Leica Geosystems announces digitizer for LIDAR
Leica Geosystems announced the introduction of a full-waveform digitizer, WDM65, designed specifically for use with its ALS-series airborne LIDAR Systems. www.leica-geosystems.com
V9 of H2ONET released
MWH Soft announced the worldwide availability of H2ONET Generation V9 for AutoCAD® 2010. www.mwhsoft.com
GPSDifferential™ module for MobileMapper™
The GPSDifferential module for the MobileMapper 6 from Magellan is a software option that has been integrated into the new version of DigiTerra Explorer 6 to provide sub-meter performance for DigiTerra Explorer users working with a MobileMapper 6 device. http://promagellangps.com
Trimble announces updated Software suite
Trimble has updated its entire portfolio of Mapping & GIS field and office software products. A key addition is Trimble® DeltaPhase™ technology, a new technique for improving the accuracy of GNSS code measurements. www.trimble.com
Colortrac’s SmartLF Ci 40e
Colortrac’s SmartLF Ci 40e document scanner is now available with a certified ISIS (Image and Scanner Interface Specification) driver. ISIS is a software standard for the acquisition, viewing, format conversion, printing and storage of documents in order to ensure consistent and reliable communication between hardware and software. www.colortrac.com
IDV Solutions releases Retail Analyzer
IDV Solutions released Retail Analyzer, an interactive mashup of enterprise and publicly available data built on Visual Fusion, Microsoft’s SharePoint, Bing Maps, and Silverlight. It is visual mashup software for the enterprise, a platform for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing SharePoint. www.idvsolutions.com
StreetMapper in China
3D Laser Mapping has delivered the first laser based mobile mapping system to China. StreetMapper 360, has been specifically designed for the rapid 3D mapping of highways, runways, railways, infrastructure and buildings. www.streetmapper.com
ERDAS releases IMAGINE, ER Mapper 2010 and LPS 2010
ERDAS released ERDAS IMAGINE® and ERDAS ER Mapper 2010 which also includes IMAGINE Feature Interoperability, a new module, and IMAGINE SAR Interferometry, a new collection of products in the IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite. LPS 2010 now includes ERDAS MosaicPro. This release also provides improved sensor support and increased performance. www.erdas.com
Major breakthrough in Tetrahedralization
Geo-Plus Corporation has developed a way of calculating the volume of complex structure using tetrahedra. It will change the way volumes are calculated in the civil engineering field. www.geo-plus.com
Tele Atlas and GPS Tuner agreement
Tele Atlas and GPS Tuner announced an agreement under which Tele Atlas supplies digital maps on GPS Tuner’s off-road navigation software – GPS Tuner Atlas. The software uses satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe.
Cambridge companies win INSPIRE contract
RSW Geomatics has been awarded a contract by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability. This contract is to ‘Develop Technical Guidance for the INSPIRE Transformation Service’ – enabling on line access to geographically referenced datasets from different countries and different environmental themes. www.rswgeomatics.com
SSTL delivers GPS receivers
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has delivered 18 SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the USA to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites. SSTL’s SGR-10 is a spacecraft orbit determination sub-system designed for small and large Low Earth Orbit satellite applications. www.sstl.co.uk
PBBI joins Software Alliance
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) has joined the Business Software Alliance in India. The Alliance is one of the largest groups of (mainly) US companies dedicated to promoting the protection of IP in Asia by attempting to ensure that government agencies and private organisations buy licences to the software they use. www.bsa.org
MetaCarta software release
MetaCarta has launched Geographic Search and Referencing Platform version 4.5. It includes Geographic Data Module upgrades, tagging enhancements, connector enhancements etc. www.metacarta.com
Navilock introduces GPS USB Stick
u-blox UBX-G5010 single-chip GPS receiver is at the heart of Navilock’s new USB GPS logger device designed for Windows XP and Vista. Navilock’s NL-457DL EasyLogger gives plug-and-play GPS capability to Google Maps and Google Earth for PC users. www.u-blox.com
New CAD Software for surveying
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has released SurveyMaster Lite – a new CAD-based desktop application for surveying and job site information editing and plotting. Survey calculations can be completed and uploaded to the field collector for stakeout and field verification. www.topconpositioning.com
Bentley PowerDraft for Mapping
