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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

New Mexico’s Second-Largest City Switches to MWH Soft Advanced Geospatial Technology

MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, today announced that the City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has chosen MWH Soft’s InfoWater Suite and InfoSewer Suite software to replace its existing modeling solution. The suites will be the foundation for developing a comprehensive ArcGIS-centric (ESRI, Redlands, CA) solution for

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Bentley Receives Stoomwezen Certification for AutoPIPE V8.6, 8.9, and 9.0

The latest version of AutoPIPE—the leading software for calculating piping code stresses, loads, and deflections under both static and dynamic loading conditions—has been recertified by the combined services of Lloyd’s Register Nederland B.V. and Stoomwezen in accordance with the Dutch Rules for Pressure Vessels (G0501). This allows clients involved on Stoomwezen certified projects to benefit

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Signs Agreement with Infoterra Ltd

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that Infoterra Ltd will be the authorized distributor of ERDAS IMAGINE® and Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) to customers in the UK and Ireland. A leading provider of geographic information products and services, Infoterra will expand its geospatial portfolio to handle these solutions effective November 1, 2007.“Infoterra is known throughout

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

ENVISAT Captures California Ablaze

This Envisat image captures fierce easterly desert winds blowing smoke from wildfires in Southern California. Gale-force winds have fed more than a dozen fires from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border since breaking out on Sunday, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of a quarter of a million people. Read More

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

GE ecomagination R&D Investment to Reach $1 Billion by Year End

Today GE announced that it will invest more than $1 billion on cleaner technology research and development (R&D) for 2007, drawing closer to its pledge to invest $1.5 billion annually on ecomagination R&D by 2010. One of four GE ecomagination commitments originally made in 2005, R&D investment has reached a total of more than $2.5

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

National Petroleum Construction Co. Chooses Intergraph as Preferred Engineering and Design Software

The National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC), the largest local engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has chosen Intergraph as its corporate-wide preferred engineering and design software provider for all onshore and offshore oil and gas design and construction projects. Read More

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

ecolect Launches

After two exciting years of planning, research, programming, and design, it’s time to show off what we’ve been working on! Combining ‘ecology’ and ‘intellect’, Ecolect was established to bring sustainable materials to the fingertips of designers worldwide. Read More

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Hewlett-Packard Shifts Strategy on Printers

When we think about printing, we normally call to mind printers. Vyomesh Joshi, on the other hand, has a vision for Version 2.0 of printing that has more to do with lifestyle than beige boxes. Joshi, known widely in the industry as VJ, is executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard’s printing and imaging division, a $26

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Authoring and Publishing Optimized ESRI Map Services

GIS training by a technical expert streamed directly to your desktop. Live Training Seminars are live, interactive, and free. Read More

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

NGA Aims to Get Maps in Fast Lane

GC News – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is creating a new data distribution system that will allow users worldwide to receive and accurately print maps via a $1.7 million contract with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Global Services for a demand-based geospatial intelligence (DBGI) pilot. The goal of DBGI is to furnish federal agencies with