneth Sherman is one of two 2010 recipients of the Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development, considered the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Sherman, recognized for his work on large marine ecosystems, will share the award with Costa Rican activist Randall Arauz in a ceremony in Göteborg, Sweden on November 17. Read

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

SuperGeo Technologies Launch SuperWebGIS 3 Globally

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially release SuperWebGIS 3, the latest Internet Map Server Software, to assist enterprises in publishing dynamic maps and spatial data efficiently via the Web. Compared with the older version, SuperWebGIS 3 has highly scalable framework, complete GIS objects, and various types of website templates,