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Bentley delivers 3D City GIS Software
Bentley Systems just-released V8i versions of Bentley Map, Bentley
Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher further
extend this portfolio to include new 3D City GIS capabilities.
www.bentley.com
China ensures a map …

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Satellite Navigation Event
Galileo Application Days, 3-5 March, kicks off the competition with a conference
and an ‘Application Village’, where demonstrations will occur. The annual
ESNC competition, or ‘Galileo Masters’ as it is also known, is designed to …

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Boeing ships GPS IIF satellite for launch
Boeing has shipped the first GPS IIF satellite aboard a Boeing-built C-17
Globemaster III airlifter. The new navigation spacecraft is now set to begin
final preparations for launch. Space Vehicle 1 …

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u-blox acquires patents for lowpower real-time GPS
u-blox has purchased 15 patents and patent applications from UK-based Air Semiconductor Ltd. The patents expand the company’s technology portfolio of lowpower GPS solutions.
www.u-blox.com
Rockwell Collins tracks …

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ISO gives car industry new interface
As the car navigation industry has grown so has incompatibility between navigation systems and the databases that store important location information. Additionally, there is a need to more easily develop …

Over the past 100 years the world’s total population has quadrupled – from 1.6 billion to 6.6 billion. (Footnote: Population Bulletin, “World Population Highlights: Key Findings From PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet” http:// www.prb.org/Articles/2007/623WorldPop. aspx.) In many parts of the world we see growing poverty. We now face increasingly worrisome resource constraints and environmental difficulties,

Astrium GmbH Services has won a €1 million contract with the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Supervisory Authority to undertake a key study, which will define the measures needed to defend Europe’s satellite navigation systems and services against radio interference. PROTECTOR is a European Commission FP-7 programme. The PRS and Operational Tool to Evaluate …

RapidEye announced that more than 6.5 Million square kilometers of its satellite imagery taken over North and South America is now available on the RapidEye Geodata Kiosk. Over 4 Million square kilometers of the United States can be searched for, purchased and delivered entirely online.
The additional 2.5 Million km² are some of the larger states …

Intermap has signed an agreement with Garmin. For three years, Intermap will furnish accurate 3D elevation data for the United States and Western Europe derived from its NEXTMap countrywide digital map database. Initial Garmin products utilising NEXTMap data are expected to reach the consumer market beginning in the first half of 2010.
With NEXTMap data, Garmin …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to help fishermen land a bigger catch. Satellite guided technology, provided by ISRO, will help fishermen to zero in on shoals of fish in Arabian Sea.
For a start, the Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation Ltd (KFDC) and ISRO are entering a tie-up for the satellite mapping of …