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Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Digital Map Products Announces ParcelStream Update and Expansion Plans

Digital Map Products (DMP), a leading provider of cloud-based spatial technology solutions, today announced an extensive update of the parcel boundary data available through ParcelStream™ and the company’s commitment to expanding its parcel boundary data coverage.  Further, Digital Map Products sees demand for parcel boundary data continuing to grow as more applications incorporate interactive mapping

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

RIB iTWO – Time for Innovative Technologies in Construction

Model-based working is becoming an increasingly popular trend in the German construction industry. There is a growing demand among Germany’s leading construction companies for end-to-end process-oriented solutions that support a model-based work method. Digital engineering and construction is gaining more and more relevance, particularly on the international market. Recognising this trend, Bilfinger Berger Nigeria has

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Trimble and Hilti Form Joint Venture for the Building Construction Market

Trimble and the Hilti Group announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement to form Intelligent Construction Tools, LLC. The joint venture, 50 percent owned by Trimble and 50 percent owned by Hilti, will focus on leveraging technologies from both companies to develop measuring solutions for the building construction trades. Partnering since 2002, the Hilti

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Trimble Acquires Cengea to Expand its Forestry Solutions

Trimble announced today it has acquired privately-held Cengea Solutions Inc., based in British Columbia. Cengea is a leading provider of spatially-enabled business operations and supply chain management software for the forestry, agriculture and natural resource industries. The acquisition is part of Trimble’s strategic initiative to bring productivity solutions to the forestry and other industries. Financial

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Webinar on UltraMap 2.1

Join leaders from the Microsoft photogrammetry team—Vexcel Imaging, GmbH—in this 40 minute webinar for an opportunity to see the newest release of its photogrammetric workflow software, UltraMap 2.1. Recently announced, UltraMap 2.1 continues to provide a flexible and scalable distributed system for managing and processing vast amounts of UltraCam data and now includes a set

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Greece: Free Geospatial Data Available Online

The geodata.gov.gr website constitutes the first governmental attempt to make the geospatial data of the wider public administration sector available online and free-of-charge for all citizens. The website has been piloted since 21 July 2010 and has been regularly updated. As stated on the homepage of the website, the public administration data has been produced and/or

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

25% Discount on IDRISI Taiga

Although IDRISI is our flagship product, we also offer additional resources that complement its use and help you maximize the full potential of the software.

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

ERDAS and Infoterra GmbH Bring TerraSAR-X Data and Solutions to Geospatial Community

ERDAS announces that it will collaborate with Infoterra GmbH, a leading provider of radar satellite data and services and exclusive holder of commercial exploitation rights to TerraSAR-X data.  Together, they will develop operational applications for TerraSAR-X radar satellite imagery and strengthen the knowledge of SAR data analysis within the user community. In recent years, the use

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Virtual City Ltd Receives USD 1 million in Nokia’s Growth Economy Venture Challenge

Today at the Nokia Developer Summit, Nokia was proud to announce Virtual City Ltd, a home-grown Kenyan company, as the winner of the Growth Economy Venture Challenge. A panel of experts judged their submission – Mobile Distributor Solution, which supports small and micro enterprises in emerging markets – to be the worthy winner. John Waibochi

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Optech and DiMAC Exhibit Jointly at INTERGEO 2010

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar survey instruments, is pleased to announce that it will share a booth at INTERGEO 2010 with DiMAC sprl. Optech recently acquired theoperations and assets of this innovative digital aerial camera company, inventor of the patented DiMAC True Forward MotionCompensation technology. The clear technology direction in airborne remote sensing