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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Bentley Announces Project Finalists in 2011 Be Inspired Awards Competition

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the project finalists in the 2011 Be Inspired Awards competition and the four winners of the 2011 Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving and sustaining the world’s...

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Bentley Systems Receives 2011 Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it has received the 2011 Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership. The award recognizes Bentley’s long-term, broad support of Oracle...

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Digging Into History

A team of 17 Australian, New Zealand and Turkish archaeologists, historians and researchers used non-invasive, advanced mapping, and GPS technology to uncover more than 100 artefacts from the Gallipoli battlefield in the second season of fieldwork undertaken...

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Insitu Pacific Monitors Marine Mammals with ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System

 Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has concluded the second phase of a landmark trial conducted in partnership with Murdoch University that aims to determine if unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are...

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Terrasolid Training Event in Jakarta, Indonesia

Terrasolid is organizing a training event for users in South Asia and Australia. The training takes place the week before Asia Geospatial Forum. Terrasolid is also attending the the exhibition. There are many new features like mobile mapping...

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

The South China Sea is Not China’s Sea

It would be rather absurd if England were to try to claim sovereignty over most of the English Channel, Iran the Persian Gulf, Thailand the Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam the Gulf of Tonkin, Japan the Sea of...

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

NZ Government GNSS CORS

The NZGD2000 Government CORS provides the locations of GNSS Continuously Operating Reference Stations operated by GNS Science under the GeoNet project (www.geonet.org.nz). Coordinates are from the LINZ Geodetic Database, in NZGD2000. These are split into several different...

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Cadastre Customer Service Dept Opens in Oman

Planning and surveying transactions include construction maps and sketches attestation, paper and digital sketches attestation, renewal and issuance of cadastral surveys and all kinds of transactions of social housing. Read More

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

GLONASS Hits 5-Meter Accuracy With Latest Launch

Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system has been upgraded to a precision of up to 5 meters after the successful launch of the 24th GLONASS satellite. The GLONASS-M blasted off the Plesetsk spaceport at 00.15 Moscow time on Monday...

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

2011 Base Station Shipments Will Be Up 14%

The world economy may be teetering on the brink of a double-dip recession, but business is booming for wireless infrastructure vendors. According to Jake Saunders, vice president of forecasting, "Base station installations in 2011 will total at...