Geospatial Industry News - GIS Lounge

1Spatial delivers ship counter-piracy software to form Pole Star’s ‘Ship Security and Reporting System’ (SSRS)

GISLounge.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:50:04 +0000

19 March 2010, Cambridge, UK. 1Spatial is delighted to announce the delivery of ship counter-piracy software to Pole Star Space Applications Limited (UK) to form their new ‘Ship Security and Reporting System’ (www.ssrs.org). The current form of the ‘Ship Security Alert System’ (SSAS) regulation (SOLAS XI-1/6) requires ship security alerts to be routed only to the shipping company [...]

Luciad Mission Planning and Air C2 technology at MPUC 2010

GISLounge.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:36:09 +0000

High performance data fusion, graphical analysis and visualization software showcase Washington DC, March 19 2010 – Luciad, the number one supplier of software application development components for Situational Awareness applications in Defense and Security, will be showcasing its latest advances in high performance visualization solutions for Mission Planning and Air Command and Control at [...]

INTERGEO East 2010: World leading exhibitors make contacts

GISLounge.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:21:12 +0000

Istanbul/Karlsruhe, 19 March 2010. International companies like Leica Geosystems and Topcon/Sokkia, represented by its Turkish distributor Paksoy Tech.Serv.& Trade Ltd.Co., are among the exhibitors who will be using INTERGEO East as a global forum for making contacts. We are delighted that such renowned companies are taking part in INTERGEO East this year. It underscores the [...]

Earth from Space: Baltic sea ice

GISLounge.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:18:35 +0000

This Envisat image captures the Baltic Sea, with the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia (top), the Gulf of Finland (right) and the Gulf of Riga (directly below image centre) covered in ice. An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea separates the Scandinavian Peninsula (left) from the rest of continental Europe. The [...]

2nd CFP for the 5th International Conference on 3D Geo-Information

GISLounge.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:16:28 +0000

The 5th International Conference on 3D Geo-Information (3D GeoInfo 2010) will be held this year on 3-4 November and is carried out by the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Berlin University of Technology. The workshop is supported and jointly organised under the auspices of - ISPRS Working Group IV/8 - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), - European Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR), - German Society [...]

Portland State University Begins Enterprise GIS Implementation

GISLounge.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:03:43 +0000

Access to ESRI’s ArcGIS Server Supports Campuswide Use Redlands, California—March 18, 2010—Portland State University (PSU), a longtime user of ESRI’s ArcGIS software, has begun the implementation of ArcGIS Server to provide students, faculty, and administrators with the opportunity to use geographic information system (GIS) technology. ESRI is working with the university in this implementation to [...]

Regional point-of-sale turnover in Germany for 2010

GISLounge.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:55:03 +0000

This month’s map reveals the regional point-of-sale turnover at the level of Germany’s urban and rural districts (source: GfK GeoMarketing, GfK POS Turnover 2010). According to calculations by GfK GeoMarketing, Germany’s 2010 stationary retail turnover will fall slightly from the previous year’s level to €388.1 billion. The “GfK POS Turnover for the Retail Trade 2010″ study [...]

RapidEye Expands U.S. Team of Reseller Partners To Include Harris Corporation

GISLounge.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:54:14 +0000

Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, March 18, 2010 – RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that a partnership agreement has been recently signed with Florida-based Harris Corporation’s Government Communications Systems Division. Harris Corporation has a long and interesting history, beginning as the Harris Automatic Press Company in 1895. [...]

ESRI to Present Electric and Water Utility Solutions at DistribuTECH 2010 Conference & Exhibition

GISLounge.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:54:40 +0000

Redlands, California—March 17, 2010—As electric and water utility professionals come together this month at the DistribuTECH 2010 Conference & Exhibition, ESRI will share asset and outage management solutions and decision-making tools based on geographic information system (GIS) technology. The DistribuTECH 2010 Conference & Exhibition is scheduled for March 23–25, 2010, in Tampa, Florida. Visit ESRI at booth [...]

NVision Solution’s HazNet Receives Space Foundation “Certified Space Technology” Designation

GISLounge.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:56:19 +0000

Colorado Springs, CO – HazNet, the All Hazards Network web-based emergency management system (EMS) provided by NVision Solutions, Inc. has been designated a Certified Space Technology by the Space Foundation. HazNet combines the visual power of satellite-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping and analysis with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mandated reporting and organizational requirements of [...]