GEO: connexion back issues from February 2009:
VGI, PPGIS and decision makers: does the 'status' of GI affect how it is perceived by decision makers?
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) e-mail list recently had an exchange of messages regarding collection of geospatial data by geo non-professionals, often ordinary citizens. Comments on the impact that such information has on decision makers in government range from positive experiences ...
New software from Applanix.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Applanix new POSPac[TM] MMS (Mobile Mapping Suite) 5.2 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Aided Inertial post-processing software includes full land-based mobile mapping support, making POSPac MMS 5.2 fully capable of processing mobile mapping data obtained from air, sea, and land ...
eSpatial iSMART 5.5.
Feb 01, 2009 ... eSpatial announced the availability of its latest corporate Web GIS software product iSMART[R] 5.5, the most advanced Web GIS platform available in the market today. Already adopted by customers for projects in the US and UK, the latest iSMART software suite offers online GIS solutions ...
Topcon's X-TRAC 7 technology: Topcon upgrades robotic total stations.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Topcon's new X-TRAC 7 is a complete system enhancement, improving robotic and LPS tracking, RC-3 "Quick Lock" remote control, radio, and data collector performance. X-TRAC 7 technology is now included on all new Topcon 9 Series and Imaging Station (IS) robotic family total station systems ....
Nokia series 40 6th Edition SDK.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Nokia released the new software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 6th Edition mass-market mobile devices, providing application developers and network operators with new tools to create unique applications and services for the high-volume feature phone market worldwide. Series 40 6th ...
Oce Premia class.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Oce announced the launch of Oce Premia Class, a specially designed program aimed at giving its printing systems a second life. Since the Seventies, Oce has proven its commitment to using recyclable materials and remanufacturing, revising and reconditioning its printing systems. Market ...
LDT520 laser digital theodolite.
Feb 01, 2009 ... SOKKIA's new LDT520 5" digital theodolite is equipped with a telescope with laser beam emission capability. A significant evolution over the previous model LDT50, the LDT520 offers a 600-meter beam range from an easy-to-handle Class 3R laser. Dust and water protection is at the top of its ...
Satnav for shoppers.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Researchers at the University of Salamanca in Spain have developed a hand-held device that maps out the fastest route for you to get all your shopping done and can tell you where to find the best bargains at the same time. Developed by Javier Bajo, was tested at the Tormes shopping mall in ...
Desktop-laptop-pocket: the Nokia N97: The world's most advanced portable computer?
Feb 01, 2009 ... Nokia announced the Nokia N97, which combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favourite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia's flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology--including multiple sensors, ...
California Marine Map.
Feb 01, 2009 ... MarineMap is an impressive Google Map mashup of the California coastline and marine protected areas (MPAs), with a large number of features which manages to include a massive amount of data. MarineMap's numerous data layers which can be turned on or off, selected by a Data Layers window ....
Velodyne Lidar launches in Europe: the compact Velodyne HDL-64 High Definition Lidar unit.
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Velodyne HDL-64 High Definition Lidar sensor's 64 lasers contained within a fast-spinning unit to create a true three dimensional terrain map marks a real revolution in the field of lidar technology. Using the HDL-64 Lidar mobile sensor, a corridor of 220m can be mapped in great ...
ERDAS supports OpenstreetMap.
Feb 01, 2009 ... ERDAS announced that OpenStreetMap-a free, editable map of the world--has been added to ERDAS TITAN 2009 as the default basemap in the TITAN Viewer ERDAS TITAN enables users to easily make their geospatial data available, while retaining digital ownership rights. Using a 3D virtual globe, ...
UKHO Bilateral Agreement with Chinese MSA.
Feb 01, 2009 ... The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) signed a new Bilateral Agreement with the Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) of The People's Republic of China. This arrangement between the UKHO and China MSA refers to the distribution of ENC cells produced by China MSA through the UKHO's ...
SERVIR-Africa launched.
Feb 01, 2009 ... In November, the SERVIR-Africa team officially launched the project at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), based in Nairobi, Kenya. SERVIR integrates satellite observations and predictive models with other geographic information (sensor and field-based) to ...
