GEO: connexion back issues from December 2008:
Work smarter--work better: recession looms--hard times are ahead--how will our industry respond?
Dec 01, 2008; ... As the world's economies enter what many respected economists are predicting will be the worst recession in more than 50 years, what is the potential impact on the geomatics industry? Hard times are probably ahead for software and hardware vendors and service providers--from GIS to GPS to ...
Mobile GIS for non-experts: TerraGo Mobilefor non-GIS specialists.
Dec 01, 2008 ... TerraGo Technologies released TerraGo Mobile, the first geospatial mobile application designed specifically for non-GIS users. Compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 operating systems, the solution delivers interactive, intelligent maps and images in geo-enabled PDF format directly to ...
New release of AtlasMobile API.
Dec 01, 2008 ... AtlasCT released version 3.2 of its AtlasMobile API, an advanced package designed for fast development of location-based applications in Java ME. The new version of AtlasMobile API is the most advanced in the market and most unique by its small footprint, high performance and low memory ...
Intermap to introduce fused DEM Product.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Intermap Technologies is introducing a new dataset for the United Kingdom that leverages the advantages of DEM fusion: NEXTMap [R] Britain 2. The company's original NEXTMap Britain dataset was collected using IFSAR in 2002 and 2003. NEXTMap Britain 2 fuses Intermap's IFSAR elevation data ...
Unrestricted access to Landsat archive.
Dec 01, 2008 ... In November, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) announced that scientists and decision-makers around the world will soon have unrestricted access at no charge to the Landsat archive, the world's most extensive collection of continuously-acquired remotely sensed satellite imagery ....
RapidEye web Image Gallery.
Dec 01, 2008 ... RapidEye announced the opening of a new Image Gallery on their website, which will feature high resolution satellite images taken from around the world by RapidEye's constellation of five spacecraft. RapidEye plans to update the Image Gallery regularly as new, exciting images become ...
Computerized mining Cadastre for Mongolia.
Dec 01, 2008 ... GAF is to design and establish a new automated and countrywide Mining Registry and Cadastre System for Mongolia, beginning work on-site in November 2008. The project, under the Governance Assistance Program (GAP), aims to improve governance in the mining sector, through the establishment ...
Tools for Carbon Accounting.
Dec 01, 2008 ... A suite of online Carbon Accounting tools for forest carbon sink projects is being developed by Landgate, Western Australia's Land information Authority. Landgate's Acting Chief Executive Mike Bradford said CarbonWatch was the result of requests from the forestry-based carbon offset ...
First commercial vehicle-to-grid test.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Xcel Energy is performing the USA's first large test of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in Boulder, Colo., as part of its SmartGridCity [TM] project. PHEVs with V2G are able to both charge from and discharge power back to the electricity ...
Oce ColorWave 600 wins awards.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Oce has already received multiple awards for the new Oce ColorWave 600 just months after its launch: the iF Product Design Award in Germany; the Good Design Award in Japan; the Editor's Choice Award in the UK; the MUST SEE 'EM Award at GRAPH EXPO in the US. These prestigious awards ...
Safe software for CityGML.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Safe Software announced that their software platform FME now offers read and write support for CityGML 1.0, which enables users to convert CityGML data into the formats their applications use and also allows them to convert their own data into the official CityGML exchange format for ...
Quova marketing location intelligence.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Quova, Inc. has integrated their GeoPoint IP geolocation data into WiredMind's Web analytics software application, which provides Website owners with details about the customers visiting their Websites, and adds an additional analytical tool to help understand the effectiveness of their ...
Blom launches online platform.
Dec 01, 2008 ... In November, Blom Aerofilms launched its online platform BlomURREX to deliver high-resolution oblique and vertical images of cities, towns and urban areas, to meet growing demand for online access for the delivery of high quality images of over 1000 European cities to either desktop or ...
Emerging market mobile devices.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Nokia introduced a range of affordable mobile devices and innovative new services specifically for people in emerging markets. In addition to Nokia's lowest cost handset to data, as well as its first handset for emerging markets with an integrated digital music player, Nokia unveiled a ...
