Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Entrepreneurs have the chance to win prizes totalling a million euros in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA will award a special prize of €10 000 for the best idea and support the business start up at one of its four incubation centres. Now in its seventh year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC)
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, today announced the immediate availability of its Web-based application that produces NEXTMap Online Terrain Profiles (OTPs) for microwave link planning. The application was designed specifically to support microwave tower placement and network expansion by delivering precise terrain profiles (including 3D terrain data and profile
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2010Annual Conference was held April 26-30 at the Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego, California with many and varied conference activities and an attendance of nearly 1,300. This year’s conference theme of Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Technologies was carried throughout and particularly
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Lenel Systems International, the world’s number one provider of electronic access control, has certified Intergraph®’s security integration software as a member of the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program. The certification confirms the seamless interoperability between Lenel’s OnGuard access system and Intergraph®’s security integration software. Together, these leading security access and system integration solutions offer operators comprehensive
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
In this short article, I’d like to present the view from a more ‘bottom up’ perspective. The one thing the initiatives listed above have in common is that they are all national and international ‘top down’ approaches. One of the challenges they are likely to find is that ‘the devil is in the detail’ as
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Detailed survey data from SeaZone is assisting the European Marine Energy Centre Ltd (EMEC) in expanding the services it offers. EMEC provides developers with the opportunity to test full scale grid connected prototype devices in unrivalled wave and tidal conditions. EMEC is a global leader in renewable energy research. It is based in Stromness,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The GMES and Africa Process, launched in December 2007 by European and African main stakeholders, aims at developing the GMES and Africa Action Plan and submitting it for adoption at the next Africa-EU Summit which will be held in Libya by the end of 2010. This commitment is expressed in the Lisbon Declaration on GMES
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Recently the construction the German radar satellite TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) was complete and the satellite has been qualified for space operations during a recent series of tests. TanDEM-X is the ‘twin’ satellite of the almost identical TerraSAR-X satellite (operational since 2007), both of them have been implemented jointly by the German
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
ESRI is providing a number of support activities for the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Working closely with dozens of agencies and the geographic information system (GIS) community, ESRI has deployed its disaster response team to provide assistance to users in local, state, and federal government agencies as well as the private sector.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
AeroPrecisa Limited has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp medium-format camera system, including an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and camera mount. The entire deal, which included the purchase of an airplane, was brokered by Vexcel Imaging reseller GIS/Transport, Ltd., based in Beirut, Lebanon. ”AeroPrecisa felt the time was right