Topocad version 11 released.
Feb 01, 2009 ... In December, Chaos systems AB released Topocad version 11, the CAD software for surveying, mapping and design, Under Topocad's continuous development cycle, every Christmas there is a new version, with a new version number, that contains changes that require new file formats. Topocad has ...
Pirates monitored from space.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Piracy at sea has reached new heights in modern times due to armed groups from Somalia seizing commercial vessels in the region of the Horn of Africa. The most notorious attacks of the Somali pirates were the seizure of the Ukrainian dry-cargo freighter "Faina" carrying arms and the Saudi ...
Free satellite imagery for researchers.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Satellite imaging provider DMCii is to provide free DMC constellation satellite imagery for scientists to support global environmental monitoring projects for five UK and five Spanish science projects. The provision of data will be coordinated by DMCii in the UK and Spanish company Deimos ...
Trimble introduces Juno: pocket-sized devices packed with features.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Trimble introduced its next generation of durable, lightweight field computing devices with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) technology--the new Trimble[R] Juno[TM] SB and Juno SC handhelds. These pocket-sized devices are packed with features and functionality. In addition to ...
EU-ESA space council meets.
Feb 01, 2009 ... European Ministers in charge of space activities within ESA and European Union Member States met in Brussels on 26 September 2008 for the 5th Space Council--the joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at Ministerial Level, as defined in the Framework ...
Gaia Support Package from Carbon Project.
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Carbon Project announced an expanded level of service now available to developers and users alike. The Gaia Support Package enables customers to engage Carbon Project engineering staff to address specific extensions, changes and enhancements to its Gaia and CarbonTools products. This ...
Blue Marble Desktop 1.1.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Blue Marble Geographics released Blue Marble Desktop 1.1, which features numerous new and updated tools for flexible geospatial data management. Working with coordinate sets or vector/raster data, the Blue Marble Desktop allows users to address their data conversion issues in the same ...
Magellan RTDS software.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Magellan's new PC software called Real Time Data Server (RTDS) offers land surveying companies the opportunity of using GNSS equipment to build their own direct IP RTK corrections server. The RTDS software will collect corrections sent by a GNSS base station and act as a gateway to make ...
SOKKIA SP1 pipe laser: robust, watertight and affordable.
Feb 01, 2009 ... SOKKIA BV announced release of the new pipe laser SP1, which provides high precision in grade settings thanks to the absolute encoder system that detects the laser beam angle with a greater accuracy than other sensors. A robust and watertight housing, bright laser spot, affordable cost and ...
E-Corce hi-res Earth mapping by 2014.
Feb 01, 2009 ... CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, the government agency responsible for shaping and implementing France's space policy in Europe, has come up with an innovative satellite remote-sensing system capable of generating a high-resolution picture of Earth on the Web, refreshed every ...
Earthwhere, Google Earth solution.
Feb 01, 2009 ... SPADAC has been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) of Panama to develop and implement an enterprise solution for spatial data management in partnership with Google Earth[TM] through its Latin American reseller Gtt NetCorp Latin America. Building upon its ...
DA42 MPP certification in Russia: the DA42 MPP carries a range of sensing instruments.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Diamond Airborne Sensing recently received certification for the DA42 MPP in surveillance and laser scanning configuration for Russia. The DA42 MPP is able to carry daylight and thermal cameras, and is linked to ground stations with satcom and/or line of sight downlink systems. Survey ...
GEOVIRTUAL OGC Strategic partner.
Feb 01, 2009 ... GEOVIRTUAL became the first European Strategic Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international organization developing standards for geospatial technologies, such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems), location services, Earth browsers and sensor webs. GEOVIRTUAL seeks ...
Sony Ericsson supports Open Handset Alliance.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Sony Ericsson announced in December the extension of its portfolio strategy to include support for the Open Handset Alliance and confirmed its intention to develop a handset based on the Android ...
ESA global land cover map.
