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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

ScanEx TaskFlow Software for RS Data Flow Processing Automation

ScanEx specialists released a new version of ScanEx TaskFlow® application. It is intended for automation of any data flow processing, including RS data. The application enables to create and perform tasks of step-by-step batch processing of large data volumes using a random set of console programs. Execution of such a task allows to user to

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions: more than half way to the ’20 % target by 2020

The European Union’s greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory report, compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA), shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27’s emissions stood 11.3 % below their 1990 levels, while EU-15 achieved a reduction of 6.9 % compared to Kyoto base-year

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Costa Rica’s Earth University Aims To“Plant the Future”

In commemoration of EARTH’s twentieth Anniversary, EARTH University and its graduates, with the support of the Costa Rica Tourist Board (ICT), CNN and Cummins are organizing a simultaneous global tree planting on June 5, World Environment Day, called EARTH Plants the Future. Tree plantings have been organized by EARTH alumni in over 26 countries, and planting

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Bentley Integrates Civil Engineering and Stormwater Modeling Products to Improve Workflows

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the integration of its civil engineering design and stormwater modeling and analysis applications to further enhance workflows and facilitate collaboration. The applications include Bentley’s InRoads, GEOPAK, PowerCivil for North America, MXROAD, CivilStorm, StormCAD, and

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Spectacular Start to Getmapping’s Flying Season

Getmapping has made a spectacular start to its 2010 aerial imagery flying season, capturing over 25,000 square kilometres using both its established fleet of Vexel digital cameras and a new VisionMap A3 large format camera. By the end of May, Getmapping had completed its aerial survey of Wales, begun in 2009, completed the whole of

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

OSGIS 2010

The early bird registrations for the Second Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) conference  at University of Nottingham ends on 4th June 2010.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

NAVTEQ Map To Power Mobile Devices’ Telematics Platforms and Connected PNDs

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has announced that Mobile Devices has chosen to utilize NAVTEQ data globally in its line of dedicated and standardized platforms for fleet management and telematics applications.  Mobile Devices is using NAVTEQ maps for Europe,

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

NASA Takes to the Air With New ‘Earth Venture’ Research Projects

Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced today. The five competitively-selected proposals, including one from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are the first investigations in the new Venture-class series of low-to-moderate-cost projects established last year.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Australia – Potential Field Methods Prove Effective for Continental Margin Studies

Remote geophysical data acquisition tools, such as gravity and magnetic surveys, have proved very successful in mapping the underlying geology of the Australian continent. Similarly, these geophysical methods can also be applied in Australia’s offshore areas for mapping the continental margin using marine vessels (surface and submarine) and aircraft. The use of airborne magnetic surveys

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Leica FPES v10.1 Boosts Productivity and Efficiency in Flight Planning

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce a new version of its powerful Leica Flight Planning & Evaluation Software (FPES). Leica FPES v10.1 allows a fast and automatic load of DTM data with sophisticated computation capabilities. Beside many other enhancements Leica FPES v10.1 supports Windows OS including Windows 7, and a flexible data import and export