GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to build GeoEye-2, the Company’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite system. Lockheed has already begun purchasing long-lead material and labor for the design, engineering and manufacturing of the satellite and the associated command and control system.
Matt O’Connell, GeoEye’s chief executive officer and president, said, …

Fujitsu has integrated u-blox’ GPS technology in their ultra-mobile notebook with street navigator. The LifeBook UH900 mini-notebook with 5.6” multi-touch screen display is packed with features, pre-loaded with Garmin Mobile PC navigation software and has a built-in u-blox’ NEO-5Q GPS module. The palm-sized device weighs a little over one pound
“The LifeBook UH900 running Windows 7 …

Proposed increases for import duties on navigators supporting only the GPS system are expected to be agreed on by the end of this year, Kommersant business daily reported, citing Alexander Gurko, head of the Navigation and Information Systems (NIS), the Russian federal operator of GLONASS.
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The Central and Southern Andes GPS Project (CAP) team led by Mike Bevis at Ohio State University have computed the coseismic displacement field associated with the recent M 8.8 Maule earthquake in south-central Chile. Peak measured displacement is 3.04 meters near the city of Concepcion, Chile.
While the CAP results were obtained from processing days worth …

Bionatics is to launch LandSIM3D version 2, offering new features to answer the growing needs of city planning and landscape design professionals looking for powerful simulation and decision making tools able to guaranty a sustainable development.
LandSIM 3D v2The version 2.0 facilitates the real-time loading and display of complete 3D cities or large territories made of …

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai project, which involves the comparison of data collected through field surveys with existing records and data procured using GPS, is aimed at creating an integrated digital base map for Mumbai. The civic body has proposed to use this map as a reference for the city’s future development.
However, the project …

A bill to authorize the program known within the geospatial community as “Imagery for the Nation” is being presented for introduction in Congress, MAPPS announced.
“‘Map it once, use it many times’ is not only a mantra in the geospatial community, but it is technologically feasible through the use of satellite and aerial imagery and GIS. …

Intergraph® has introduced a newly enhanced geospatial solution to enable the efficient production of high-quality map products by U.S. state departments of transportation (DOTs) and military and national mapping agencies around the world.
Organizations rely on Intergraph GeoMedia® Map Publisher for enhanced cartographic capabilities and high levels of map production automation to produce series and ad-hoc …

Safe Software announced that its spatial extract, transform and load (ETL) solution, FME®, can now seamlessly integrate Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® data into GIS. These new capabilities will help municipalities more efficiently leverage contractor data submissions to maintain their GIS dataset for meeting their federal asset management requirements.
To fulfill government regulated mandates related to infrastructure …

The new release of ESRI ArcGIS Explorer builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable globe viewer with GIS functionality.
The release features a new Analysis Gallery that allows users to directly connect to and use geoprocessing services. To use …