Feb 01, 2009 ... ESA's global land cover map, ten times sharper than any previous global satellite map, is now available to the public online from the GlobCover website. It is the highest resolution land cover map that has been completely validated ever released. Sixteen experts validated the map using ...
New Russian navigation satellites.
Feb 01, 2009 ... A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched on 25 December 2008 with three GLONASS SV satellites for Moscow's navigation system, aimed at competing with US and European systems. The satellites were placed into orbit after the rocket blasted off from Russia's Baikonur pad in Kazakhstan at 1043 ...
France added to NEXTMap Europe.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Intermap Technologies announced that its NEXTMap[R] Europe program had reached another significant milestone in December by making elevation data for the entire country of France commercially available for the first time. Uniformly accurate 3D digital elevation models and high-resolution ...
SAT-Nav for HGV drivers: naveo's latest sat-nav solution.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Navevo unveiled its new ProNav PNN-200 sat-nav solution for drivers of heavy goods vehicles and vans, which delivers new levels of performance and is even easier to use thanks to a revised user interface, enhanced Routing-Engine together with free map and transport data updates for new and ...
CREASO introduces SARscape 4.1.
Feb 01, 2009 ... When developing SARscape 4.1, CREASO put special emphasis on meeting the expectations of the ever-growing worldwide SARscape user community: Apart from supporting the most current SAR satellites, i.e. RADARSAT-2 and Cosmo SkyMed, the latest version offers a variety of new functionalities ...
Applanix POS and OmniSTAR XP.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Applanix POS[TM] AV products now support on-board OmniSTAR XP[TM] real-time differential GPS corrections using a purpose-built GNSS+L Band aircraft antenna and an embedded BD960 GNSS receiver. OmniSTAR XP is a Satellite Based Augmentation Service (SBAS) that provides real-time corrections ...
Nokia Maps and Ovi by Nokia.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Nokia released the latest version of its mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, as well as its personalized online mapping experience on Ovi by Nokia. This combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi is the first free service that allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their ...
TomTOM Route Planner.
Feb 01, 2009 ... TomTom announced the introduction of the TomTom Route Planner, a free Web-based routing application available (routes.tomtom.com). Currently in a BETA test program, the online Route Planner allows users to easily pre-plan a route to obtain precise driving directions and arrival times ...
Jupiter 30 xLP for PASSPORT.
Feb 01, 2009 ... Navman Wireless OEM Solutions Jupiter 30 xLP GPS module has been incorporated in the new ESCORT PASSPORT 9500ix and PASSPORT 9500ci models. Providing ultra-high signal access sensitivity, the Jupiter 30 xLP combines up to 30% greater power savings and the new 65nm SiRFstarIII ...
5 millionth update logged.
Feb 01, 2009 ... TomTom announced in mid-December 2008 that members of the TomTom Map Share community had made a total of five million map updates worldwide, the result of the rapid adoption of TomTom's proprietary technology by the Map Share community, which has grown to more than ...
Financial news roundup.
Feb 01, 2009 ... SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. announced in December that it had completed the spinoff of its Stockholm operations, back into In a SEC filing in December, SiRF announced a new corporate cost reduction and restructuring plan that will included reduction in force, consolidation of offices and ...
Wayfinder Systems AB.(FINANCIAL NEWS Roundup)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Wayfinder Systems AB Board of Directors unanimously recommended the public offer from Vodafone Europe B.V. of SEK 12.00 cash per share for each share in Wayfinder. The Offer represents a premium of: * 252.9 % compared to the closing price of SEK 3.40 for Wayfinder's shares on 8 ...
Autodesk, Inc. completed the acquisition of iLogic software.(FINANCIAL NEWS Roundup)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Autodesk, Inc. completed the acquisition of iLogic software and related technology from Canada-based Logimetrix, Inc. and substantially all of the assets of BIMWorld, a privately-owned business specializing in the production and distribution of branded BIM content for building product ...
