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Monday, July 19th, 2010

Blood Railway Carries Off First Foster + Partners Prize for Sustainability and Infrastructure

Plans to connect inner London hospitals via underground ‘medi rail’ network centred on a major blood bank and medical transport hub have won the inaugural Foster + Partners Prize, presented to the Architecture Association School’s Diploma student whose portfolio best addresses the themes of sustainability and infrastructure. The new award, created this year, will be

Monday, July 19th, 2010

NGIS Australia Joins the Innovative Australian Defence Force RPDE Program

Leading spatial information and technology solutions provider, NGIS Australia, has become an associate member of the pioneering Rapid Prototyping, Development and Evaluation (RPDE) Program – a joint venture between the Australian Department of Defence and other industry partners. The RPDE program combines Defence Force knowledge and experience with key industry partner resources and expertise, in

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

CoreLogic to Deliver Online Access to Parcel Data via ArcGIS Online

CoreLogic announced that their ParcelPoint® parcel database will be available through ArcGIS Online, an Internet-based system for using geographic information. CoreLogic, an industry leader in spatial and natural hazard risk solutions, has converted digital and paper maps, as well as legal descriptions, from most of the nation’s counties into a single standardized spatial database called ParcelPoint.

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

EmerGeo Version 5.3 Announced to Enhance Multi-agency Interoperability

EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, is pleased to announce the availability of EmerGeo Version 5.3 in August 2010.  Building on the company’s disaster-proven crisis management technology and experience, EmerGeo 5.3 enhances its emergency mapping solution and Fusionpoint web portal application. EmerGeo’s software provides a

Friday, July 16th, 2010

New Features and Functionality in IDL 8.0

Please join us for this one hour webinar to learn about all of the new features and functionality available in the IDL 8.0 release. With the latest release you will find major IDL language enhancements that will streamline your analysis and application development tasks. You will also have access to an entirely new graphics system that is very powerful yet

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Users Drive Innovation in Satellite Navigation

The European Satellite Navigation Competition awards a 10,000 Euro prize for the best application ready to be tested in a Living Lab.How can citizens influence future technologies? How can companies access a larger or more varied market? How can researchers bring revolutionary technological breakthroughs closer to the ‘man on the street’? – In a Living

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Earth from Space: Bloom-filled Baltic

This Envisat image captures blue-green algae blooms filling the Baltic Sea, which is roughly 1600 km long, 190 km wide and has a surface area of about 377 000 sq km. Read More

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Original Accessories – a Transparent Choice for Reliable and Secure Measurement Data

Accessories are an integral part of modern measurement systems. Leica Geosystems has modernized and updated supportive information of its accessories basket for TPS and GNSS measurement systems. The customers’ benefit is a transparent choice of high quality accessories that meet their individual requirements. Read More  

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The Power of Business Analyst Online Now Available on the iPhone

The new, free BAO for iOS app, available for download from the Apple app store, provides access to 2010 demographic and business data and analysis from Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) on the go. BAO delivers powerful market analyses through a Web browser. Users generate on-demand reports and maps to get a detailed, comprehensive view

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

GeoEye Announces NextView Service Level Agreement Extension

GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has exercised the second of its monthly options to extend its Service Level Agreement with GeoEye. This option becomes effective Aug. 1, 2010, and runs through Aug. 31, 2010. This option is the