Finder Technologies and Auto Page have announced that the two companies have finalized an agreement for Auto Page to distribute the Auto-Finder to automotive aftermarket accessory retailers and installers through their network of independent sales representatives.
The Auto-Finder is a new category of family safety products featuring Finder Technologies’ micro antenna system. The Fynder technology platform …

Leica Geosystems announced a new version of its IPAS GNSS-IMU processing software. The new Leica IPAS Freebird is designed to improve flight economy and simplify GNSS-IMU processing. Leica IPAS Freebird no longer requires a continuous lock of satellites and frees up your mission planning by allowing much tighter turns between flight lines. The results are …

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced a new laser scanner, the GLS-1500, that speeds up point cloud collection – 30,000 points per second – in an ‘all-in-one’ design to reduce the amount of equipment needed in the field.
“The GLS-1500 is designed to provide quick and hassle-free setups to save time and improve productivity,” said Fred Moser, …

Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract by the Airports Authority of India to automate air traffic control services at the Chennai International. Raytheon will install AutoTrac III, its next-generation air traffic management system, to help reduce delays in aircraft arrival and departure. The new system will also have real-time meteorological information to assist air …

CARIS announced the release of Spatial Fusion Enterprise (SFE) 5.2 as part of its Ping-to-Chart™ product suite. SFE is Web-enabling technology for geospatial information that aims at leveraging the investment of collecting and maintaining data by making it more visible and accessible to stakeholders. Web-mapping has been around for more than a decade and recent …

The forewarning of Pacific Rim nations before the Chilean tsunami arrived was proof that tsunami alerts are doing their job, said Reinhard Kind of the German earth sciences institute GFZ at Potsdama German who is building a similar system in the Indian Ocean.
Apart from ravaging the coast of Chile, the tsunami does not appear to …

Brazil and China have agreed to launch the fourth China Brazil Environmental Remote Sensing (CBERS) satellite in 2011. At the initial phase (1988-2003), two satellites, CBERS-1 and CBERS-2, were sent into space. The most significant feature of this agreement was the transfer of more responsibility to the Brazilians. China was responsible for 70 percent of …

SPOT 4 satellite operations have been resumed after orbital parameters corrections. Regular imaging and data transmission from SPOT 4 satellite was suspended in December 2009 for correction of orbital parameters. An orbital manoeuvre of SPOT 4 was required due to the approach of two operational satellites SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 flying the similar sun-synchronous …

The Sri Lankan Government has completed mapping of all forests in the country except in the Northern region barring encroachments by unauthorized persons, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. All forests were mapped out and boundary stones were laid to prevent any encroachments in the future. The mapping out of forests in …

One of the priority tasks of Ukraine’s state policy in the sphere of space activity is to form groups of remote Earth-sensing satellites consisting of 11 spacecraft in orbit by 2030, according to a plan for state policy in the sphere of space activity until 2030, which has been introduced for public discussion by the …