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Friday, December 4th, 2009

Galileo Satellite Platform Tests Under Way

The engineering model of the first Galileo satellites has completed platform integration tests at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is now undergoing functional testing. Delivery of the engineering model payload from Astrium UK is expected in December. Read More

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Autodesk Showcase Community Now on the AREA

Autodesk, Inc. announced that a new Autodesk Showcase visualization software community is now part of the AREA — Autodesk’s digital entertainment and visualization community website. The Showcase software community offers a blog, forum and product page, which includes videos, tutorials and a free download of the Showcase Viewer*. Showcase software users can join the community

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

GPSDifferential Module for MobileMapper 6 Enables DigiTerra

Magellan® Professional announces the availability of the MobileMapper 6 GPSDifferential module for DigiTerra Explorer 6 software application.  With the GPSDifferential module for the MobileMapper 6, sub-meter mapping is easy to achieve, even where real-time corrections are not available. The GPSDifferential module for the MobileMapper 6 is a software option that has been integrated into the

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

ESDIN promoted at the ICC 2009 in Chile

1Spatial, member of the ESDIN project consortium gave a presentation during the International Cartographic Conference 2009 in Chile, which took place from 15th – 21st November 2009. ESDIN project has been introduced within the presentation of Steven Ramage: ‘Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and regional competitivness’ Read More

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Space Imaging Middle East and European Space Imaging announce WorldView Global Alliance with DigitalGlobe

Space Imaging Middle East (SIME), along with European Space Imaging (EUSI) and DigitalGlobe, Inc., are pleased to announce the preview of the WorldView Global Alliance at the Dubai Airshow, November 15-19. Read More

Monday, November 16th, 2009

R.A. Smith National Plans Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Courses

R.A. Smith National (formerly R.A. Smith & Associates and its National Survey & Engineering Division) — civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, geographic information systems (GIS) and 3D visualization consultants — Brookfield, Wis., is accepting registrations for the following upcoming ESRIÒ-authorized GIS courses.

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Bentley’s Hevacomp Software for Building Energy Design, Analysis, and Simulation Leverages gbXML

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has added Green Building XML (gbXML) 0.37 schema support to its Hevacomp products for building energy design, analysis, and simulation. The Hevacomp software joins a growing

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

MTR Smart Grid Wireless on View at WATEC 2009

MTR Wireless Communications, the developer of Smart Grid AMR/AMI/Control solutions to both public and private Water, Electricity and Gas utility distribution grids, today announced that they will show case their Smart Grid technology at WATEC 2009, 17/19 Nov 2009, Tel Aviv Exhibition Center. Hall 11b Booth 23. MTR Smart Grid™ solution combines two-way wireless technology,

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Sustainable Freight Transport is Possible

Freight transport exposes many people to exhaust gas emissions and noise and contributes significantly to climate change. UBA’s “Strategy for Sustainable Freight Transport” shows that this can be changed. The report describes the past, present and future development of freight transport, identifies conflicts with environmental protection requirements and presents measures to reduce its environmental impacts.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Nature SDIplus Workshop – Hungary

The Nature-SDIplus is a Best Practice Network development project co-funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme. It is aimed at harmonizing EU national datasets on nature conservation, stimulating the community of stakeholders; sharing best practices, improving the exploitation and access to the datasets. In such a view, NATURE-SDIplus aims to support the implementation