GeoEye Expands Information Services Capacity

GeoEye has been making many moves since the landmark Enhanced View award. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Chris Tully, senior vice president of sales, recently about the company’s outlook and focus.
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Maps Prove Central to New Zealand Earthquake Response

A national state of emergency was declared with the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand in Feb. of this year. The impacts of the event were considerable even though the earthquake wasn’t the most severe on the Richter Scale. Among the damage tolls are a central business district with 1,000 of its 3,000 buildings expected to be demolished, 10,000 houses that must be demolished
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Measurement - From Excavation to Rooms to Geodesy

While satellites continuously circle the planet providing the latest details for highly accurate GNSS positioning, handheld devices are performing measurement tasks inside buildings that determine the length, height and angles for walls. Many people make measurements everyday for practical and useful purposes.
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OGC Technical Meetings - June 2011 in Taiwan

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that it will hold the next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings. The week’s events will run concurrently with the Third International AR (Augmented Reality) Standards Meeting, which the OGC is hosting with the support of the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meeting sponsors.
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Vector1 Media Welcomes Roger Longhorn with the Launch of SDI Magazine

Vector1 Media, publishers of V1 Magazine and Asian Surveying & Mapping, are pleased to welcome Roger Longhorn, an international expert on the development of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), as founder and editor of SDI Magazine (http://www.sdimag.com/). This expansion of Vector1 Media adds an important area of international coverage to this four-year-old online-media company.
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JAXA - Hosting Sites for Multi-GNSS Monitoring Network

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is pleased to announce the launch of the first step in the establishment of the Multi-GNSS Monitoring Network. The project is a contribution to the establishment of global, continuous observation network for multiple GNSS constellations in collaboration with the International GNSS Service (IGS). The project is now open for applications for 60 hosted sites for multi-GNSS receivers and antennas to be provided by JAXA.
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Kalam Suggested ISRO to Build Satellite Service Station

Former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam Thursday suggested that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) build a satellite service station in geo-synchronous orbit as he saw an opportunity for it in this field. Kalam, himself an acclaimed rocket scientist, said many satellites in the geo-synchronous orbit face problems relating to power and fuel after three or five years in service.
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Viet Nam - To Boost Rural Areas, says PM

Building a new rural model is an urgent mission and a strategic policy for the sustainable development of Viet Nam, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the launching ceremony for the Central Council for Emulation and Awards in the capital yesterday. During the ceremony, the Prime Minister launched new emulation movements calling all people to build a new rural model.
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2011 Be Together: The Bentley User Conference 'Keynote Report'

This highly interactive conference, whose theme was “Sharpen Your Edge,” gave Bentley users the opportunity to advance their skills, network with their peers, and gain competitive advantage in the marketplace as they attended multidisciplinary sessions and workshops – choosing from among the more than 350 available in nine conference tracks.
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SuperGIS Mobile Engine App - Regione Marche in Italy

Regione Marche is a regional government sector set up in 1970 to decentralize power from Rome to Italy's 20 regions. It carries out a wide series of legislative, administrative and executive functions with powers exercised within the limits of the Italian Constitution. The procurement of HMMs is for convenient data collection and update for civil service.

The New Leica 3D Disto: Measure – Project – Record

Large room? No square corners? Slanted walls? Lots of detail? Difficult to reach? No need to worry: the rugged Leica 3D Disto measures it all. A combination of distance and angle measurements determines the precise position of each point, targeted with the integrated camera and captured with the laser beam.

Fujifilm - NAVTEQ Maps GPS Enabled Digital Cameras

NAVTEQ is now supplying map and POI (points of interest) data for Fujifilm's FinePix F550EXR and FinePix XP30. The FinePix F550EXR comes with a built-in GPS functionality, while the FinePix XP30 is a water, shock, dust and freeze proof model featuring built-in GPS functionality.

Leica ScanStation C5: Scalable, Entry-level Laser Scanner

The compact, scalable Leica ScanStation C5 provides professionals with a combination of legendary Leica Geosystems quality scan data with a significantly lower cost of scanner ownership.

Petrovietnam Marine Shipyard Co. Standardizes on Intergraph SmartMarine 3D

Petrovietnam Marine Shipyard Joint Stock Company (PV Shipyard) has standardized on Intergraph SmartMarine 3D as its preferred 3D offshore engineering and design solution.