GEO: connexion back issues from December 2007:
Confused about your SDI? Where e-government data meets the spatial realm--confusion reigns.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Adoption in April 2007 of the European Union's INSPIRE Directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) has led to SDI being very much in the news once again--similar to the exposure the topic received back in April, 1994, when then US President Bill Clinton ...
Navman Wireless MDT 860.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Navman Wireless OEM Solutions added a new advanced Mobile Data Terminal, the MDT 860, to its product line. Designed to allow easy integration into telematics solutions with an external GPS, the MDT 860 allows system integrators to develop customized communication systems for a wide variety ...
GPS-Photo Link to rescue.
Dec 01, 2007 ... GeoSpatial Experts GPS-Photo Link software helped the US Forest Service create soil burn severity maps for the Cleveland National Forest following the California wildfires in October 2007. The software enabled Forest Service personnel to complete the damage assessment more rapidly than ...
WorldView-1 reaches FOC.
Dec 01, 2007 ... DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning, meeting all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView program. Full Operating Capability (FOC) with NGA began on November 17th. Following a ...
Google Maps My Location.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Google can now map your location using the new My Location service for mobile phones, via which you can see your location with or without GPS. Press "0" on your mobile handset and look for the blue dot that appears on the Google map, which corresponds to your GPS location. If you do not ...
Hemisphere GPS XF100 series.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Hemisphere GPS now offers their Crescent[R] GPS technology for handheld mapping in the new XF100 series DGPS receivers for ruggedized handheld computers. Designed to work with the TDS Recon[TM] and Juniper Archer Field PC[TM] models, the XF100 series is ideal for entry-level surveying and ...
ESRI and SQL Server 2008.
Dec 01, 2007 ... ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 will take advantage of new spatial technology in Microsoft's SQL Server 2008. Microsoft's "Data Platform Vision" recognizes the need to handle new types of information, such as RFID sensor information. SQL Server 2008 can handle non-relational data, providing native ...
Infoterra clutter datasets.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Infoterra Ltd launched a new UK and Ireland clutter dataset to extend its portfolio of geospatial solutions for telecommunications network planners. Based on the latest 2005/06 satellite imagery, the new clutter dataset provides telecom operators with the most current information ...
Oracle ISO 14001 certified.
Dec 01, 2007 ... In December, Oracle Corporation was awarded the international ISO 14001 environmental certification in 14 countries across Europe and Africa, including Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The ...
Long range Bluetooth module.
Dec 01, 2007 ... TDC launched a Bluetooth module with an open-field range of one kilometre from its internal antenna, the longest range of any Bluetooth module. The range can be further extended by adding high gain directional antenna. The EZURiO BTM402 BISM II module from TDC is a fully qualified ...
3D Laser MineMapper.
Dec 01, 2007 ... UK-based 3D Laser Mapping Ltd has developed a mining industry version of its renowned StreetMapper system. MineMapper uses the latest mobile laser scanning technology combined with high precision positioning systems to capture highly accurate and detailed measurements on the move. It is ...
TomTom and Google Maps.
Dec 01, 2007 ... TomTom has teamed up with Google Maps to allow users to search for and send business addresses directly from the Google Maps' website to TomTom devices. Google Maps local search pages have expanded their 'Send to' feature with the option 'Send to GPS'. With just one mouse click TomTom ...
QinetiQ teams with VeriTainer: real-time container scanning arrives.
Dec 01, 2007 ... QinetiQ North America has teamed with VeriTainer Corporation to provide its radiation scanning solution to ports around the globe. VeriTainer Corp, based in Fremont, CA, has developed the VeriSpreader, a crane-mounted device that scans containers in real time for dangerous radiation as ...
Sokkia SET X total station.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Sokkia BV announces the new Classic SET X total station, incorporating the latest technology with traditional surveying functionality. The Set X is available in 1", 2", 3" and 5" models for use in a wide range of positioning applications. The 1" and 2" models include Sokkia's absolute ...
Nokia N810 Wayfinder maps: free maps for GPS-enabled N810.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Wayfinder has announced a pre-installed free map application and voice guiding Wayfinder Navigator upgrade for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Users will get a quick and handy pocket map where one can position oneself on the map and see the direction and distance to any chosen location ....
