Saturday, October 6th, 2007
1Spatial, in conjunction with Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland® (OSNI) are holding a half-day briefing that highlights the importance of managing spatial data quality whilst fully exploiting the use of the Northern Ireland Mapping Agreement (NIMA). The half-day briefing is ideal for those in the Public Sector who want to find out how to manage their
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The Mersea project includes demonstrations of the use of Mersea ocean forecast products in marine oil spill modelling and forecasting. A number of demonstrations will be performed during the Fall 2007. In September and October, there will be two deployments of oil-emulating drifters in the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of validating the forecasts from
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
During a visit with local students today, the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, unveiled the brand new 2007 wall map of Canada. The Minister hand-delivered the first map while speaking to a Grade 11 Global Studies class at Parklands School in his home riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. The new map is 25 percent
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Dave Lovell has been appointed as the new Executive Director of EuroGeographics. Dave is currently the Programme Manager at EuroGeographics, a post he has held for the last year, and will take up his new appointment immediately after the General Assembly in Dubrovnik. We congratulate Dave on his appointment and wish him every success for
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
NovAtel Inc. a precise positioning technology company, has achieved a Galileo program milestone through the award of a contract worth €6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the Ground Reception Chain (GRC) reference receiver for Galileo, Europe’s state-of-the-art Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). TAS-I, NovAtel and Space Engineering were
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
SWECO’s consultants in Norway will prepare a construction plan for the E6 motorway through Gudbrandsdalen, including a four kilometre tunnel. This is the first new tunnel project to be undertaken after the collapse of Norway’s Hanekleiv Tunnel last December. The assignment will be carried out on behalf of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and is
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Tackling the growing spatial information management market, earthmine will unveil its ground-breaking technology to collect, deliver and utilize accurate street-level three dimensional geospatial information for urban environments at the DEMOfall 07 Conference. earthmine co-founders, John Ristevski and Anthony Fassero, will lead the DEMO stage presentation on Tuesday, September 25, 2007. The company, founded in 2006,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
ESRI Geoinformatik, GmbH and Intermap Technologies Corp. are teaming up to enable Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users to gain access to mapping data, applications, and solutions based on Intermap’s highly-accurate 3D elevation data and ESRI’s GIS and Mapping software. The two companies have agreed to develop and introduce a series of unique products that leverage
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America’s Presentation Products Division, known for award-winning, high-quality presentation and display products, has introduced the HL650U, its newest SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 pixels) resolution high-brightness LCD projector, designed for applications requiring high, accurate details and vivid colors such as CAD/CAM, geographical and tactical mapping, medical imaging and virtual simulation. The HL650U blasts
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that its Haestad Methods product line has been selected as the No. 1 water resources modeling software in a national survey. The survey, commissioned by Bentley, was conducted across the readership of CE News’ Civil Connection, a leading civil engineering newsletter published by ZweigWhite. This follows on the heels of