Geospatial News

Thursday, September 9, 2010

• ISPRS Celebrates it First 100 Years
  approved a new Strategic Plan for the Society for the coming decades, which recognizes the rapid developments in geospatial technologies and the need to adapt to these changes; witnessed three presentations on: the past history of ISPRS; the new
  
• Q&A: Gunnar Hellekson on open source adoption in government
  It's certainly true for government agencies that have a specific open source project, for example a certain geospatial program, certainly if you have a real interest in using open source software and there is no commercially available support for it,
  
• King Faisal Hospital Shares Saudi Disease Information
  and dissemination using SuperWEB and public access and transparency using SuperVIEW. Integration with ESRI ArcGIS 10 will provide geospatial analysis and public mapping visualization for what will be a world-class registry project. Al Moammar Information
  
• Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Demonstrate Industry-Leading Data as a Service Platform at AGI 2010
  DaaS offering available, and provides cloud-based access to a comprehensive data catalogue that includes both free and fee-based geospatial data from PBBI, as well as content from third-party data providers.
  
• Water ways
  growing, if not the fastest growing part of our water business," says Richard Zambuni, global marketing director, geospatial, at Bentley. "And the reason the Middle East is so important is for a syndrome of issues: you've got very fast population growth,
  
• Drive offers immediate benefits for utility fleets
  vehicle. Additionally, fuel consumption is even captured geospatially, a method for which Zonar has a patent pending. Automatic, geospatial tracking of fuel usage including off-road fuel consumption makes fuel tax reporting and filing easy, accurate and
  
• Northrop Grumman Continues Geospatial Services For Agriculture Dept.
  Extract not available.
  
• Azavea Recognized on the 2010 Inc. Magazine's 500|5000 List for the Second Year in a Row
  of this list of thriving companies. Our firm was founded on the idea that geography matters, and that geospatial software technologies can help build thriving communities. We serve governments, non-profit organizations and university researchers by
  
• Asia Pacific role for new 1Spatial MD
  base�, said Nic Snape, CEO of 1Spatial. Perkins has over 25 years� experience and extensive knowledge of the geospatial industry. Prior to his current appointment he held various executive management positions with leading organisations in the
  

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

• The Black Chamber
  Other intelligence community members include the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial � Intelligence Agency (NGIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Army Intelligence, and the Air
  
• Merrick & Company Wins National Ethics Award
  discriminatory behavior. Demonstrated commitment to community. Merrick & Company is a $100 million engineering, architecture, design-build, surveying, and geospatial solutions firm, serving domestic and international clients in the energy, security, life
  
• C. Dana Tomlin to be Inducted into URISA�s GIS Hall of Fame
  established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual�s or an organization�s record of contribution to the advancement of the
  
• MAPPS Announces Geospatial Excellence Awards Judges
  A panel of five independent judges will evaluate projects submitted in the MAPPS 2010 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition. The panel will be chaired by Robert Burtch, professor in the Surveying Engineering Program at Ferris
  
• Esri Releases the Open GeoServices REST Specification
  encapsulates a strong platform that allows developers to create services that support rich GIS Web applications and allows geospatial services to be embedded into anything on the Web, including commercial off-the-shelf products, open source, and even
  
• Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Demonstrate at AGI 2010
  a location-based DaaS offering, provides cloud-based access to a comprehensive data catalog that includes both free and fee-based geospatial data from PBBI, as well as content from third-party data providers. The PBBI stand at AGI will feature an
  
• iSMART GIS Supports Access to OS OnDemand Services
  variety of applications. OS OnDemand is based on open standards, eliminating specialist requirements, and therefore enabling all Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web applications to consume OS OnDemand. eSpatial�s iSMART now offers support
  
• NoSQL CouchDB founder turns to phone and cloud services
  to replicate from your device later. The Couch system has been updated for mobile with the addition of geospatial and indexing APIs and a reduction in the memory used at runtime from 15MB to 5MB, Katz claimed. As ever with NoSQL, the real hurdle is going
  
• City of Burbank Deploys GO! Sync Mobile GIS
  s intuitive mapping software seamlessly integrates with the city's enterprise geographic information system (GIS) providing mission critical geospatial data to the department's field personnel. The City of Burbank, population approximately 110,000, built
  
• GRASS GIS 6.4.0 Released This Week
  Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) providing powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization
  
• Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Selected to Launch Geoeye-2 Earth-Imaging Satellite
  who need to place their satellites in a similar orbit.' GeoEye, a key provider of satellite imagery and geospatial information, announced last month winning a 10-year, $3.8-billion contract award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for
  
• Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit
  12, 2007) Oracle Unveils Oracle Retail Returns Management (January 15, 2007) Autodesk Joins with Oracle to Provide Integrated Geospatial Solutions (January 3, 2007) Oracle On Demand Surpasses 1.7 Million User Milestone (November 17, 2006) Oracle Unveils
  
• Lockheed Martin & Geoeye-2 Satellite
  who need to place their satellites in a similar orbit. GeoEye, a key provider of satellite imagery and geospatial information, announced last month winning a 10-year, $3.8-billion contract award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for
  
• OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Climate and Forecast Data Encoding Standards
  Posted by mincho2008 Wednesday, 08 September 2010 The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC�) members are seeking comments on OGC candidate standards Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard -
  
• Northrop Grumman to Provide Geospatial Services for the Department of Agriculture
  Extract not available.
  
• C. Dana Tomlin to be Inducted into URISA's GIS Hall of Fame
  established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community
  
• Northrop Grumman to Provide Geospatial Services for Department of Agriculture
  the continental United States. Northrop Grumman's teammates include Digital Aerial Solutions, LLC, Tampa, Fla. and Pixxures, Inc, Geospatial Division of XeDAR Corporation, Arvada, Colo. Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company
  
• GeoEye Named Earth Observation Operator of the Year / Euroconsult Award Highlights Company's Vision, Growth and Innovation
  DULLES, Va., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoEye, Inc. , a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today it has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult. The award was
  
• GeoEye Named Earth Observation Operator of the Year
  leading international information services company serving government and commercial markets. The Company is recognized as one of the geospatial industry's imagery experts, delivering exceptional quality imagery products, services and solutions to
  
• Euroconsult Honors Outstanding Achievement with 7th Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Management
  Read More About: remote sensing & image processing, satellite image, satellite imagery, gis, geospatial technology, satellite navigation Euroconsult, the leading global research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite sector, today announced the
  
• Infotech Hires Greg Oaten as Strategy Advisor for Utilities
  sets of Energy Australia�s network and retail operations. Greg has also served as the President of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) Australia & New Zealand in 2009 and as a director for five years. Greg can be reached at:
  

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