Topcon GMS-2 Pro.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Topcon incorporates their industry leading dual-constellation satellite tracking into a small hand-held GNSS receiver, the GMS-2. An integrated electronic compass and digital camera powered by Topcon's imaging technology offers new possibilities and sets a new standard for GIS field ...
Mutoh announces Blizzard.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Mutoh Europe announced the new Blizzard series of high-performance variable drop mild-solvent printers, offering production output quality up to 40 [m.sup.2]/h and top speeds up to 80 [m.sup.2]/h. An addition to Mutoh's existing Spitfire Extreme mild-solvent printer family, the new ...
Yotta DCL cuts survey costs: Yotta's Nano hits the streets.
Dec 01, 2007 ... New software and high-resolution photography from Yotta DCL is changing the face of highway asset data collection. Nano is capable of surveying up to 200km per day, compared to traditional asset collection performed on foot at about 2km a day. Nano automates the asset capture process and ...
African remote sensing market.
Dec 01, 2007 ... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded the 2008 USGS Remote Sensing survey and analysis of the African Remote Sensing Market to Global Marketing Insights, Inc. following last year's study of Asia, North America and Europe, which was sponsored previously by the U.S. National Oceanic and ...
Lowrance debuts XOG.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Lowrance launched the XOG[TM] Cross-Navigation GPS, combining turn-by-turn automotive guidance with rugged, weatherproof outdoor travel functionality, for a total solution for the outdoors enthusiast and motorist alike. XOG is preloaded with comprehensive NAVTEQ[R] street map detail for ...
Mobile cityscape mapper: StreetMapper enhanced for cityscape mapping.
Dec 01, 2007 ... 3D Laser Mapping has developed a mobile cityscape mapper that captures highly accurate 3D modelling data of buildings and streets. The development is an enhancement to StreetMapper, the vehicle-mounted laser mapping system that is already well proven in terrain and highway mapping ....
Platinum Trimble GNSS System.
Dec 01, 2007 ... The Trimble R7 GNSS System is a flexible receiver configuration offering full GNSS capability--the modernized GPS L2C and L5 as well as GLONASS signals--in an ultra-rugged, lightweight full-metal housing. In these respects the unit is not dissimilar to the Trimble R8 GNSS System. However, ...
One World, One Year.
Dec 01, 2007 ... "One World, One Year" is a new service from Spot Image in partnership with Google. Spot Image is bringing fresh content to Google Earth with a selection of the best SPOT satellite imagery from all around the world. "One World, One Year" offers a selection of 50,000 SPOT scenes acquired ...
Flood forecast management software.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Wallingford Software announced release of FloodWorks v8.5, a modular software package used extensively for the real-time simulation and forecasting of extreme hydrological and hydraulic conditions within river basins, drainage systems and the coastal zone. With version 8.5 Wallingford ...
Trident + TDC mobile 3G solution.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Trident and TDC join forces to offer the ultimate mobile computing solution. The MMB Mobile from Trident is a dust, rain and splash resistant PC for harsh environments, powered by an energy efficient, VIA C7 1 GHz processor, with an IP65 rating and fan-less operation. With on-chip ...
Geostore assesses risk: infoterra GeoStore functionality demonstrated.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Infoterra Ltd launched its GeoStore Explore service to enable professional risk assessment based on location specific imagery and maps. For underwriters and loss adjusters, GeoStore[R] provides a browser-based decision-support application enabling annotation and measurement of features on ...
RoadPilot covers 11 European countries.
Dec 01, 2007 ... RoadPilot Ltd announced expansion of its database to cover roads in Sweden and Italy, which now contains speed camera data from 11 countries, with three more markets to be added within the next six months. Covering more than 2,900,000 km2 across Europe, and stretching from Tromso in Norway ...
New GPS technology patents.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Hemisphere GPS was recently awarded two new patents for innovative technology. The Method and System for Synchronizing Multiple Tracking Devices for a Geo-Location System patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,292,186) enables more robust and cost effective heading by using a single processor to ...
Kubit PointCloud Pro release 3.2.