New GML loading tool.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Snowflake Software announced its GML loading tool--Go Looder 1.5-with enhanced support and progressive functionality. With major performance improvements--up to a 50% increase in initial load and change only update--GO Leader leads the way in GML loading. Snowflake has always taken a ...
NAVTEQ map for Argentina: 200 000 km of Argentina road network covered.
Dec 01, 2008 ... NAVTEQ announced the release of navigable map coverage in Argentina. The initial map includes over 200,000 km of road network across the entire country with up to 260 attributes per road segment. Including information such as direction of travel, number of lanes, speed limits, and turn ...
Nokia gears up Mobile Millennium.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Nokia launched Mobile Millennium in November, a public pilot that will collect and study traffic data received from GPS-enabled mobile devices. Nokia Research Center is collaborating with UC Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), the California Department of ...
Real-time Location for personnel safety.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Areva NP, world leader in design and construction of nuclear power plants, has deployed the Ubisense Real-time Location System for a critical safety application within their new central archive complex in Erlangen, Germany. The archive stores plans and other printed building documents for ...
GPS-enabled mobile phones: u-blox chips for Chinese mobile phones.
Dec 01, 2008 ... u-blox announced that Longcheer Holdings Limited, a leading Chinese mobile phone design house, has entered into cooperation with u-blox to bring innovative GPS-enabled mobile phones to the market. Longcheer will integrate u-blox' single chip UBX-G5010 into a series of handsets, enabling ...
Bentley V8i software portfolio.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Bentley Systems announced V8i, a most comprehensive software portfolio for infrastructure in a single release. Encompassing products for all of the solution communities served by Bentley, the V8i portfolio leverages and extends core capabilities of its new interoperability platform to ...
Spatial Data Integrator 1.3.0 released.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Camptocamp SA released SDI (Spatial Data Integrator) ver 1.3.0, an Open Source Spatial ETL (Extract Transform & Load). SDI, developed by Camptocamp, is based on Talend Open Studio, the Open Source data integration software, for read/write common GIS formats, manipulating spatial features, ...
Micro unmanned aerial systems; UAVS just got a lot lighter!
Dec 01, 2008 ... micro UAS--micro unmanned aerial systems--are being increasingly utilised for Geomapping and other GIS applications. Microdrones by MW Power Systems Limited are the industry leader in GPS stabilised UAV platforms to the Emergency Services--Fire and Police, and other 'appropriate' ...
Magellan launches new firmware.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Magellan announced a new release of firmware for the highly successful ProMark 500 GNSS survey receiver. New features include backward compatibility with the support of Ashtech RTK data correction format, the ability to use the GSM data mode to receive RTK corrections from a GSM-equipped ...
realXtend open source virtual world platform.
Dec 01, 2008 ... realXtend open source virtual reality platform adoption is accelerating, extending the support of an interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds with rich, multi-user experiences. Nokia and the City of Oulu, Finland have joined the supporters of the realXtend project aimed at developing ...
DiMAC's ULTRALiGHT in North America.
Dec 01, 2008 ... DIMAC Systems launched DiMAC ULTRALIGHT, the smallest of the DiMAC [TM] (Digital Modular Aerial Camera) product family, to North American customers during the Pecora ASPRS Remote Sensing Symposium 2008. It consists of just a single Camera Module that captures a footprint of 7,200 pixels ...
DAT/EM TouchPad and TouchScreen.
Dec 01, 2008 ... DAT/EM Systems International announced the new TouchPad and TouchScreen key devices that allow the user to program a virtual key layout or use an existing DAT/EM Keypad [TM] overlay. Responsive to just the touch of a fingertip, the two new surfaces provide a slick and durable alternative ...
New additions to GNSS range: SOKKIA's GSR 1700 CSX tracks GPS and GLONASS signals.
Dec 01, 2008 ... SOKKIA BV released the GSR 1700 CSX L1 GNSS receiver, providing users with an economical, robust and cable-free solution. This GNSS capability, along with its ease of use and affordability, make it the ideal product for a novice, while expert users will take advantage of the receiver's ...
Optech helps discover snow on Mars.
