Written by Intergraph Friday, 27 January 2012 09:12
Intergraph and ERDAS are two well known brands in the geospatial industry. Recently Hexagon AB purchased Intergraph for $2.1B USD, effectively bringing GeoMedia GIS software into the wider Hexagon domain - filling a large hole across the spatial capabilities of that company. However, linking that GIS capability into a useful product was not immediately clear, nor visible. Recently ERDAS became a brand of Intergraph, thereby merging strengths while filling the missing void. This convergence now places another major GIS product into the marketplace - one with strong image analysis capabilities. Read more... Add new comment
Written by Jeff Thurston Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
The issue of open data, accessible and available, has long been source of discussion for many participants involved in the geomatics and geospatial industry. There are many reasons for data being confined including data formats, policy, lack of resources, inability among them. But culture also plays an important role, and at a time when growth, jobs and economic efficiency are high on the agenda, it makes good 'common and business sense' to have more people, not less, developing and innovating on geospatial data.
Written by Admin Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
The U.S.-based Urban and Regional Information System Association (URISA) has been coordinating global volunteer mapping projects since 2003. To date there have been 80 missions with nearly 250 volunteers deployed on such projects as disaster response, GPS data collection, developing hydrology data, analyzing imagery, and creating base maps, among other activities. Currently, 25 GISCorps volunteers have been deployed to 9 new missions in 7 countries.
Written by Matt Ball Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
There are many aerial mapping applications where the cost of an aircraft, and the small land size of a project, make hiring an aerial mapping firm impractical. The view from above is a valuable input however, and small radio controlled aircraft that carry high-resolution cameras and GPS receivers are increasingly finding their way into the surveyor's tool kit. The capable aerial imagery platform, with its low weight and low operational costs, is set to provide entirely new perspectives about changes in the landscape.
Written by Matt Ball Friday, 20 January 2012 06:00
Large volumes of data are being generated through sensors and the use of more and more computing and monitoring devices. The challenges of big data is that with larger datasets it become more difficult to catalog, store, search, share and analyze all of the information that we are collecting. With the world’s data more than doubling every two years, the issues aren’t trivial, but fortunately our computing capacity has been keeping up, and approaches to log and simplify all the data inputs are being worked out, with cloud computing providing much-needed capacity.
Written by Jeff Thurston Friday, 20 January 2012 05:00
This past week saw Apple announce a new initiative that would bring the iBook more closely to the world of education and student use. At the same time, the company announced a new iTunes App that would enable users to directly interact with iPods, iPads and iMacs to develop and collaborate more closely. The interactive capabilities, ease of collaboration and creation of educational materials could hold great promise for the geospatial and geomatic audience, particularly students.
Written by Admin Thursday, 19 January 2012 23:30
Fugro, a global geospatial and geoscience services company trading on Euronext Amsterdam, took the opportunity at the start of the year to reflect on the turbulence of 2011 as well as their contiued growth. The company achieved their 2.5 billion Euro sales target and net profit of 260 million Euro that they forecast, and the strength of their Survey and Geoscience divisions led the way, with a 10% increase over 2010 for both divisions. In a New Year's speech given by company president Mr. Wester, he recounted how all of the major geopolitical events of the past year all had an impact on business.
Written by Jeff Thurston Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:42
Topographic data is an important piece when it comes to the design process. Very places on the planet are completely flat. Housing, roadways, utilities, pipelines and many other features are oriented on the landscape with respect to topography. Even offshore infrastructure such as subsea telecommunications, oil wells and fisheries respect changing topography. While construction phases often include provision for topography, more recently we see modeling and and visualisation projects inserting topographic data of higher resolution to drive improved results and to provide greater realism.
Written by Matt Ball Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:04
Leading off this new year is game-changing news that Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software are going to align to deliver infrastructure-oriented tools and services. Details regarding the impetus behind the alignment were communicated in a call with Rich Humphrey, director of the civil infrastructure line at Autodesk, and James Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of customer data and location intelligence, at Pitney Bowes Software. One of the more immediate customer-focused advancements will be the delivery of seamless connectivity to authoritative data sources for better modeling within Autodesk’s Infrastructure Modeler and other products.