Dec 01, 2007 ... kubit USA released version 3.2 of their AutoCAD applications PointCloud and PointCloud Pro, with numerous new functionalities bundled in PointCloud Pro that allow for a faster and easier post-processing of point clouds in AutoCAD. Planes can be adjusted by selecting a certain area of ...
Topcon total GTS-750 Series.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Topcon Europe Positioning announced the release of a new series of mid-range workhorse surveying total stations, the GTS-750 Series, that will replace the existing GTS-720 Series. Now Topcon's mid range conventional total station series include all the modern advanced interface features of ...
Leica GNSS QC V2.0 software.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Leica Geosystems introduced Leica GNSS QC V2.0, the latest version of the GNSS quality control and data analysis software, which includes real time analysis of residual ionospheric and tropospheric/geometric error across an RTK network. It also contains many improvements for reference ...
Market watch; GEO:connexion international takes a look at the navigation market skirmishes.
Dec 01, 2007 ... NAVIGATION MARKET DRIVERS More than a year ago (November 2006), Berg Insight forecast that "more than 60 percent of all WCDMA devices sold in 2010 will have integrated GPS/Galileo receivers. Demand is also driven by consumer applications such as navigation." A January 2007 by ...
People.
Dec 01, 2007 ... Dirk Gorter, formerly of Symantec Corporation, has joined ESRI's senior corporate management team in the newly created position of Director of Product Management. His remit is to implement new processes that will help ESRI create innovative geographic information system (GIS) software ...
Contracts.
Dec 01, 2007 ... QinetiQ North America's subsidiary Planning Systems Incorporated (PSI) was awarded a $15.4 million contract by the US Naval Research Laboratory, for research in the areas of ocean dynamics and prediction oceanography. This research will benefit the Navy's capabilities for real-time ocean ...
People.
Dec 01, 2007 ... BKS Surveys expanded its sales team with the appointment of Neil Hewat to the role of European Business Development Manager. Neil will assume responsibility for identifying and securing new business opportunities in key European markets ...
Awards.
Dec 01, 2007 ... The UK's Landmark Information Group won two prestigious marketing and PR awards for its 'Russian Maps' campaign, winning 'Best limited budget B2B Marketing campaign' at the UK national B2B Marketing awards and the coveted 'Best Use of Media Relations' Gold award at the Chartered Institute ...
People.
Dec 01, 2007 ... East View Cartographic, Inc. announced appointment of Paul Verhaere as Office Director for its European facility, charged with leading the opening of East View's newest international office in Europe, East View Information Services, B.V, located in Arnhem, The Netherlands. His initial ...
Agreement.(Company overview)
Dec 01, 2007 ... LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc. announced in October that Aeromap Technology Systems, a private company based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed an agreement to represent LizardTech software and to promote the leading geospatial image compression formats: the industry standard ...
Expansion.
Dec 01, 2007 ... ComputaMaps announced the launch of ComputaMaps-Europe, with offices based in Sophia Antipolis, France, whose mission is to better serve worldwide customers and develop long-term technical and commercial partnerships. ComputaMaps-Europe will offer unique enterprise geodata solutions, and ...
GI field looking the wrong way--again? Michael Gould muses on the future of the GI field and whether the industry is too introspective.
Dec 01, 2007; ... It is uncanny how outsiders often recognize the importance of novelties in a particular field of interest while specialists within that field are busy navel-gazing. A case in point, the anonymous editors at The Economist magazine have shown a profound ability to recognize, highlight, and ...
Power couples at Delaware County: Delaware County GIS puts ESRI GIS and Xplore pugged PCs to work.
Dec 01, 2007; ... More and more local governments are discovering how rugged mobile PCs can be used to streamline and improve the accuracy of their GIS data collection, according to Kyle Johnson, GIS Coordinator for Delaware County, Indiana. Johnson recently upgraded to Xplore's rugged, military-grade, ...
