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Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Ian Dowman Retirement Symposium

Professor Ian Dowman retired from UCL as a full time Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2009. To mark 40 years of teaching and research at UCL the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering will host a seminar with international speakers on Monday 28th June, followed by a reception. The topic of the

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Residential Solar Power Now Available with the Click of a Mouse in Arizona

Solar energy is coming to the Valley in a whole new way for homeowners looking to save money on their electricity bills. Today, getting a solar power system for the home is just about as easy as purchasing a book on Amazon, and is more affordable than ever before. Sungevity, the Oakland-based company that’s behind

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Satellite Navigation System Powered by Wind River Achieves Safety-Critical Certification from ESA

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that VxWorks has been chosen to run Logica’s Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). The IPF, developed and delivered by Logica, is the crucial element that validates the information broadcast by the satellites to safety

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Onset Announces Energy and Environmental Monitoring Product Catalog

Onset announced the availability of the company’s new Energy and Environmental Monitoring Product Catalog. The 75-page catalog provides product descriptions, technical specifications, and pricing for the company’s full line of HOBO® data logging solutions used in energy management, field research, and water resources management. This includes stand-alone data loggers, web-based data logging systems, and wireless

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Leica Geosystems’ Viva System Delivers Outstanding Performance in Harsh Winter Survey of Cumberland Trail Expansion

In Winter, 2010, Leica’s Viva GNSS receivers and integrated surveying system played key roles in a boundary survey that added a lengthy section to Tennessee’s nearly-finished Cumberland Trail. Working in extremely harsh winter conditions-during the 11 weeks of the survey, average daytime temperatures were below freezing, and surveyors endured more than 60 inches of snow

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Martin Ehrhardt Joins ERDAS as Vice President, EMEA

ERDAS Inc. is pleased to announce that Martin Ehrhardt recently joined the management team as Vice President, EMEA, where he will lead the sales staff and overall business operation of ERDAS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ehrhardt comes to ERDAS from Definiens in Munich where he has served in executive roles since January

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

1Spatial to Showcase Technical Guidance for Transformation Network Services at INSPIRE Conference

1Spatial is pleased to announce their participation in the European Commission’s INSPIRE Conference in Kraków, Poland from 22nd – 25th June 2010. The INSPIRE Conference, formerly the EC-GIS Conference, organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a forum for sharing information and experiences related to the implementation of INSPIRE and the development

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Shaanxi Institute of Surveying and Mapping of Land and ESRI Canada to Provide Consulting Services for China’s Sichuan Urban Development Project

Shaanxi Institute of Surveying and Mapping of Land (SISML) and ESRI Canada today announced that the companies have won a bid to provide consulting services on the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to support China’s Sichuan Urban Development Project.  Funded through a loan from the World Bank, the project will support institutional development and

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Regulation on the GMES Programme and Its Initial Operations 2011-2013

The European Parliament’s final draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on GMES programme and its initial operations 2011-2013 was unanimously approved by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) on 11 May 2010. In this approved report, representing the achievement of extensive discussions between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers,MEPs included a

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

2nd Symposium on Earth Observation Business

After last year’s success, we are pleased to announce the 2nd Symposium on Earth Observation Business. The event will take place once again in synergy with the World Satellite Business Week, organised by Euroconsult. To cover the many areas of discussion in this dynamic segment of the satellite sector, the symposium has been extended to nearly