Written by Ms Kelly Kuan Wednesday, 11 January 2012 11:51
A warm, humid Monday morning marked the beginning of an expedition to the Niah Caves, located in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Involving academics from several institutes of higher learning, hailing from three different continents, this study trip was a joint effort to achieve several distinct objectives, namely: to study the geological structure of the caves, to study the ecology of the inhabitants of the caves, and to gather three-dimensional (3D) measurement information for building a model of the Niah Great Cave.
Written by Jeff Thurston Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:31
Nexteq Navigation is a leading developer of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technology. This GNSS approach aims to provide high-accuracy positioning through the use of a single receiver involving satellite derived global corrections. The company's 'Freedom' technology provides improved results, with a 50% increase in accuracy - using internet communicated corrections in real-time. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Dr. Yang Gao, CEO of Nexteq Navigation Corporation in Calgary, Canada recently.
January 27, 2012
Garmin Transitions Map Provider in Australia and New Zealand
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Garmin has today announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its nuvi range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) to NAVTEQ from…
January 27, 2012
Remote Sensing, GIS Centre at TU Soon
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With the launch of Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System as a joint initiative of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Tumkur…
January 26, 2012
ORTHOSHOP Selects Leica ALS70 and RCD30 as First Digital Sensors
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Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that ORTHOSHOP Geomatics Ltd. has purchased the Leica ALS70 LiDAR and Leica RCD30 imaging camera as its first digital…
January 26, 2012
Applanix Releases Firmware Update for POS MV V5
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Applanix Corporation is pleased to announce the release of firmware update Version 6.24 for POS MV V5, Applanix’ industry-leading georeferencing and motion…
January 26, 2012
Leica Geosystems Call for Papers for "Hexagon 2012" International Conference
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Leica Geosystems is seeking papers for its three (3) tracks at Hexagon 2012, 4-7 June 2012, at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Following the…
January 26, 2012
MapQuest Launches New Mobile Web Experience
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MapQuest, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today launched an all-new mobile browser experience built using HTML5. Designed to be more like…
January 26, 2012
NASA’s New Satellite Captures Amazing Hi-Res Image of Earth
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You’ve seen Earth, but you’ve never seen it like this. Suomi NPP, NASA’s newest Earth-watching satellite, has taken a high resolution image of Earth, one of…
January 26, 2012
Freighter Oversupply Weighs on Shipowners and Banks
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The skyscrapers and immaculate beaches of this seaport look out on one of the world’s largest parking lots: mile after mile of empty cargo ships, as far as the…
January 26, 2012
Johannes Riegl Jr. Appointed to Executive Management Group
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In keeping pace with the success and growth of the corporation, RIEGL Laser Measurements Systems GmbH, Austria, announced today a new appointment to the…
January 26, 2012
Tekla BIMsight 1.4 Takes BIM to the Field with Windows Tablets
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Tekla BIMsight now offers a well-designed user interface for Windows tablet computers, thereby enabling use at construction sites. As before, it is still the…
- Japan - IEEE International 3D System Integration Conference
January 31, 2012 - February 03, 2012 - New Zealand - Shallow Survey 2012
February 04, 2012 - Australia - 6th Australian Stream Management Conference
February 06, 2012 - February 08, 2012 - Thailand - IPTC
February 07, 2012 - February 09, 2012 - UAE - 4th Annual International Urban Waterfronts Conference
February 12, 2012 - February 14, 2012 - Malaysia - UNRCC PCGIAP International Symposium
February 15, 2012 - February 17, 2012 - Australia - Precision Agriculture 2012 Annual Conference
February 16, 2012 - February 18, 2012 - NZ - Shallow Survey 2012
February 20, 2012 - February 24, 2012