Dec 01, 2008 ... The Optech-designed lidar system aboard NASA's Phoenix mars Lander has detected snow on Mars. The discovery was made near the Martian North Pole on 25 May 2008 as the lander searched for water and environmental habitats that could harbour life. The snow was detected from clouds about 4 ...
Geospatial intelligence software.
Dec 01, 2008 ... BAE Systems released the latest version of its geospatial intelligence software, providing upgrades that allow users to reduce dependency on multiple tools to record and analyze ground features. The company's SOCET GXP [R] v3.0 software combines image analysis and geospatial production ...
Infoterra launches LandBase.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Infoterra launched its new high-definition land cover mapping product, LandBase, which combines the latest object based classification technology and digital aerial imagery to provide a land cover product allowing viewing down to 1:5000 scale/property level. This enables the extraction of ...
CycloMedia covers traffic signs in Flanders.
Dec 01, 2008 ... The Flemish Minister of Mobility, Kathleen van Brempt, gave CycloMedia the signal to begin making an inventory of all the traffic signs in Flanders. After completing a successful pilot, CycloMedia has been chosen to visualise around 5 million traffic signs. At the end of August 2010 the ...
OGC sensor web enablement update.
Dec 01, 2008 ... The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. in collaboration with the Fisheries & Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Alliance for Coastal Technologies organized a one day workshop "From Sensors to Applications: Advancing the Interoperability of Ocean Sensors" as part ...
Financial news roundup.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... TerraGo [R] Technologies announced Q3 2008 sales were up 93% over last quarter and customer count has grown to more than 700 organizations ...
Wayfinder Systems.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Wayfinder Systems interim financial report shows net sales for the first nine months of 2008 amounted to SEK 42.3 (60.8) million. Service revenue, Wayfinder's core business, totalled SEK 27.5 (36.2) million. The drop in revenue for both is due to significant one-time orders during 2007 ....
GeoEye, Inc.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) reported revenues for Q3-2008 at $35.9 million, compared to $53.8 million for Q3-2007. Primary reason for the revenue decrease is a reduction in orders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Delay in launching its GeoEye-1 satellite probably ...
Autodesk, Inc.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) reported revenue of $607 million for Q3-fiscal 2009, an increase of 13% over Q3-fiscul 2008. GAAP diluted earnings per share in the third quarter increased 29% to $0.45, compared to $0.35 per diluted share in the third quarter last year. Non-GAAP diluted ...
Mobile navigation industry update.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... A Berg Insight report forecasts that the number of mobile subscribers downloading navigation routes using their mobile handsets is expected to grow from 16 million users in 2008 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.9% to reach 70 million users in 2014. Revenues from subscriptions ...
Partnership.(GEOMATICS INDUSTRY UPDATE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... DigitalGlobe announced in October that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. for a multi-year contract under which DigitalGlobe will provide Microsoft's Virtual Earth with its premium, high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will ...
BAE Systems.(PEOPLE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... BAE Systems named Nigel Lambton as director of sales for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, representing the GXP line of business. Lambton will report to Dan London, vice president, sales & marketing, GXP. His new role focuses initially on the EMEA defense and intelligence ...
Topcon.(PARTNERSHIP)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Topcon has formed a partnership with the monitoring software provider Dr Bertges from Germany and the precise inclination sensor manufacturer Wyler from Switzerland. This cooperation brings together the technology and expertise from all three companies to offer the best, most versatile ...
Outstanding Achievement.(AWARD)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Oce has won an Outstanding Achievement award from Buyers' Lab Inc (BLI) for its Gemini instant duplex technology found in the Oce VarioPrint 6250 printing system. The Gemini technology, which involves imaging both sides of the paper at the same time using dual-imaging organic ...
SOKKIA and GEODATA.(PARTNERSHIP)
Dec 01, 2008 ... SOKKIA and GEODATA have joined forces to offer a tailor-made solution to the tunnelling and underground survey market. The resulting SOKKIA Total Stations with EUPALINOS software from Austrian based company GEODATA is a flexible, modular and integrated total surveying solution that guides ...
Thoralf Obst.(COMMUNITY SERVICE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Thoralf Obst, Managing Director of the GEOMAGIC GmbH, presented a cheque over 1650 Euros to staff members of the non-profit organisation FAIRbund e.V.A project called "Kinder FAIRstehen" (understanding children) will be supported with this money. Since 2005 the ...