Yet more research from Berg Insight indicates that while PND shipments in Europe.(MOBILE NEWS)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Yet more research from Berg Insight indicates that while PND shipments in Europe and North America will continue to grow into the next decade, eroding prices are expected to cause a decline in revenues in 2009, citing fierce competition and commoditisation of entry-level devices as the ...
Tele Atlas.(MOBILE NEWS)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Tele Atlas announced a reduction in its worldwide workforce on 8 December 2008. Tele Atlas was able to redeploy a significant number of people to new roles in the company where ever possible. Ultimately 125 positions will be eliminated worldwide, representing six percent of its worldwide ...
Tenet.(PEOPLE)
Feb 01, 2009 ... TENET announced the appointment of Bill Hodson as Managing Director. After helping to build the UK business of SAIC, a large San Diego-based systems integrator, Bill spent two years at PA Consulting in London supporting the UK MoD and ...
GeoEye, Inc.(CONTRACT)
Feb 01, 2009 ... GeoEye, Inc. announced a Service Level Agreement (SLA) modification to the company's existing NextView contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The SLA is for $12.5 million per month for a period of one year. GeoEye will provide satellite imagery products to the NGA ...
Infotech Enterprises Ltd announced the appointment of Professor J. Ramachandran as additional director on the board.(PEOPLE)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Infotech Enterprises Ltd announced the appointment of Professor J. Ramachandran as additional director on the board. Prof. Ramachandran is BOC Chair Professor of Business Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. A qualified Chartered and Cost Accountant, Professor ...
Another Infotech appointment is Mr. Nobuyuki Kawai as Vice President.(PEOPLE)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Another Infotech appointment is Mr. Nobuyuki Kawai as Vice President--Sales and Representative Director, for its subsidiary Infotech Enterprises Japan Limited, where he will be responsible for business development in Japanese markets and ...
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).(OGC MEMBERSHIP)
Feb 01, 2009 ... The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that GeoVirtual, SL (Spain) has joined the OGC as a Strategic Member, the highest level of membership in the OGC. To advance OGC program objectives, Strategic Members provide significant resources in the form of funding and other in-kind ...
eSpatial.(AGREEMENT)
Feb 01, 2009 ... eSpatial and RSI Softech India India Pvt Ltd announced the signing of an exclusive Reseller Agreement at the end of December. RSI Softech will act as master distributor for iSMART", eSpatial's leading GeoSpatial software suite for development of integrated, enterprise grade spatially ...
Wayfinder has extended its agreement with Sony Ericsson to enable Wayfinder to preload a richer.(COOPERATION)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Wayfinder has extended its agreement with Sony Ericsson to enable Wayfinder to preload a richer, longer term navigation offering on a range of current and future Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The Wayfinder Navigator application allows consumers to download Tele Atlas-based maps of more than ...
Safe Software announced that Netezza.(PARTNER)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Safe Software announced that Netezza, a global data warehouse appliance company, is partnering with Safe Software for spatial ETL. Safe's FME platform will provide the spatial data loading capabilities for Netezza Spatial, an extension to Netezza's leading data warehouse appliance ....
2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year.(AWARD)
Feb 01, 2009 ... Based on its recent analysis of the global positioning system (GPS) market, Frost & Sullivan presented u-blox with the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year, in recognition of its technology innovation and ability to satisfy the diverse needs of its ...
NERC embraces OGC standards: interoperability is key to the UK'S natural environment research council (NERC).
Feb 01, 2009; ... NERC's goal is "to deliver the scientific evidence needed for governments, business and society to respond urgently to the increasing pressures on natural resources and global climate". Data is a critical part of this evidence, and NERC coordinates a network of operational thematic data ...
Surveying a nation: case study Iraq: building from zero: creating Iraq's new geospatial reference system there is one commodity in Iraq that tops oil for importance: water. when you live in an arid region, water is always a concern, and getting the water you have to where it is needed for agriculture, industry, and consumer consumption is primary concern.
Feb 01, 2009; ... It is not difficult to understand why the Ministry of Water Resources is so important to Iraq--and especially now that the infrastructures need to be maintained and rebuilt even while a war still rages. Thus, following the 2003 Iraqi ground mission, Coalition forces quickly set ...