Unpredictable--but not unprepared: Autodesk's Dominic jukes says emergency planning needs user-friendly and affordable solutions, not complex and overly sophisticated ones.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Is the world a more dangerous place than it was a few decades ago? Certainly, the potential effects of climate change, coupled with the intensified threat of terrorism and serious crime have lead to the general perception that we live in precarious times. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
The mother of invention: part one; C. Jason Smith describes assembling a low-cost aerial survey system in the Alaskan wilderness.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The story of how an ingenious survey team assembled a low-cost, high-definition 3D aerial survey system using a leased helicopter, an off-the-shelf digital camera, and Topcon's new PI-3000 software. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hanging out of a helicopter with a five pound ...
The Hungarian ESRI user conference of 2007: Renata Dietz reports from Budapest on the 12th annual ESRI Hungary user conference.(Conference news)
Dec 01, 2007; ... On October 25, 2007, ESRI Hungary Ltd. organized its 12th annual local user group meeting at the Ramada Plaza Budapest hotel, attended by more than 200 participants from across Hungary. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ESRI Hungary Ltd. was established in 1989 under the name of ...
Reaping the rewards of satellite navigation: NAVTEQ's Eric Fumat asks if businesses are ready to reap the rewards of satellite navigation.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Over the last three years, satellite navigation has broken all growth records in the consumer electronics market and the sales of portable systems in Western Europe are expected to exceed 17 million in 2007. Consequently, the growing maturity of this market has reached the tipping point ...
OpenLayers and TileCache: in our 6th open sources column, Schuyler Erle introduces two important packages for web-based mapping.(Column)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The most important innovation in mapping on the World Wide Web in the last few years has been the emergence of the client-side JavaScript mapping API. Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, among others, now offer comprehensive hosted services for creating simple maps in a web page, and adding ...
Power of GIS aids real estate industry: STDBonline powered by ESRI's Business Analyst Online (bao) helps realtors save time and money.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Saving time and money is critical in today's fast-paced, highly competitive commercial real estate environment. Placing a tenant in the wrong location can cost millions of dollars, take months to recoup the loss, or even cause legal problems. Real estate professionals must be able to ...
A web application deployment model: serving the national dataset of the UK's OS MasterMap to the higher education community.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Web deployment and web hosted services are determining the future of GIS. However, to date, few real-life deployments are truly showing the scalability that can be achieved. When EDINA's new Digimap Service went live in September, it needed to go live to a community that, over 7 years, had ...
Unhcr uses GIS to manage camps: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) uses location-based information to better manage refugee camps worldwide.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly to lead and coordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. UNHCR's primary ...
3D Laser scanning revolutionizes Mapping: 3D laser scanning translates laser scanning and measurement technology research into real world applications.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Laser scanning and measurement technologies have long been the remit of academic based research programmes and high end engineering projects, however as with many emerging technologies as the costs fall the number of real world applications grow. Dr Graham Hunter, Managing Director of 3D ...
Surveying and positioning technology then and now: celebrating the 60th anniversary of positioning technology offers a fine opportunity to look to the future, as well.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The survey engineering and construction industries are poised for dramatic, positive change. To keep up with overwhelming demand for new infrastructure in the face of a limited workforce, construction firms are tasked with making major changes. To do so, the industry is turning to new ...
CoastGIS07 conference report: the editor reports on the 8th international GIS coastal conference--CoastGIS07--in Santander, Spain.
Dec 01, 2007; ... On 8-10 October, 2007, around 140 coastal science researchers and coastal environmental managers met on the delightful Cantabrian coast in Santander, Spain, for the 8th in the series of CoastGIS international conferences. The CoastGIS conference series began in 1995 in Cork, Ireland, with ...
Balancing conservation goals and agriculture: Christopher Ambe Ngwa describes how GIS and GPS help in Managing the Baleng Forest Reserve, Cameroon.
Dec 01, 2007; ... In the early 1980s, the Baleng Forest Reserve in Cameroon was massively invaded and partitioned into six farming blocs by the predominantly agricultural populations of the six neighbouring villages that surround it. In 2002, government officials and the local populations, through their ...
ESRI Eastern Africa User Conference: GIS at work in Eastern Africa.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The ESRI Eastern Africa User Conference, held in Kampala, Uganda, 13-14 September 2007, attracted around 140 participants from across Africa, Europe and the USA. The Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, Uganda provided a unique setting for the 2nd edition of this now annual event. People travelled ...