Partnering on HMA-I Project

ERDAS and Spot Image announce a partnership, increasing both organisations' involvement in the Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility - Interoperability (HMA-I) project. The European Space Agency (ESA) issued the HMA contract in 2005, defining the architecture and interoperability standards for harmonized data access across the ground segments of the European and Canadian missions contributing to the ESA's Global Monitoring for Environment & Security (GMES). ERDAS developed the EO Proxy Framework to expose legacy catalogs through Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) HMA interfaces. Spot Image is already contributing to ESA's Global Monitoring for Environment & Security (GMES), with plans to implement the... (read more)

2009-05-05 10:07:38

MAGNUM G600 Colour Scanner

Contex (VA, USA) announces the new MAGNUM G600 Scanner, a 54” wide scanner that incorporates technology for enhanced scan speed, 12 inches per second (ips) in monochrome and a superior colour speed of 3/ips, with image quality that rivals the original. MAGNUM G600 features advanced 48-bit CCD technology with 120,000 pixel image capture. Additional features include, scan accuracy of 0.1%+- 1 pixel, Automatic Thickness Adjustment (ALE) for media up to 15mm thick, All wheel drive that cares for originals and flexible connectivity with both FireWire and USB 2.0 for ease of installation and use. The scanner’s 54” imaging area handles... (read more)

2006-08-02 12:00:00

Matrox Releases Windows 64-bit Display Drivers

Matrox Graphics Inc. (Canada) has announced the release of its new 64-bit SE drivers for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, for the Matrox Parhelia, Millennium P-Series, QID, and Millennium G-Series product families. The Matrox 64-bit SE drivers support both AMD64 processors and 64-bit Intel Xeon processors. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is designed to provide faster performance with increased reliability and flexibility for today's most demanding users, enabling them to run memory and calculation-intensive applications and processes more efficiently. This new processor architecture can also run new 64-bit applications as well as most existing 32-bit applications for maximum flexibility... (read more)

2005-04-26 12:00:00

Entergy Expands Its Implementation of Smallworld Geospatial Products

GE Energy (GA, USA) has announced that Entergy Corporation (LA, USA) has expanded its implementation of the Smallworld geospatial software product suite by selecting the Cornerstone Gas Productivity Pack for its Gas Division. Additionally, the company has upgraded its electric operations to the Smallworld Core Spatial Technology 4 application. Entergy will have the opportunity for significant cost savings by reducing custom code maintenance and creation through the Smallworld 4 Application Framework architecture (SWAF), providing fully supported, standardised spatial applications which can easily be accessed and reused in disparate business processes. Reusing existing code and selecting GE Energy’s Smallworld Cornerstone Gas... (read more)

2005-08-15 12:00:00

ESRI for Global GIS Enterprise License

Newmont Mining Corporation has selected ESRI as its enterprise GIS software provider. Newmont Mining is the second largest gold producer in the world, with operations on five continents. The global enterprise license agreement will enable Newmont Mining to deploy the full suite of ArcGIS products in an open, scalable, and standards-based GIS architecture that will integrate with and leverage existing Newmont Mining IT resources. The ESRI global enterprise license replaces Newmont Mining’s previous GIS, offering greater opportunity for more integrated and robust applications. ESRI products will allow the company to create distributed data repositories, which will replicate data from central... (read more)

2006-09-22 12:00:00

Eight New FARO Software Solutions for LS

FARO Technologies, Inc. (Germany) has released a set of specialised software packages that enhance the capability of its Laser Scanner LS product line. “The software packages enable us to cover at least 80% of the LS’ broad market potential,” FARO President and Co-CEO Jay Freeland said. “Each package offers a specialised solution for professionals in Architecture, Historical Preservation, Forensic Investigation, Tunnel & Mining, Product Design and Quality Assurance, as well as Process and Power Plants, Re-Engineering and Asset Management. In order to deliver the most effective solutions to our customers, we partnered with the leading software in each industry. The... (read more)

2006-08-29 12:00:00

Esri Joins Global In-Location Alliance

Esri has announced that it has joined the worldwide In-Location Alliance. Esri joins a growing number of companies that have come together to drive innovation and market adoption of high-accuracy indoor positioning and related services. Esri will help to define standards for indoor mapping and logistics across many industries including health care, higher education, finance, government, and retail. This is an exciting, new frontier for GIS and location analytics, and Esri is able to help the global community indoor logistics with standardised, high-accuracy mapping and analysis tools, said Wolfgang Hall, Esri's industry manager for logistics and supply chain management. The... (read more)

2013-07-02 08:30:00

GEO Call for Participation in GEOSSPilot

OGC has announced that a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 2 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) has been issued by the GEO (Group on Earth Observations). Phase 1 of the AIP demonstrated GEO Portal and Clearinghouse solutions. Phase 2 will establish "operational, research and technical exemplars," services that support the GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas (application domains). The CFP invites GEO Members and Participating Organisations to: - Provide components and services relevant to GEOSS "Societal Benefit Areas" (application domains). - Participate in interoperability testing of the services including use of the... (read more)

2008-07-15 10:12:58

Romania EU Land Regulation Standards

The Romanian government is implementing a Land Parcel Information System/Integrated Administration and Control System (LPIS/IACS) based on ESRI’s ArcGIS Server software. The implementation is expected to meet stringent European Union (EU) agricultural land regulations, which is essential for the country’s admission to the EU. ESRI’s ArcGIS Server and GAF AG's LaFIS, an agricultural information and decision support system, will be installed in the country's agency of payments and interventions in agriculture (APIA), including its 210 local offices. A large percentage of Romania’s population is actively involved in agriculture. In the first phase, only authorised employees from the 210 local offices... (read more)

2006-10-25 12:00:00

Faraz Ravi New Chairman of ASTM Committee on 3D Imaging Systems

Faraz Ravi, Bentley’s director of product management for point clouds, has been appointed chairman of the ASTM International Committee E57 on 3D Imaging Systems. Formed in 2006, Committee E57 develops standards for 3D imaging systems, including optical range cameras and laser scanners that capture point cloud data. Ravi co-founded Pointools Ltd, the hardware-neutral provider of point cloud software that Bentley acquired in 2011 to help it establish point clouds as a fundamental data type across all of its platforms, applications, and information management services. Commenting on his new appointment as chairman of the ASTM International Committee E57, Ravi said that... (read more)

2012-03-29 01:41:19