Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
PR — Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began producing a series of geographic information system (GIS)-based maps of the damaged agricultural areas to accompany its commodity
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
PR — James W. Sewall Company is pleased to announce the hire of GIS consultant Robert S. Berardo as the company’s Solutions Manager for municipal and privately owned utilities in the Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Berardo will drive the company’s business development in the utilities industry and provide GIS consulting services to Sewall industry clients in
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
PR — ILV-Fernerkundung, a leading provider of aerial surveying and remote sensing in Germany and throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has acquired its second Intergraph® Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC®) to meet increased demand for high resolution aerial imagery.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
PR — ERDAS IMAGINE is the industry’s leading and most complete collection of software tools designed to manipulate, process and understand imagery. This webinar will demonstrate how to more efficiently display, pan, zoom and edit vectors with ERDAS IMAGINE 9.3. Additionally, this webinar will also highlight Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Coverage Services (WCS)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — At a joint press conference, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Bentley Systems, Incorporated, two of the leading providers of design and infrastructure software, today announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced it will be working with the city of Salzburg, Austria, as the first pilot city in Autodesk’s new Digital Cities initiative. The announcement was made with the Mayor of Salzburg at the AGIT 2008 conference in Salzburg.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced an exclusive agreement with G-VR Limited, a London-based producer of three-dimensional digital models, to produce optimized triangulated irregular network (TIN) models created from Intermap’s digital terrain elevation data.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) announced that a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 2 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) has been issued by the GEO (Group on Earth Observations).
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — TerraGo® Technologies, the visionary provider of tools, technology and know-how for building collaborative geospatial applications (GeoApps), announced today that it has signed an Alliance Agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated. As part of the agreement, Adobe will provide support for TerraGo’s GeoPDF® in the new Adobe Acrobat® 9 software. In addition, TerraGo will fully
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
PR — Applanix introduced today a dual camera version of its Digital Sensor System (DSS™) 439 RapidOrtho™ medium format airborne mapping system that produces 4-band ortho-imagery in a single pass. With all the features and benefits of the established DSS 439 RapidOrtho Solution, the DSS 439 RapidOrtho DualCam adds a second DSS camera with a
