‘Vulcan 64-bit users will notice some small changes in workflows from the previous 32-bit version, mostly relating to setup for third party components such as ODBC drivers. For our own applications, it will be business as usual.’ Vulcan 8.1.4 includes new options for resource modelling and short term planner tools, along with composited models for stratigraphic deposits, stripping ratio tools for stratigraphic models and improved grade shells. The move to 64-bit is the first step in a range of improvements that are designed to bring more power to the Vulcan suite.

Astrium Services’ GEO-Information team has now taken satellite-based monitoring to a new level. Based on cutting- edge satellite imagery, standard and advanced image analysis, processing and interpretation, the new service Go Monitor provides high-quality change information for any area of interest worldwide on a reliable and cost-effective basis.

Realising the importance of Indian market, TomTom opened an expanded map making facility in Pune. Its new offices introduced state-of-the-art standards for delivering fresh, accurate navigation content and routing intelligence to India. The company delivers compelling new map products to the Indian consumer using multiple data sources including the latest crowd sourcing and community input tools.

The federal grid operator NIS GLONASS and German company Siemens have signed a memorandum on strategic partnership on creation in Russia the electronic system of charging tolls from cargo transport for damage, done to highways, innovation and venture news source UNOVA reports citing Siemens.

Norway intends to expand surveys of a previously disputed area in the Arctic offshore region bordering Russian waters ahead of potential oil exploration, Norway’s prime minister. The country’s seismic survey program began last summer in the boundary waters of the Barents Sea and will now move north, to an area east of the Svalbard archipelego, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said. The more northerly part of the survey program will start this summer and continue into 2013.

Blue Marble Geographics has announced the release of GeoCore 2012, the all-in-one data conversion developer toolkit for geospatial data. The updated version of GeoCore features GeoCalc 6.5, GeoTransform 6.2, and GeoTranslate 5.2. If desired, the latest versions of these software development kits are also available for individual purchase. When combined into GeoCore users can seamlessly work with any Blue Marble data conversion toolkit in the same development environment to build powerful geospatial software.

European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani has announced that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency.

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, released SuperSurv 3, supporting bilingual user interface, traditional Chinese and English, and global coordinate system. SuperSurv 3 is the mobile survey system that can be operated on Android mobile devices.
SuperSurv 3 mainly offers users with the convenience of data collection in field survey …

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, recently cooperates with Asia Pacific Telecom which utilizes SuperGIS Server 3 to establish an intranet-based service platform to effectively manage and integrate various types of GIS resources.
Employing SuperGIS Server 3 as the core of the GIS platform and SQL Server 2008 as the …

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, will release SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 by end of January, 2012. The newly-launched SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 offers a range of spatial modeling and analysis algorithms and a user-friendly interface to help users accomplish massive and complicated spatial analysis tasks.
With SuperGIS Spatial analyst …