Friday, August 31st, 2007
E.S.I. Environmental Sensors Inc. (“ESI”, the “Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of a non- brokered private placement of 7,500,000 units (“Units”) at $0.40 per Unit to raise gross proceeds of up to $3,000,000CAD. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one common share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will be
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Leica Geosystems announces the further continuation of its successful ATHENA Program a formalized purchase scheme designed to help Universities, Research Organisations and UNAVCO members to better facilitate the use of GNSS Reference Station and Structural Monitoring technology for both teaching and scientific research purposes.
Friday, August 31st, 2007
This summer looks set to have been the wettest since UK rainfall records began in 1914, Met Office figures revealed today. Provisional rainfall figures (up to 28 August) show that the UK as a whole had 358.5 mm of rain, just beating the previous record of 358.4 mm in 1956. However, since it is such a narrow
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
With the recent acquisition of Earth Resource Mapping (ER Mapper), Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is pleased to announce that Guy Perkins, former CEO, will join the executive management team as Vice President, Global Services. The acquisition further enhances Leica Geosystems’ enterprise delivery capabilities with geospatial image processing tools for preparing, managing, compressing and deploying imagery.
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The following products from the ArcFM™ UT product family will be released for delivery (as from build 316), based on ArcGIS 9.2: ArcFM UT Editor 9.2.0 ArcFM UT Alpha 9.2.0 ArcFM UT Viewer 9.2.0 ArcFM UT Base 9.2.0 ArcFM UT is a GIS solution for cross-sector use in utilities, which is able to work with
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The European Commission launched a call for tender for a study on modelling work in the field of agriculture. The Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) has been using the European Simulation Model (ESIM) as a tool for economic analyses. It is a partial equilibrium model which represents the agricultural sectors of
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Two of the outdoor industry’s leaders in mapping and navigation, Magellan and National Geographic, today announced an alliance that will make National Geographic’s award-winning, full-color topography maps fully compatible with handheld GPS receivers for the first time. Beginning this fall, Magellan will become the first GPS manufacturer to offer full, onscreen compatibility, usage and display
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
A new Mobile GIS field software program — TopPAD 7.0.1 – from Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) allows users to take GIS layers into the field for verification and update. When installed on Topcon’s hand-held GMS-2 or a Topcon field controller, TopPAD can collect and update position and attribute information using customized forms.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Surveyors and cadastral land record managers will start learning to work with the new Cadastral Editor technology in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 during a complimentary Web seminar in September. Introduction to the Cadastral Editor in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 will air on ESRI’s Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/lts on September 13, 2007, at
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
FORBES – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved the OpenGIS(R) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Implementation Specification (a profile of the Web Map Service) and the related OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification. The OpenGIS(R) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification defines an encoding that extends
