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Articles in September, 2005 issue of Geospatial Solutions
- Scanner-control software.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- URISA (the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association) announced the results of its 2005 Board of Directors election.(Around the Industry)
- RMSI completed a pilot catastrophe risk-assessment study on behalf of The World Bank.(Around the Industry)
- Pictometry International and Orion Technology have signed a business partnership agreement, allowing Pictometry's aerial imaging databases and software to be accessed through Orion's OnPoint Web-based GIS solution.(Around the Industry)
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Will virtual earth scale up the spatial market? Microsoft's recently launched MSN Virtual Earth Web site promises to drive geospatial technologies into a broader market than ever before, creating opportunities and benefits for consumers, as well as for th
by Puckorius, Timothy J. - Airborne scanner.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Ocala Electric Utility, a municipal utility serving 50,000 customers in Marion County, Florida, has migrated from ArcFM 8.3.2 to ArcFM 9.1.(Around the Industry)
- The State of Mississippi has approved a five-year master purchase agreement (MPA) that places ESRrs ArcGIS on the state's direct-purchase list.(Around the Industry)
- Contex Scanning Technology and Z Corporation announced that they will merge to create one color-scanning and three-dimensional printing company.(Around the Industry)
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Tracking cattle in the heartland: to limit the risk of introducing such highly communicable diseases as mad cow and tuberculosis into the U.S. food supply, the state of Kansas has built a spatio-temporal tracking system that traces the movements of cattle
by Stewart, Mary Ann - Mobile software development.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Full-color scanner.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- The Tompkins County Information Technology Services Office has selected Hitachi Software Global Technology and its HouseDiff service (an automatic change-detection engine) to improve the accuracy of the county's building data.(Around the Industry)
- News from the ESRI Show Floor.(Community Bits: COMPANY AND PEOPLE UPDATES)
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Formatting spatial data: Safe Software's Feature Manipulation Engine Suite is making great strides toward simplifying the conversion, translation, and modification of spatial-data formats.(First Impressions)
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ESRI previews magnificent seven--and so much more.(News Bytes: GEOSPATIAL NEWS, TRENDS, AND UPDATES)
by Barnes, Scottie; Stankiewicz, Amy - Handset software.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Tadpole Technology Group's GO! Sync (Redline) and GO! Sync (Mapbook) products have been certified compliant by the National Association of GIS-Centric Software (NAGCS) systems providers.(Around the Industry)
- LiDAR Services International (LSI) is the first airborne LIDAR (light detection and ranging) survey company in North America to acquire Riegl's Q-560 scanner, which incorporates full-waveform digitizing of all return laser pulses.(Around the Industry)
- The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association's (GSDI, www.gsdi.org) Small Grants Program for 2005 supports activities that foster partnerships, improve data compatibility and access, and increase political support for the development of spatial-data
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Is your organization ready for change? Incorporating new technology into your organization changes more than the tools people use. Managing the various expectations users have for the new technology--and attending to impacted business processes can be the
by Weber, Stan - Raster maps.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- XMap datasets.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Virzt has signed an agreement to acquire Curious Software.(Around the Industry)
- The City of Lincoln Council, in the United Kingdom, has selected Cadcorp's Spatial Information System software suite as its first corporatewide GIS.(Around the Industry)
- Scanning the Space Shuttle Discovery.(Community Bits: COMPANY AND PEOPLE UPDATES)
- Rugged mobile computing at ESRI.(News Bytes: GEOSPATIAL NEWS, TRENDS, AND UPDATES)
- Spatial data provisioning.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Georeferencing system.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- The Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing, and Processing (www.crisp.nus.edu.sg) signed a joint venture agreement with Spot Image to become a partner in Spot Asia, the regional Spot Image subsidiary located in Singapore.(Around the Industry)
- A joint project sponsored by Bentley Systems' BE Careers Network and Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft--a German development finance institution--is helping architecture and engineering (AE) schools in the Philippines to modernize their c
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Web-mapping hacks: two new O'Reilly titles help self-reliant readers teach themselves general GIS concepts--and ingenious hacks--with lessons based on free, open-source geospatial tools.(Net Results)
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Incorporating imagery.(Editor's Overlay)
by Barnes, Scottie - Integrated solution.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- Acting on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Open Geospatial Consortium (0GC) has signed an agreement with IONIC Enterprise for the purchase of that company's RedSpider products for deployment as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
- The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has selected NAVTEQ to collaborate with GIS Solutions and ESRI to develop and implement a comprehensive digital road-network database.(Around the Industry)
- Maptuit Corporation has released software to support next-generation devices for the trucking industry, including Qualcomm's OmniVision and DriverTech's Truck-PC DT 4000 devices.(Around the Industry)
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NASA's spatial incentive: Rep. Mark Udall is advancing a bill that tasks NASA with an educational-outreach effort to increase public awareness of the value and benefits derived from geospatial data.(Capitol Outlook)
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Locating football's fan base.(Mapplet: CARTOGRAPHY, ANALYSIS, AND BEYOND)
by Bawden, Tim; Disrude, Devon; Frenz, Bryan - Port management.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- BioMedware has received a $750,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue the "Geostatistical software for health and exposure analysis" project.(Around the Industry)
- On August 15th, GeoSpatial Training & Consulting will release its latest virtual training course, "Creating.NET Web Services with ArcIMS.".(Around the Industry)
- Quantapoint readies offshore-optimized Scanner.(Community Bits: COMPANY AND PEOPLE UPDATES)
- Survey says: results from our online poll.(News Bytes: GEOSPATIAL NEWS, TRENDS, AND UPDATES)
- Digital watermarking.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- DeLorme will supply its XMap/GIS Editor and XMap 4.5 software to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to expedite the processing of flood-zone determinations.(Around the Industry)
- Digital Mapping, Inc. (DMI) purchased Intergraph Corporation's Z/I Imaging DMC digital mapping camera, providing the company with a fully digital acquisition platform and production environment.(Around the Industry)
- RADARSAT International and several other companies in the MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates family have been rebranded and are conducting business under the common brand name MDA.(Around the Industry)
- Hexagon places second bid for Leica.(News Bytes: GEOSPATIAL NEWS, TRENDS, AND UPDATES)
- Landsat imagery.(Technology Showcase: NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES)
- 0sceola County, Florida, has selected Accela GIS for implementation in the county's Building and Development Department.(Around the Industry)
- ESRI is collaborating with Microsoft to develop applications based on Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS).(Around the Industry)
- Entergy Corporation has expanded its implementation of GE Energy's Smallworld geospatial software product suite by selecting the Cornerstone Gas Productivity Pack for its gas division.(Around the Industry)
- GITA releases 2005 Technology Report.(News Bytes: GEOSPATIAL NEWS, TRENDS, AND UPDATES)
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