Pitney Bowes MapInfo.(PEOPLE)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Pitney Bowes MapInfo appointed Stephen Deaville to Sales Director for the Retail, Insurance and Banking industry, based at Pitney Bowes MapInfo in Windsor. A strong technical sales leader with in-depth experience of solutions-based selling of technology within large enterprise ...
Not going with the proverbial flow; how an active nonprofit organization is utilizing LiDAR to restore neglected streams and wetlands.
Dec 01, 2008 ... America's streams and wetlands are vanishing at an astounding rate. In fact, it was explained to Congress nearly 20 years ago that the lower continental 48. states have lost an estimated 60 acres of wetland every hour ever since the United States came to be. The Appalachian region alone ...
The role of GIS in successful franchising; how a major franchising business sees GIS as a strategic solution to help its business grow.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Have you ever wondered what goes into figuring out where to locate a restaurant? Certainly there are hungry people everywhere, so why is . one site better than another? That question is one that Dave O'Brien, real' estate manager at Culver's, a successful Wisconsin-based quick service ...
Off the map in Egypt: a premier team of Yale Egyptologists uses GPS technology to solve mysteries in the Western Desert.
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the heart of the Egyptian Desert, Dr. John Coleman Darnell of Yale leads a team of Egyptologists along the ancient caravan routes of the deep desert using a Topcan Total Station. Hundreds of viper trails covered the sand before them. The Egyptologists could only hope the serpents ...
An exciting start!
Dec 01, 2008; ... Work has now started on the largest construction project in Europe. The rewards will be high; for example, the Beijing Olympics generated revenues of the order of $5bn. The 2004 Olympics resulted in the Athens transport infrastructure--a wonderful modern metro system reducing congestion ...
High technology on four wheels: Laser Scanner, GPS receiver and distance measurement device.
Dec 01, 2008 ... To measure roads, railways or tunnels accurately the Laser Scanner is mounted on wheels--i.e. a car. While on the move the laser scans its surroundings helically and creates a three-dimensional picture from the captured data. In order to obtain a colour picture of the road, digit cameras ...
Profile surveying with a 3D Laser Scanner: tunnel construction surveying.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Intermetric, employing approximately 100 surveyors, is one of the largest Geotechnical and Geoinformatic firms in Germany. The standard tools of the trade include tachymeter, GPS receiver and digital level. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the construction of tunnels the use ...
Justification and advantages: a user view.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Only a 3D Laser Scanner is capable of capturing an entire object surface and profile in such a short time. In addition features such as niches, stalactites even the labelling can be recorded. With a resolution from 6000 x 6000 points at 120,000 points per second a 4 minute scan captures ...
Perfect 3D road mapping.
Dec 01, 2008 ... Besides offering consultancy services, Siteco srl of Bologna, Italy, has long been involved in planning and implementing IT systems. Road-Scanner is the evolutionary pinnacle of their mobile mapping systems. It builds on Siteco's expertise in GIS (Geographical Information System) ...
Road scanner: technical characteristics: acquisition time positioning rotation velocity.(SURVEYOR'S CORNER)
Dec 01, 2008 ... * To build Road-Scanner, Siteco was looking for a scanner that offered speed, accuracy, detail and ease of use. Stability and powering options were also important criteria. Hence the use of the FARO Laser Scanner. FARO's Laser Scanner is 100 times faster than time-of-flight scanners and ...
Laser scanning Q&A with FARO: ask questions, find answers and share knowledge.(SURVEYOR'S CORNER)(Interview)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Q: What is laser scanning? How is it used and where? A: Laser scanning can be compared to digital photography in that, put very simply, it enables a user to take a 3D image. At FARO our aim is to make scanning as simple as taking holiday photographs. Of course, the ...
Keeping track of Olympic developments; Carl Hancock of Aligned Assets, explains the vital role in any big or small development projects of the gazetteer systems such as local land and property gazetteers (LLPG) and local street gazetteers (LSG), which are now used by all local authorities.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Anyone who has ever moved into a newly built property will most likely have found teething problems associated with organisations not yet knowing that the property exists. Post goes missing, the broadband can't be connected and setting up a gas account is a nightmare. We take ...