Bentley PowerDraft for Mapping provides precise geospatial data creation, maintenance and analysis. Users can integrate data from a wide variety of geospatial data sources into engineering and mapping workflows. Multiple data types with varying coordinate systems are also transformed ‘on-the-fly’. It is a standalone application and does not require MicroStation as a prerequisite. www.bentley.com
Avenza® releases MAPublisher®
Avenza Systems Inc. announced the latest release of MAPublisher version 8.2 that supports the direct import of GIS data to Adobe Illustrator from ESRI geodatabases. www.avenza.com
SuperGeo supports research
SuperGeo Technologies supported a GIS workshop in historical research and cultural study in Taiwan. It offered numerous sets of SuperGIS software and CCTS Analyst to support the workshop. www.supergeotek.com
Safe Software support for Statistics Formats
Safe Software has added support for statistics formats in FME. It enables GIS professionals to move spatial data into statistics applications for analysis. GIS professionals can also use FME to bring geo-referenced statistical results back into their GIS so they can visualize this information. www.safe.com
SeaZone aids Aquatera
Aquatera and SeaZone have teamed up to offer a marine mapping and information solution to the offshore energy industry. The software combines different datasets including the latest marine geographic information data from SeaZone for areas that may be important for future marine renewable projects. www.aquatera.co.uk
eSpatial announces iSMART6
eSpatial and Geographic Business Intelligence announced the availability of iSMART6. This release provides new Geo-BI capabilities, advanced pure web GIS capabilities, and a new web user interface. www.espatial.com
WebEOC® Mapper Professional 2.1
ESi and 3-GIS have announced the release of WebEOC Mapper Professional 2.1 – the first product from their new joint venture company, Tucuxi. Decision makers at emergency operations centres can create a dynamic, geographically-based common operating picture without the need for specialized GIS or mapping experience. www.tucuxisoftware.com
LiDAR Data Management Software
The GeoSpatial Solutions division of Merrick & Company announced the online availability of the new version 6.0 Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software suite. The software suite is a Windows® application designed to manage, visualize, process, and analyze LiDAR data. www.merrick.com
Thin Multi-Positional GPS Antennas
Pulse announced the W4000 series of GPS active antennas. The thin, oval-shaped antenna can be positioned on the dashboard or window without concerns about orientation. Designed for in-vehicle mounting, Pulse GPS antennas combine a Pulse ceramic chip antenna with a low noise amplifier (LNA) resulting in an antenna profile that’s more than 50% thinner than standard GPS antennas while still maintaining an excellent level of performance. These antennas receive, amplify, and filter GPS signals for telematics applications such as in-car infotainment, navigation and location, intelligent vehicle safety, fleet management and tracking, asset monitoring, risk management, and pay-as-you-drive insurance applications. www.pulseeng.com
Integrated GLONASS/GPS Satellite Terminal
SkyWave Mobile Communications launched GLONASS navigation capability in its DMR-800L satellite data communication terminal. The DMR-800L with integrated GLONASS provides the capability to compute its exact location using either or both the GLONASS and GPS systems. www.SkyWave.com
ThinkGeo releases Version 5.0
ThinkGeo has released version 5.0 of Cygnus Track, its professional GPS tracking software platform. It introduces a new cloud-based hosting system. User interface upgrades deliver a larger map with more robust controls. www.thinkgeo.com
GMV supports 13 satellites launched in 2009e
Thirteen satellites using GMV technology have launched in 2009, including LRO, Herschel-Plank, NSS-12 and Thor 6. Four other satellites currently in orbit will add GMV’s monitoring and control systems to their operation. Finally, two additional launches incorporating GMV technology are scheduled before the end of the year. The latest satellite brought under complete control of GMV systems is the NSS-12 of SES World Skies (part of SES group), which launched in October of last year. The satellite features 40 C-band transponders and 48 Ku-band transponders as well as elaborate beam interconnectivity and C-/Ku-band cross-strapping.
Optech Extends Support to Include DiMAC Camera
Optech Inc has expanded support of the DiMAC Ultralight+ 60 megapixel medium-format digital mapping camera. It now supports the widest range of medium-format cameras of any lidar sensor manufacturer. Available for the entire suite of Optech ALTM™, the new DiMAC cameras will be fully supported by Optech Services, the 24/7 software and hardware support team.
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