Remote sensing in terrain analysis: Scanex R&D centre describes how remote sensing data is used for terrain stability analysis as part of their work in engineering and geomorphologic survey of mountain regions.
Feb 01, 2009; ... Plotting special analytical maps is one of the most important stages in engineering and geomorphologic surveys. Making large-scale geomorphological maps requires knowledge of origination, structure and stability of terrain forms as well as that of terrain dynamics and transformation ...
Vehicle navigation market sector trends: our editor looks at developments in technology and industry structure in the vehicle navigation market in 2008.(Company overview)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Effective vehicle navigation depends, upon three things--(1) hardware that can pinpoint a vehicle's location, (2) data about roads and (3) software that puts (1) and (2) together to offer driver's reliable driving instructions according to their preferences (most direct route, most ....
Editor's choice.
Feb 01, 2009 ... EDITOR'S CHOICE: A rare image of a virtually cloud free Western Europe captured by Envisat's Medium Resolution imaging Spectrometer-(MERIS) instrument in September 2008 working in Full Resolution mode (spatial resolution 300 ...
Mapping the future with unmanned aircraft: Nick Miller explores the feasibility of unmanned aircraft for surveying tasks from the ASTRAEA programme.
Feb 01, 2009; ... For previous generations, the ability to survey land from an aerial perspective was an unreachable ambition. Many dreamt of flight, but it wasn't until the 18th Century that this actually became a human reality when people were able to take to the skies for the first time. Later ...
Intelligent pipeline integrity management: managing the technical integrity of a pipeline with an "out of the box" GIS and geodata-based pims framework.
Feb 01, 2009; ... The requirements on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have originally been focused on data capturing and mapping functionalities. Current analyses state clearly that 80% of all technical business processes are related to geospatial questions. That's why an intelligent Pipeline Integrity ...
Photo-textured building models: luigi colombo and barbara marana on 3d photo texturing as used at the geo-technology Laboratory (geolab) at the University of Bergamo, Italy.
Feb 01, 2009; ... Documentation of ancient buildings is more and more frequently performed nowadays through virtual modelling and spatial relationship with web geo-visualization systems, like Google Maps, Microsoft Live Maps, and Yahoo Maps. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Geometric and ...
Open sources #17: collaboration for all: the open Geospatial Consortium supports strong collaboration with the open source community.
Feb 01, 2009; ... John Donne wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself ..."Donne's meditation suggests that human beings do not thrive when isolated from others, and the same is true for standards organizations. In today's information and telecommunications environment, any standards organization that ...
Bundaberg Regional Council GIS update: Trimble technology provides asset mapping with centimeter accuracy for Australian Council.
Feb 01, 2009; ... For years now, local government organizations around the world have been using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to better manage assets across a geographically dispersed region. Few have gone to the great lengths of the Bundaberg Regional Council, however, to ensure that their ...
Roger Tomlinson on GIS history and future; In Jim Baumann's fourth thought leader' interview, he discusses the history and future of gis with its creator, Dr. Roger Tomlinson.(Interview)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Baumann: You are commonly referred to as the "father of GIS." Can you tell me how GIS processes have developed historically? Tomlinson: The concept of map overlays has been a standard geographic analysis technique for a long time. For example, immediately after World War II, the Royal ...
Lidar technologies for forestry work: trimble nomad offers a sophisticated laser scan process that enables data collection of every tree in the forest.
Feb 01, 2009; ... When most people think of Norway, the first thing that comes to mind is often cold, snowy weather and a landscape dotted with fiords and mountains. What many people don't realize is that 37 percent of the surface area of Norway is covered by forest. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
International conference report: "from imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" - a report on the VIIIth International Scientific and Technical Conference.(Conference notes)
Feb 01, 2009 ... The VIIIth International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" conference was held on the shores of the Adriatic Sea in Porec, Croatia, from 15-18 September 2008. The Conference was organized, by Racurs Co., (Moscow, Russia) with ...