Reducing complexities in construction; Gavin Lewis of Blom Aerofilms explains how centimetre accurate oblique aerial photography will contribute to the Olympian construction effort in London.
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Olympic Games has a heritage which dates back to before Roman times, It is a globally recognised arena which dominates the sporting calendar every four years. London won the 2012 bid not only for the good of sport, but as a promise to renew and regenerate the Thames Gateway, offering ...
Help is at hand: increasingly, expert suppliers are offering cost-effective consultancy--make the most of it says Claire Bass of CADLine.
Dec 01, 2008 ... The larger the project, the more scope there is for things to go haywire. But there's also room for far more innovation, better collaboration plus synergies and economies of scale. It seems that there are two areas which typically start to gnaw away at the core of a large scheme ...
Learning to share--sharing to learn: Dominic Jukes of Autodesk talks about how technology addresses the challenge of the ageing workforce.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Most people remember their first job. There was always someone, usually sitting in the corner, who seemed older and wiser than the rest. They were always the ones everyone turned to when they needed the answer to a vexing work question. Somehow they always had the answer--but, when asked ...
Making games secure.
Dec 01, 2008 ... THE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL OLYMPIC SAFETY AND SECURITY STRATEGIC STEERING GROUP HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE PROCESSES ARE IN PLACE FOR SECURITY GOVERNANCE. THE MULTI-AGENCY OLYMPIC SECURITY DIRECTORATE (OSD), LED BY THE HOME OFFICE AND HOSTED BY THE METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE, IS ...
Managing project communication.
Dec 01, 2008; ... ASHURST, DAMIAN FROM OCE', DISCUSSES HERE THE ISSUE OF INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION IN CONNECTION WITH LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. EMAILS ARE CERTAINLY THE MOST COMMON METHODS FOR SHARING INFORMATION BUT ALSO OTHER SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE FTP SITES ARE BECOMING FAMILIAR, ESPECIALLY WHEN SIZE ...
A distributed Olympics? The 2012 games organisers should adopt a distributed model for their data as well as for the events themselves, says James Cutler.
Dec 01, 2008; ... The 2012 London Olympics has become somewhat of a focal point for a variety of location related tools and technologies. As the countdown continues, and indeed accelerates under recent government initiatives to pump prime the economy, there is a need for solutions that meet real and present ...
Bringing 'reality' to the design office: ideal for restoration and regeneration projects--have 3d laser scanners finally earned their place in the surveying portfolio?(DATA HARVESTING)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Not so long ago, 3D laser scanning was regarded as a new technology unlikely to provide a return on investment for any company unless it regularly undertook specialist work such as complex detail surveys, for example, as-built surveys of oil rigs or chemical plants, or the recording of ...
Mapping the Olympics.
Dec 01, 2008; ... INTEGRATED MAPPING AND OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IS PROVING ITS WORTH IN LARGE SCALE SITE PROJECTS SUCH AS LONDON 2012. BRIAN DIXON OF CENTREMAPS, WHICH DELIVERS ONLINE MAPPING, COUPLED WITH BLOM OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, EXPLAINS HOW DESKTOP BASED SURVEYING TECHNIQUES ARE BEING USED ...
Get me to the show on time!
Dec 01, 2008; ... TODAY, INTERNET AND MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPERS ARE ALL STRIVING TO MAKE ANYTHING DISPLAYABLE ON A MAP, AND TO CREATE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WORLD TO SHOW END USERS WHERE THEY ARE, AND WHAT'S OF MOST INTEREST AROUND THEM. RIK TEMMINK'S QUICK BRAINSTORM! This virtual ...
Mediation--why and how: in this article independent commercial mediator, Amanda Bucklow, describes how mediation can turn the tide on spiralling costs for large it infrastructure projects.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Conflict, disputes, claims are a feature of business whatever the economic climate. However, the risks of being involved in truly damaging disputes arc even greater now. Cautious banks and investors, delayed payments, difficult negotiations about variations, public perceptions about value ...